Border clashes trigger Nicaragua Costa Rica demilitarized zone talk
Rebels and government troops clash along the Nicaragua Costa Rica border as Nicaragua proposes a demilitarized zone backed by the Contadora group. Ortega says rebels and suspected Costa Rican security force complicity fuel the fighting near La Penca as Nicaraguan bombers hit rebel positions.
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Costa Rica
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Benjamin Piza
Daniel Ortega
Contadora Group
Mexico
Venezuela
Colombia
Panama
Ortega
Miguel Caracas
Revolutionary Democratic Alliance
la Penca
Caracas
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Soviet drive to break Afghan stalemate shifts to military and diplomacy
Moscow launches intensified tank and air operations against the mujahedin near Pakistan and destroys village terraces to starve insurgents while signaling possible confidential talks with the United States on a settlement. Kremlin hints at withdrawal if Washington eases Nicaragua pressure as it seeks a political outcome with Babrak Karmal regime intact.
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Scripps
Howard News Service
Washington
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet Union
Afghanistan
U.S
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Kremlin
Mujahedin
Holy Warriors
Clos
Pakistan
State Department
White House
Nicaragua
Babrak Karmal
Soviet crackdown destroys hundreds of moonshine stills
Soviet police crushed a government drive against drunkenness, wrecking hundreds of illegal moonshine stills including one run by an elderly woman who supplied a village. The raids followed June 1 measures banning daytime vodka sales, raising drinking age to 21, reducing production, and higher fines for public drunkenness.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Communist Party Central Committee
Izvestia
Khmer Rouge claims large Vietnam battle toll in Cambodia
Khmer Rouge guerrillas broadcast that in the previous month they killed 1,734 Vietnamese soldiers and wounded 1,859 across Cambodia. The claim comes without independent verification. The group, about 30,000 strong, leads the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea opposed by 160,000 to 180,000 Vietnamese troops backing Phnom Penh.
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Bangkok
Reuter
Khmer Rouge
Cambodia
United Nations
Israel Spared King Hussein in 1973 War
An Israeli Army magazine report says the air force halted plans to bomb a Syrian outpost on the Golan Heights after military intelligence learned King Hussein of Jordan was visiting the position. Israel fought Syria and Egypt in the October 1973 war, while Jordan remained out of the fighting.
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Reuter
Jordan
Hussein
Middle East
Ramahane Monthly
Golan Heights
Israel
Syria
Egypt
Money ends doctors' strike in Dominican Republic
In Santo Domingo the Senate approved a bill raising doctors wages to 200 dollars a month from 100, ending a strike by about 3,000 government physicians who had provided only emergency care at public hospitals since Friday. Erasmo Vazquez, head of the Dominican Medical Association, urged an immediate return to work following the vote.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Senate
Erasmo Vazquez
Dominican Medical Association
Letters by Boswell and Johnson Found in Library Cache
A researcher cataloguing rare books after a fire at Australia's National Library uncovered two letters by Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell. The letters were pasted into a two volume first edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson from 1791, with Johnson notes and Johnson’s circle details among the pasted pages.
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Canberra
Australia
National Library
Samuel Sanean
James Boswell
Johnson
R. Foxton
Boswell
London
John Hussey
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