May Day Protests Across U S Rally Patrons and Police Action
Police clashed with demonstrators at an unlawful assembly in Los Angeles as May Day events spanned nationwide. Eight women and 14 men were booked for assault and riot amid crowd control, while tens of thousands joined pro Israel rallies in New York, Los Angeles, and other cities.
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Associated Press
Revolutionary Communist Party
Los Angeles
Israel
MacArthur Park
Larry Mazur
Terry Dymont
Progressive Labor Party
Pershing Square
Business
Federal
Soviet Union
Poland
Solidarity Trade Union
el Paso
Ysleta
Veterans of Foreign Wars
America
Methodists to talk spending at bishops meeting
The 108 member United Methodist Council of Bishops convenes in Little Rock to hear a hunger report and elect a new president. Gov. Bill Clinton will address the gathering as Crutchfield's successor is chosen, with world church relations and internal funding debates on the agenda.
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Little Rock
Ark
United Methodist Council of Bishops
United States
Bill Clinton
Finis A. Crutchfield
Houston
National Council of Churches
World Council of Churches
Crutchfield
United Methodist Church
Conservatives press to soften church nuclear letter
A coalition of 20 conservative Catholic groups urged trimming or dropping the bishops pastoral letter The Challenge of Peace as the National Conference of Catholic Bishops met to adopt a final draft The document criticizes U S nuclear policy and calls for stronger peace efforts while facing internal and external pressure from conservative and Reagan administration voices.
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Chicago
United States
U.S
National Catholic Coalition
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Bishops’ Conference
Daniel Hoye
Free Phone Sex line sparks congressional clash in NYC
The FCC faces a dispute over a High Society Magazine dial‑a‑sex service in New York City that prompts lawsuits and anger in Congress over access by minors. Suffolk County executive Cohalan alleges minors dialed in, lawmakers seek FCC action, while Virginia state employees run up bills calling the number.
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Federal Communications Commission
New York City
High Society Magazine
New York
Congress
FCC
Peter F. Cohalan
Suffolk County
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High Society
Ira Kirschenbaum
John Quinn
New York Telephone Co
New York Telephone
Virginia
Gary M. Epstein
Common Carrier Bureau
Cohalan
Epstein
Thomas J. Bliley Jr
R-Va
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