Columbia lands after flawless shuttle test flight
Astronauts Ken Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield returned the shuttle Columbia to a perfect Edwards Air Force Base touchdown on the Fourth of July. President Reagan lauded the mission as a national celebration and urged a permanent space presence as Challenger prepared to ferry to Florida for a future voyage.
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Ken Mattingly
Henry Hartsfield
Reagan
Columbia
United States
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Space
Desert
Earth
Florida
White House
Challenger
U.S
Israelis Blast PLO in Artillery Clash Near Beirut
Shells hit near Lebanon's presidential palace in Baabda as fighting intensifies around Beirut. The attack wounds the foreign minister's driver and follows heavy Israeli shelling amid the Israeli siege of West Beirut and renewed clashes with PLO forces in Haddeth and Bourj el Barajneh.
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PLO
Beirut
Reuter
Lebanon
Elias Sarkis
Beirut Radio
Fuad Butros
Baabda
Reuters
Sarkis
Shafik Wazzan
Palestine Liberation Organization
Wazzan
Associated Press
Tom Baldwin
Haddeth
Bourjel
Barajneh
Israel
Yasser
Arafat
Baldwin
West Beirut
Marshall escapes membership review amid holiday disrupts meeting
Alberta WCC executives cancelled a board session in Calgary planned to review Marshall and two others over conduct. About 10 of 24 directors planned holidays, preventing quorum. Party figures expect the issue to resurface at the Red Deer convention, with no cancellations before then.
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Alberta
Blum
Marshall
al Maggard
Gordon Jager
Wetaskiwin
Medicine Hat
Olds-Didsbury
Gordon Kesler
Kesler
WCC
Maggard
Jager
Red Deer
Frank Cottingham
Medicine Hat Wcc
Cottingham
John Patterson
Patterson
Ottawa Borrows Billions to Support Dollar and Sell Bonds
Ottawa financed a 2.35 billion dollar month by tapping 1 billion from foreign banks and 600 million from Canadian banks to buy Canadian dollars, plus 750 million U.S. raised on the European bond market. Official reserves rose to 2.926 billion as the dollar weakened to 77.67 U.S. cents.
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Ottawa
Finance Department
U.S
Eclipse Likely Hidden By Clouds In Medicine Hat
An eclipse of the moon tonight is unlikely to be visible in the Medicine Hat area. Ray Beattie of the local weather office says overcast skies with a 70 to 80 percent chance of rain could block viewing. the eclipse begins at 10 22 p m as Earth passes between the moon and sun.
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Medicine Hat
Ray Beattie
Weather Office
Beattie
Weather and local pool decision and MLB doubleheader
The notice previews periods of rain with a high of 15 and a low of 9 and directs readers to the weather map on page 27. City council may decide tonight whether the four wading pools can reopen this summer, with details on page 3. The sports section highlights a July 4th split doubleheader between the Montreal Expos and the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh on page 14.
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Wading Pools Council
Montreal Expos
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pittsburgh
Canadian dollar slips further after half cent rally
The Canadian dollar fell to 77.58 U S cents by noon, down from 77.97 on Friday. Traders said a firmer U S dollar against most currencies drove the decline after a brief recovery.
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Montreal
Canada
U.S
British community in Argentina faced with Falklands conflict
The 100000 strong British origin population in Argentina largely declares Argentine loyalty amid the Falklands War. They remove English names, adopt Spanish, and petition leaders to withdraw British forces, while tensions with both Argentines and Britain reshape identity and loyalties.
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Great Britain
Argentina
Falkland Islands
Thatcher
Falklands
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Christopher Youngey
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Mike Royko
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