Monkey to try space By The Associated Press
Astronaut Jeffrey A Hoffman, Amherst College alumnus, will take a memento from his alma mater aboard the shuttle Challenger a stuffed dog used in a 30 year physics test showing gravity pulls both monkey and bullet similarly. Hoffman noted a miscommunication at Amherst where the animal was called a bear.
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Jeffrey A. Hoffman
Amherst College
Physics Department
Hoffman
Farrakhan rejects Khadafy offer for armed black Uprising
Washington AP Farrakhan declines Muammar Khadafy offer to arm and train black Americans for an uprising. He advocates using the $190 billion purchasing power of Black Americans to pursue justice within the U S system, while noting a separate black state as a last resort if freedoms are blocked. Khadafy told a Chicago convention via satellite that 400,000 black soldiers should leave the U S Army to form a separate black state army.
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Louis Farrakhan
Muammar Khadafy
United States
Farrakhan
Khadafy
Nation of Islam
Chicago
America
Turner May Seek CBS Takeover Says FCC Official
FCC mass media chief says Turner is considering a bid to take over a major network identified by trade journals as CBS. Several FCC sources and Reuters reports note Turner has discussed the idea with commissioners, though no formal proposal was made. CBS and Turner reps dispute the reports and say there is no truth to a takeover.
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Ted Turner
CBS
James C. McKinney
FCC
Mass Media Bureau
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Turner
McKinney
Trade
Communications Daily
New York Times
CBS News
Tom Seem
Network
the Times
CBS Inc
Ferris
Roy Stewart
Reagan wary of Ortega Nicaraguan offer on Cuban advisers
Washington AP Reagan administration skeptical of Daniel Ortega proposal to withdraw 100 Cuban military advisers and pause arms purchases. Shultz says open to meeting in Montevideo for Uruguayan inauguration. Ortega invites bipartisan delegation to Nicaragua. lawmakers cautious on Sandinista intentions amid past covert aid cutoff. Bush labels Ortega moves potentially symbolic. officials debate scope of Cuban presence and weapons freeze.
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Daniel Ortega
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R-Ind
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Senate
George Bush
Austin Council On Foreign Relations
Texas
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