Polish secret police trial ties top ranks to priest killing
In Torun Poland Lt Waldemar Chmielewski testified that a senior Interior Ministry officer approved the kidnapping of dissident priest Rev Jerzy Popieluszko and suggested authorities would shield the plotters from prosecution The four officers face possible death sentences if convicted and the case marks a rare public trial in a Soviet bloc country.
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World News Briefs From Africa to Asia and Crime
Desmond Tutu urged foreign investors in Johannesburg to apply persuasive pressure for racial change within 18 to 24 months. Paraguay reports US officials suspect senior military officials in drug trafficking after a chemical seizure. Abba Eban opposes installing VOA transmitters on Israeli soil to reach the Soviet Union. Chinese workers face a one hour lunch break after a New Year efficiency drive ending the two hour mid day break. A Shanghai Zoo tiger incident left a man severely injured and hospitalized after leaping into the pit. the attacker in a separate report is Luciano Lutring, the so called sub machinegun soloist, now on the run with a 17 year old girlfriend Flora D.
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China
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Peking
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France
Italy
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Graham chides evangelists for political overreaching
New York Times reports Rev. Billy Graham criticized fellow Christian ministers for venturing into partisan politics during the 1984 presidential race. He said some went too far on both left and right, while affirming a duty to engage on social issues and disarming concerns as his crusade continued abroad.
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Latin Mass supporters want traditional rite back
A Gallup poll released by a traditionalist Roman Catholic group finds 40 percent of American Catholics favor restoring a Latin Mass as an alternative to the English version. About 53 percent would attend if convenient. 35 percent oppose a pre 1970 form, and 37 percent would not attend even if available.
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Ringrose
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Southern Illinoisan contact and subscription details
Publisher and staff titles listed with office phone numbers and locations in Carbondale and Herrin. Subscription rates shown for carrier, motor route, and mail, with outside-county pricing and post office address for changes of address.
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Herrin
Southern Illinoisan
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UNESCO separation not divorce shapes U.S. withdrawal stance
University of Georgia law professor Louis B. Sohn says the U.S. move to withdraw from UNESCO should be viewed as a separation rather than a divorce. He expects to advise on recommendations to hasten reconciliation, while Paris hosts a January 16 conference on UNESCO human rights programs deemed objectionable by the State Department.
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Unesco
University of Georgia
Louis B. Sohn
Paris
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Sohn
Shultz to raise radar sites in nuclear talks
Secretary of State George P. Shultz will press Soviet radar installations and other defense moves in next week's nuclear arms talks. He will urge adherence to the 1972 ABM Treaty, citing Krasnoyarsk radar as likely outside limits. Critics note the site as a potential treaty violation amid broader alleged impermissible missile defenses.
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Krasnoyarsk
Siberia
Congress
U.S
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Robert S. McNamara
Gerard C. Smith
Foregin Affairs Magazine
Derailment Triggers Evacuations Near Williamsburg Ky
Thirty three derailed freight cars toppled a tanker car carrying acrylonitrile prompting evacuation of about 110 nearby residents. No injuries reported. The tanker is intact per police. Evacuees sought shelter at homes motels and Pleasantview Elementary School while cleanup proceeds over up to four days.
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Seaboard System
Emlyn
Troy Sharp
Dick Brown
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Sharp
Pleasantview
Jim Argiropoulos
Seaboard
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