Hunger strike talks in Belfast maze seek face-saving deal
Catholic mediators report a proposed package approved by protesting prisoners aims to end the Maze hunger strike. It includes covered walkways for IRA members to mingle, prison work defined as handicrafts for Catholic charities, and other concessions. The government refuses direct talks and demands the prisoners abandon the fast. Joe McDonnell nears death on day 60 as Sinn Fein cites his collapse.
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Northern Ireland
Maze
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Britain
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Irish Republican Army
Ireland
IRA
Provisional
Joe McDonnell
McDonnell
Isabel Peron Freed After Five Years House Arrest Return to Spain
Isabel Peron former Argentine president and widow of Juan Peron is freed after more than five years under house arrest and will depart for Europe within days. Federal Judge Narvaiz ordered release citing norms. she helped lead but never returned to politics. Her exile began after a 1976 coup and she has lived under guard since 1978 amid military rule in Argentina.
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Isabel Peron
Evita
Juan Peron
Spain
Peron
Pedro Narvaiz
Angel Robiedo
Robiedo
Europe
Pilar Franco
Francisco Franco
Isabel
Peronist Justicialist Party
Robledo
Juan D. Peron
Eva Duarte
Panama
Isabel Martinez
Isabelita
Begin denies two week deadline on missiles in Lebanon
Prime Minister Menachem Begin rejects CBS a two week deadline claim for removing Syrian anti-aircraft missiles from Lebanon. He says he will not wait forever and supports diplomatic efforts though cannot give Habib unlimited time. Habib meets Reagan aides before resuming shuttle diplomacy.
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Israel
Menachem Begin
CBS
Lebanon
CBS News
Begin
U.S
Philip Habib
Uri Porat
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Habib
Middle East
Reagan
Porat
Secret U S Cuba talks faltered over Africa role and Moscow ties
Washington reports disclose a string of private Carter era meetings with Fidel Castro aimed at normalizing relations. The talks, starting in December 1978 and continuing into 1980, failed to resolve Cuba’s military involvement in Africa and its ties to the Soviet Union, with partial easing on human rights and a later Mariel port opening triggering a new U S Cuban strain.
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Peter Tarnoff
Cyrus R. Vance
Robert Pastor
National Security Council
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United States
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Jose Luis Padron
David Aaron
Zbigniew Brzezinski
David Newsom
Tarnoff
Pastor
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Freedom Flotilla
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