Iran narrows Islamic courts executions to killer cases
Ayatollah Khomeini issued a decree restricting revolutionary court death sentences to those proven to have killed or ordered killings. He urged abroad support to target Shah Pahlavi and close aides, while noting prior executions and ongoing limits on court powers. The move follows Habib Elghanian's controversial execution and signals tighter judicial rules.
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Thomas Kent
Associated Press
Tehran
Iran
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Islamic Revolutionary Courts
Revolutionary Court
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
United States
Ardeshir Zahedi Khomeini
Habib Elghanian
Israel
Khomeini
Revolutionary Courts
Secret Revolutionary Council
Sadeq Khalkhali
Missing men search ends as coast guard breaks news
Coast Guard Lt. Gabe Kinney tells a reporter the search for eight missing offshore oil rig workers is called off. A fiancée overhears the briefing in the headquarters, breaking into sobs as Kinney explains the uncertainty of the fate and possible locations in the Gulf currents.
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Michael O’connor
Associated Press
Galveston, Texas
Coast Guard
Gabe Kinney
Kinney
South African infant death rates show racial gap
In a first set of mortality statistics from South Africa the white infant death rate is 21.6 per 1000 while black and mixed race babies die at far higher rates 123.9 and 132.6 per 1000 respectively. Gastroenteritis pneumonia and measles drive the excess deaths.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
C.H. Wyndham
L.H. Irwig
Medical Research Council
Funeral services set for Rev. Joseph Sands killed in church hostag ing
In Littleton New Hampshire Rev Joseph Sands 46 held hostage over five hours Friday in the church rectory and shot dead by Peter and Jane Linsley who then killed themselves The memorial will be in Lancaster near the priest ran a halfway house for boys Burial will be in Methuen Massachusetts
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Littleton
N.H
Joseph Sands
Sands
Peter
Jane Linsley
Lancaster
Methuen
Mass
Children slain by soldiers in night in Central African Empire
Amnesty International reports about 100 school children aged 8 to 16 killed during a night sweep by Imperial Guard in Bangui over uniform rules. Witnesses cite 62 bodies, with stoning, bayonets, and nails. Bokassa later announced releases, while the country traces independence from France in 1960 and his 1977 coronation.
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Paris
Amnesty International
Human Rights Organization
Bokassa I
Imperial Guard
Bangui
Ngarangba
Bokassa
Amnesty
France
Central African Republic
Ubangi Shari
Equatorial Its
Senator Denies Wrongdoing in Talmadge Hearings Testimony
Chief witness Daniel Minchew prepares to testify to the Senate Ethics Committee as he alleges Herman Talmadge diverted campaign and expense funds. Talmadge rebuts, calling Minchew a thief while Minchew faces Justice Department scrutiny. Congress others push national health insurance and aid to Israel and Egypt amid budget debates.
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Mike Shanahan
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Daniel Minchew
Sen
Herman Talmadge
Minchew
Georgia Democrat
Senate Ethics Committee
Talmadge
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Justice Department
Capitol Hill
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Henry A. Waxman
D-Calif
Congressional
Carter
Congress
Israel
Egypt
Middle East
Rhodesia
Jesse Helms
R-S.c
Abel Muzorewa
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