Israelis attack Beirut highway amid heavy Syrian clashes
Israeli jets bombed Syrian artillery positions east of Beirut to back a tank push toward seizing the Beirut Damascus corridor in Lebanon’s central mountains. The fight marked the fiercest since a cease fire and led to intensified exchanges around Hammana and Aley as the PLO offered demilitarization to avert a full assault.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Beirut- Damascus
Tel Aviv
Hammana
Aley
Beirut- Damascus Highway
Israel
West
Palestine Liberation Organization
National Salvation Council
PLO
Council
Yasser Arafat
U.S
Philip C. Habib
West Beirut
Salah Khalef
le Monde
Voice of Palestine
Begin Pushes for U S Help in Lebanon Peacekeeping
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin faces a cool White House reception as he urges U S troops for a Lebanon peacekeeping force. President Reagan declines to commit, citing U S interests and domestic concerns. Senate and House committees press for clarity amid ongoing Lebanon crisis. A Lebanese mother views ruins in Sidon after Israeli invasion.
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Washington
Menachem Begin
White House
Capitol Hill
U.S
Lebanon
Reagan
United States
Begin
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Israel
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Mideast Seapower: US and Soviet Navies Grow in Mediterranean
Pentagon officials say the United States has expanded its Mediterranean fleet to 52 ships, including four aircraft carrier battle groups, while the Soviet Union has 39 ships. The move follows Israel's Lebanon invasion and echoes the 1973 naval buildup when the U.S. faced 96 vessels. Both powers reportedly increased presence from about 30 ships previously.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Mediterranean
Israel
Lebanon
Pentagon
U.S. Navy
U.S
Henry Catto
World food reserve in trouble grows at UN conference
ACAPULCO Mexico AP a proposed inter national grain reserve faces a split between producer and consumer nations as the World Food Council discusses it at a UN meeting The 36 member body includes rich and poor countries and data show most world grain stocks reside in North America The United States favors national rather than international control of reserves while producers question funding and influence over the market Officials warn the move could empower consuming nations amid rising malnutrition abroad with developing countries expected to import up to 145 million tons yearly by 1990.
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Mexico
World Food Council
United Nations
Latin America
Asia
Africa
U.N
United States
Canada
France
Bangladesh
Haiti
North America
Australia
Argentina
European Economic Community
Cambodian resistance groups form united coalition
Three Cambodian resistance factions signed a coalition at Government House in Kuala Lumpur to oppose Vietnamese occupation. Prince Norodom Sihanouk Khieu Samphan and Son Sann led the pact aided by Foreign Minister Ghazali Shafie. Talks followed the 1979 invasion and the ousting of the Khmer Rouge.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Government House
Norodom Sihanouk
Khmer Rouge
Khieu Sammphan
Son Sann
Khmer People’s National Liberation Front
Sirs
Ghazali Shafie
Cambodia
Heng Samrin
Pnom Penh
Soviet dissident to leave soon
In Chicago, Andrei Frolov and his wife celebrate reuniting after a 25 day fast to press for his exit from the Soviet Union. News from Moscow says fellow dissident Yuri Balovlenkov may be allowed to join his American wife in Baltimore.
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Chicago
Andrei Frolov
Yuri Balovienkov
Lois Becker Frolov
Loop
Frolov
Moscow
Soviet Union
Balovlenkov
Baltimore
Balovienkov
West
Balovienkov hospitalized after hunger strike ends
Yuri Balovienkov, after ending a six week hunger strike to join his wife in the United States, is hospitalized in Moscow. He was taken to Hospital No. 68 and reportedly in fair condition after resuming a normal diet under a nutritionist.
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Yuri Balovienkov
United States
Yekaterina Balovienkov
Balovienkov
Elena Kusmenko
Baltimore
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U.S. Marine
Tokyo
U.S.S
Pelilu
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Cpl
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K Company
3Rd Battalion
7Th Marines
Valentine
Joe Achterberg
Plymouth
Mass
31St Marines
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Pacific
India
Bombay
Air India
Southeast Asia
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Madras
Elena Balovienkov
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