De Klerk sworn in as acting South African president
National Party leader F W de Klerk was sworn in as acting president after forcing the resignation of P W Botha. He pledged peaceful reform and called for a new parliament on Sept 13 while promising a five year term. Desmond Tutu criticized the transition as a new face for apartheid.
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de Klerk
Botha
Pretoria
South Africa
National Party
F.W. de Klerk
P.W. Botha
de Kierk
Union
Michael Corbett
Zambia
Southern Africa
Desmond Tutu
Aparteid
Raws
United Democratic Front
Great Crocodile
Mass Democratic
Aid to farmers approved by Bush for 807 million
President Bush signed legislation to speed 807 million dollars in farm aid across crops. Wheat farmers receive 400 million due to severe drought. Disaster Assistance Act covers rice, soybean, cotton and other crops hit by rain and floods. House backed a near 900 million drought relief package after White House and Senate pressure.
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Washington
Bush
Kansas
House
White House
Senate
Londonderry marks anniversary with march and bomb ruins
In Londonderry marchers chanted IRA as they passed police and a bar ruined by a bomb two days earlier. In Belfast police used plastic bullets to quell youths who set fire to four vehicles in violence marking 20 years since British troops arrived. No injuries reported. Hijackings occurred as two buses, four vans, and a truck were set afire in west Belfast, a mainly Catholic area.
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Londonderry
Norther Ireland
IRA
Irish Republican Army
Belfast
Northern Ireland
West Belfast
Killer bees arrival delayed to 1991 or later says USDA
The Agriculture Department reports Africanized honeybees are still advancing north from Mexico but are not expected in the United States until 1991 or later. Delays arise from a joint Mexico project, giving researchers time to study management, with the bees' hybrid origin tracing to Brazil in 1956.
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Washington
Mexico
United States
Agriculture Department
Department
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
James W. Glosser
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Brazil
Israel holds Obeid without trial amid Lebanon hostage talks
The article reports Israel detaining Obeid without charges, alleging he coordinated Hezbollah attacks. It notes detainee rights are unclear, mentions a radical Shiite group claiming an American hostage's death, and cites Israel's demand for freeing missing Israelis and foreign hostages in exchange. It references Lt. Col. William R. Higgins and long-time AP correspondent Terry A. Anderson.
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Israel
Obeid
Hezbollah
Lebanon
Army
William R. Higgins
Terry A. Anderson
Middle East
Sunday Times
Marie Colvin
Brg
Ephraim Lapid
Driver shot after MontCo police chase in Gaithersburg
A 29 year old Gaithersburg man Gary B Caudill led police through Montgomery Village in a chase before an officer shot him in the head during a roadblock encounter. He is in critical condition at Suburban Hospital. Investigators have not filed charges and seek reasons for the flight.
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Gaithersburg
Montgomery Village
Gary B. Caudill
Welbeck Way
Montgomery County
MD. 355
Montgomery Village Avenue
Chris Albrecht
Ofc
Albrecht
Dog Rough
MD. 108
Sundown Road
Illinois drops charges against Gary Dotson
Prosecutors in Chicago dropped 12 year old rape and kidnapping charges against Gary Dotson after the accuser recanted her testimony. The dismissal came as a new trial motion was granted by Circuit Judge Thomas R. Fitzgerald. Dotson, once convicted in 1979 and later pardoned, expressed mixed emotions while supporters noted the innocence clear by genetic testing.
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Chicago
Gary Dotson
Dotson
Thomas R. Fitzgerald
Thomas Breen
Fitzgerald
Breen
Mr. Dotson
Cathleen Crowell ‘Webb
Carl Nannini
Dublin
N.H
Webb
Nannini
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Beirut
Michel Aoun
Douar
Bouar
Aoan
Poland
Warsaw
Czeslaw Kiszczak
United Peasant Party
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Communist Party
Peasant Party
Roman Bialinowski
Walesa
Kiszczak
N. Ireland
New York Strip
Israel Holding Obeid
Illinois
Ures
Ree Eer
Akuma Prs
Nera
Frederick Medical Supplies
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Browning Pool & Patio
Damascus
Ydel
Enone
Beltone
Frederick E400
Hagerstown
Frederick - Hagerstown
MT. Atky
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