Battle for Mount Kent Near Stanley in Falklands Conflict
British marines and paratroopers clash with Argentine troops for control of Mount Kent and surrounding ridges twelve miles west of Stanley as a potential prelude to a major assault. London sources say Rear Adm. John Woodward may allow a surrender offer before full attack while Britain weighs political risks in Latin America.
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Stanley
Falkland Islands
London
John Woodward
Britain
Press Association
Independent Television News
Argentina
Latin America
British Defense Ministry
Kent
Royal Marines
San Carlo
Goose Green
Space power grows as US readies first military shuttle flight
In the 25th year of space age the United States will conduct its first military space duty as the space shuttle Columbia carries a Defense Department payload. The mission marks the start of a multibillion dollar program to build a space force with pilots ships satellites and weapons. The secret payload is listed as DOD 82 1 and details are not released to reporters.
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Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace
Washington
Soviet Union
United States
Columbia
Defense Department
Cape Canaveral
Edwards Air Force Base
California
Reagan
America
Woman hunted for father found strangled in Albuquerque
Gail Wickstrom 70s, a frequent Odessa visitor, spent years roaming the Southwest in a futile search for her father missing since age five. She arrived in Odessa May 21 to settle a bank account and left May 24 for Arizona, later found beaten and strangled in the trunk of her car in Albuquerque. Her friend LaVerne Farmer of Odessa said Wickstrom, who traveled alone, never revealed her true age and kept chasing a lead across Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
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Dennis ST. Germaine
Albuquerque
Odessa
Southwest
LaVerne Farmer
Zeneta Ave
Gail Wickstrom
Arizona
Wickstrom
Farmer
Texas
New Mexico
Gail
Even nuclear war won't halt taxes, Newhouse News Service
Internal Revenue Service plan names 80 successors to run the IRS if top officials are unable to act, from Egger Jr. to regional and district leaders, with relocation sites and secret instructions to ensure tax collection continues during wartime.
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Newhouse
Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Roscoe L. Egger Jr
IRS
United States
Egger
James Owens
Treasury Department
El Salvador war shifts to rural fronts after city clashes
Bloodshed persists in the 31 month civil war as guerrillas retreat from cities to remote slopes and coastal plains. The army refines counterinsurgency, using platoons to wage hit and run battles, while casualties rise on both sides and refugees crowd into towns away from home.
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Richard Boudreaux
Associated Press
Usulutan
el Salvador
United States
Lempa
U.S
Radio Venceremos
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Falklands
Buenos Aires
Mario Menendez
Mount Kent
Defense Ministry
NASA
Air Force
Pentagon
Navy
Thomas Mattingly
Henry Hartsfield
Internal Revenue Bulletin
Salvador
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