Chrysler Renault seal deal to buy AMC for 757 million dollars
Chrysler Corp and Renault sign a letter of intent to have Chrysler acquire American Motors Corp. for 757 million dollars. Chrysler would buy all AMC shares. Lee Iacocca calls it an agreement in principle with more work needed before closing. Meanwhile CN Rail freights derail in Nova Scotia and Bathurst with injuries and diesel spills.
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Chrysler Corp
Renault
American Motors Corp
Chrysler
AMC
U.S
Cashrich Chrysler
Lee Iacocca
Thomson
N.S
CN Rail
Maritimes
Nova Scotia
Canada
Moncton
Bathurst
N.B
Bathurst-area
Sunday Safeway openings charged under bylaw
Police charged owners managers and 22 employees at three Safeway stores for Sunday openings under the Days and Hours of Operation By law. 28 summonses issued with hearings set for Thursday. Detectives gathered evidence at Division Avenue and spoke to customers to prove the stores were open.
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Safeway
Ray Palardy
Palardy
Division Avenue
Criminal Investigation Branch
Pat Flinn
Charles Redpath
Bob Sauerwein
Crescent Heights Safeway
Sauerwein
Det. Redpath
Flinn
David Mudrack
Medicine Hat
Robin Schlaht
Police officer gunned down in New Brunswick
Const Emmanuel Aucoin 31 of Harvey New Brunswick was killed in a roadside traffic stop near Fredericton. A suspect Anthony Romeo 24 from Locust Valley New York was arrested in Boston and charged as a fugitive from justice with possible first degree murder. Extradition planned as RCMP pursue charges. A gold Porsche linked to the case was seized at Bangor Maine airport.
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New Brunswick
Boston
Emmanuel Joseph Aucoin
Harvey, N.B
Canada
Aucoin
Anthony Romeo
Locust Valley
N.Y
Logan International
Delta Airlines
Bangor
Romeo
U.S
RCMP
Jim Sartori
Massachusetts
Nassau County
Maine
New York
Ferry capsizing toll and salvage under way in Belgium
About 50 survivors and relatives prayed at St Donaas church for the dead and for thanks for being spared. Salvage crews welded rings to the Herald of Free Enterprise to right it as bodies reportedly trapped are recovered. Belgian lawyers questioned a distraught seaman blamed for closing bow doors. Governor Olivier Vanneste said 409 survived of 543 aboard. 53 bodies recovered and 81 missing. 26 identified.
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Zeebrugge
Belgium
St. Donaas Church
Herald of Free Enterprise
Olivier Vanneste
West Flanders
Ince
Vanneste
Reagan adviser disputes knowledge of Contra funds
A Reagan adviser says the president was not told the Contras benefited from the covert arms sales to Tehran. He rejects a report that Poindexter warned Reagan of the diversion, while lawmakers warn such knowledge would be a serious blow. Montreal Gazette reports links between North tied Lake Resources and arms dealers.
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Washington
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
U.S
Tehran
David Abshire
National Security
John Poindexter
Abshire
Senate
Robert Byrd
Bob Dole
Senate Intelligence Committee
Tower Commission
Montreal Gazette
White House
Montreal
Oliver North
Lake Resources
North
Women riot after male strip show canceled in Monroeville
About 600 women who paid ten dollars to see a male revue mobbed the Ritz nightclub in Monroeville after promoter Al Monzo canceled the show and refused cash payment. Public Safety Director John Danzilli says bottles were hurled, one woman injured, and damage reached about 500 dollars as police from five departments responded to restore order.
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Monroeville
John Danzilli
Ritz
Howard Johnson
Danzilli
al Monzo
Etenee Anpets
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Lake
Trans World Arms Inc
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