Nuclear weapons convoy mystery after 20-ton truck overturns
In Salisbury England a 20-ton truck carrying a top secret military convoy skidded off an icy road near a Royal Navy depot. The Ministry of Defense refused to confirm cargo and said no one was harmed. Security forces sealed the area as observers suspected nuclear weapons.
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Salisbury
England
Ministry of Defense
Royal Navy
West Dean
Roger Freeman
Labor Party
House of Commons
Martin O'Neill
Labor
William Peden
Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament
Polaris Watch
Peden
Naval Base
Portsmouth
Freeman
Ministry of Defence
Levin charges Weinberger rushing to start two carriers
Senator Carl Levin accuses Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger of misleading Congress by accelerating funding to begin work next year on two Nimitz class carriers valued at 3.5 billion dollars each. Weinberger defends proposing two carriers in the 1990s and faces scrutiny as defense plans face possible cuts in a 7.7 percent Pentagon budget rise.
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Washington
Senate Armed Services Committee
Defense
Caspar W. Weinberger
Congress
Carl Levin
D-Mich
Armed Services Committee
Levin
Pentagon
Weinberger
Defense Secretary
David Brinkley
Navy
John Lehman
Irish UN soldier killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon clash
Irish Cpl Dermot McLoughlin was killed when Israeli mortar and tank rounds hit a UNIFIL building in Branchit village. Israel regrets the death and says an investigation is underway. Ireland and UN officials voiced strong concern as Security Council weighs a six month extension for UNIFIL amid rising attacks on the force.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Lebanon
U.N
United Nations
Timor Goksel
United Nations Interim Force
Unifil
Dermot McLoughlin
Branchit
Goksel
Yitzhak Rabin
Moshe Levy
Dublin
Peter Barry
Ireland
Javier Perez de Cuellar
Gustav Hagglund
Finland
Nagoura
U.N. Security Council
Marrack Goulding
McLoughlin
South Lebanon
Haggland
Cpl. McLoughlin
Pope baptizes babies in New Year tradition
Pope John Paul II baptized 50 babies from 10 countries in the Vatican Hall of Benediction, continuing a New Year ritual begun in 1980. Thirty boys and twenty girls, including 41 Italians and one infant each from the United States Argentina Brazil Colombia Britain Nigeria Poland Portugal and Switzerland, were blessed as the pope urged parents to raise their children as witnesses of Christian faith.
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Vatican City
John Paul II
Vatican
United States
Argentina
Brazil
Colombia
Britain
Nigeria
Poland
Portugal
Switzerland
Andrew Olive McGraw
Rome
John Paul
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