Thatcher shifts Rhodesia policy with envoy plan
Britain moves toward a black majority Rhodesia under Margaret Thatcher sending an envoy to Muzorewa and to African states opposing Salisbury. Cyrus Vance voices caution as the Anglo American peace idea is questioned, risking broader Cold War tensions and guerrilla involvement.
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Associated Press
London
Cyrus Vance
Margaret Thatcher
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Abel Muzorewa
Lord Carrington
House of Lords
Britain
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U.S
Vance
Europe
Middle East
Africa
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Communist Armed Patriotic Front
Muzorewa
U.S. Senate
Mass shooting near Venezuelan Embassy in San Salvador
Police in San Salvador killed 14 demonstrators and wounded about 20 as people attempted to bring food to militants occupying the Venezuelan Embassy. The killings raised the death toll to at least 37 over two weeks of protests against President Carlos Humberto Romero's regime.
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Eduardo Vasquez Becker
Associated Press
San Salvador
el Salvador
Carlos Humberto Romero
Gordon Mott
Sheraton
Red Cross
Popular Revolutionary Bloc
Rafael Flores Lima
Bloc
Government backs parents in bid for extended school year
The Justice Department filed a friend of the court brief siding with parents of handicapped children seeking summer programs and an extended school year for youths with severe mental and physical disabilities in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. A ruling is awaited. Milwaukee Road seeks a $20 million federal loan guarantee to stay afloat while restructuring under bankruptcy. Transportation Secretary Brock Adams said the application would be processed quickly and would fund a core system down to 2,400 miles if approved.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Justice Department
Milwaukee Road Railroad
Transportation
Brock Adams
Adams
The
Milwaukee Road
Trudeau Ousted as Clark Pledges Renewed Canadian Spirit
Joe Clark, whose Progressive Conservatives toppled Pierre Trudeau and the Liberal era after 16 years, pledged to inject a new spirit into Canada as Trudeau becomes opposition leader. Conservatives win 135 seats, short of a majority. Liberals 115, NDP 26, Social Credit remaining.
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Charles Hanley
Associated Press
Toronto
Joe Clark
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Liberal Party
Canada
Trudeau
Pierre Trudeau
Manhattan
House of Commons
Clark
Quebec
New Democrats
Liberals
Social Credit
West
Ottawa
Montreal
Spruce Grove
Alberta
Rocky Mountain Foothills
High River
Monorail crash near Seattle stalls repair efforts
Transit officials say repairs may take months after a monorail crash into a steel safety barrier. Investigators probe brakes failure on one of two parallel 1.2 mile tracks built for the 1962 World's Fair. Twelve people were injured but none seriously.
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Seattle
Alweg
West Germany
Texas pilots fined after illegal Colombia entry
William Spradley and Roy McLemore from Houston face $20,000 fines each for entering Colombia’s air space. They are held under guard in a Guajira hospital town awaiting payment as they seek funds to cover legal fees, medical needs, and travel home after landing on a beach due to mechanical trouble on April 29 while en route to Venezuela for oil bit supplies.
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Richacha
Colombia
Texas
Guajira
William Spradley
Roy McLemore
Houston
Spradley
McLemore
Florida
Venezuela
Guajira Desert
Brussels court halts live rat shooting at ancient festival
A Brussels court ended an eight year dispute by ordering an immediate stop to shooting live rats at the 1887 tied August festival in Zaffelare. The event featured archers releasing rats from high boxes while children beat animals to death.
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Brussels
Belgium
Zaffelare
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