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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1981
Page
14
Western banks reported no word on Poland meeting the January 31 interest payment of 500 million dollars on 2.4 billion dollars in loans. Bankers expect delays and possible default actions may be postponed beyond 1982 while martial law restrictions complicate debt decisions.
Iranian deputy Mohammad Taki Behsharat was shot dead in Tehran by a passing car. Three alleged bombers were executed at Evin Prison for the June 28 attack on the Islamic Republican Party HQ, part of the regime’s post ouster crackdown. Khomeini urged workers to beware infiltrators.
London police continued a bear hunt after four schoolboys reported sighting a brown bear in the Lea River valley marshes. Footprints and two skinned carcasses prompted the search, but no bear was found and officials consider a hoax possible. Chief Inspector Peter Platten warned there is no evidence of a current bear presence.
Zdzislaw Rurarz, former Polish ambassador to Japan, calls for cutting all trade with Poland and the USSR. He says not to aid the Polish military government or its sponsors, identifying the Soviet Union as backing the regime. Reagan aides review options with decisions due by week’s end.
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