Balmain designer Pierre Balmain dies at 68 in Paris
French fashion designer Pierre Balmain died at the American Hospital from liver cancer at age 68. He dressed royalty and stars including Dietrich, Hepburn, Loren, Lollobrigida, Bardot, and Bergman, with clients also among Thailand and Belgium’s queens and the Begum Aga Khan. Born 1914 in Saint-Jean de Maurienne, Savoie.
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Paris
Pierre Balmain
Balmain
Marlene Dietrich
Kathryn Hepburn
Sophia Loren
Gina Lollobrigida
Brigitte Bardot
Ingrid Bergman
Thailand
Belgium
Begum Aga Khan
Saint-Jean de Maurienne
Savoie
Five Catholics in jail amid murder and subversion charges
In Manila the military charged two Roman Catholic nuns a former seminarian and two lay workers with murder and subversion over the killing of a government informer. They were jailed June 12 at a Batangas checkpoint after a meeting with New People's Army commanders.
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Manila
Philippines
Batangas
Communist New People’s Army
33 Child slaves rescued in Jakarta from two factories
Police said 33 girls aged 10 to 13 were freed from two Jakarta factories after being lured from Central Java with promises of about 24 dollars a month. They toiled 12 hours daily in cramped, poorly lit rooms behind a brick wall with guard dogs. one child died from paralysis. The owner faced child abuse and fake medicine production, identified as Sih.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Col
Hindarto
Java
Sih
Respected zoologist Portmann dies in Basel at 85
Adolf Portmann, renowned zoologist and founder of biological anthropology, died in Basel after months of ill health aged 85. A Basel University professor emeritus until 1968, he helped develop evidence for early man’s intellectual predestination. Born May 27, 1897, he studied across Europe before chairing Basel’s zoology department in 1933.
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Basel
Switzerland
Adolf Portmann
Portmann
Basel University
Geneva
Munich
Paris
Berlin
Japanese Firms Halt Ads After IBM Espionage Sting
Tokyo two major electronics firms Hitachi Ltd and Mitsubishi Electric Corp have halted all print advertising in response to an FBI sting alleging industrial espionage aimed at IBM. The Cabinet discussed the scandal as U.S.-Japan trade tensions rise. Hitachi admitted paying 546000 dollars and Mitsubishi about 20000 dollars for computer technology secrets.
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Tokyo
United States
IBM Corp
Japan
Hitachi Ltd
Mitsubishi Electric Corp
FBI
International Business Machines Corp
Mitsubishi
Hitachi
Argentina names ministers as Bignone era begins
The Reuters report notes President-designate Gen. Reynaldo Bignone forms a conservative cabinet after the Falklands crisis. Dr. Juan Aguirre Lanari is set as foreign minister and Gen. Llamil Restón as interior minister, signaling closer Latin American ties and a focus on economy and political party coordination.
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Michael Field
Daily Telegraph
London
Buenos Aires
Reynaldo Bignone
Falklands
Bignone
Juan Aguirre Lanari
Venezuela
Liberal
Corrientes
Arturo Illia
Lanari
Argentina
Falkland
Europe
Latin America
Llamil Reston
Fourth Army
la Pampa
Ireland Faces Damaging Bomb Assessment
British bomb experts were attempting to neutralize the explosive device when the incident occurred. About 300 homes suffered damage but there were no reported casualties.
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Ireland
Canada budget unveiled amid recession fight
Canada allocates 3.2 billion dollars to combat a severe recession with higher income taxes and capped government salaries. Finance Minister Allan MacEachen, in Trudeau's Liberal government, presented the budget in a national address from Ottawa. It revises the prior 1982-83 plan to fund job creation and loan subsidies for home buyers and small businesses.
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Toronto
Canada
Allan MacEachen
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Liberal
House of Commons
Ottawa
London subway strike ends after eight days of disruption
London Transport and unions moved to arbitration after a phased return to work by subway drivers and guards. The eight day stoppage halted most trains, caused severe traffic chaos, and followed a separate national rail walkout. About 25 to 30 percent of British Rail workers defied Monday’s strike, with roughly 500 trains run that day.
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British Rail
National Union of Railwaymen
Plymouth
London Transport
National Railroad
Board of
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