British forces press toward Falklands capital in key mount Kent clash
British marines and paratroopers clash with Argentine troops 12 miles west of Stanley on Mount Kent as Britain weighs whether to demand Argentine surrender before a broader assault. UK reports 250 Argentine casualties at Darwin. airstrikes on Stanley continue. ships proximity near Stanley harbor noted.
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Associated Press
Stanley
Falkland Islands
London
John Woodward
Falklands
Britain
Press Association
Independent Television News
Argentina
Wor
Latin America
British Defense Ministry
Mount
Kent
Two Sisters
Buenos Aires
Mario Menendez
Mount Kent
Defense Ministry
Royal Marines
San Carlo
Goose Green
Darwin
Stanley Harbor
Parker era five years for embezzling school funds
Parker, former University of Illinois vice president, was sentenced to five years in prison and a $10 000 fine after embezzling about 600 000 from the university and spending much of it at Chicago area nightclubs and on women. He showed emotion at sentencing as prosecutors described the crime as outrageous and a breach of public trust. Parker faced two trials with a prior hung jury and a subsequent conviction on 157 counts of felony theft.
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Jensen
Art Lerner
Parker
Mount Vernon
Rockford
West Frankfort seeks 340000 water grant for Treece Brown Addition
West Frankfort City Council approved applying for a 340000 HUD grant to extend water service to the Treece Brown Addition, which includes 115 homes. City officials discarded broader sewer and water mains extensions to North Seventh and Eighth streets due to income qualification limits. Fire hydrant flushing will limit water use 8 am to 3 pm Wednesday and Thursday.
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O.R. Walley
Southern Illinoisan
Treece-Brown Addition
West Frankfort
Bill Krah
Seventh and Eighth Streets
Cleveland Street
Treece- Brown
Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development
Krah
HUD
Illinois Department of Community Affairs
William Palmer
Pope meets Protestant leaders after hostile Glasgow reception
Pope John Paul II met with Presbyterian and Protestant leaders in Edinburgh seeking reconciliation after a hostile Glasgow reception. He urged unity amid historic enmities and noted ongoing doctrinal questions while Glasgow prepared for an open air Mass at Bellahouston Park. Police investigated an overnight rail station fire and four youths were injured by a stone-throwing bus incident.
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Scotland
John Paul II
Britain
Glasgow
Bellahouston Park
Murrayfield
Edind
Pope
John McIntyre
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church of Scotland
Gordon Gray
John Paul
Judge allows Hinckley brain scan evidence
The trial judge reversed to permit jurors to hear expert testimony on CAT brain scans of John W. Hinckley Jr. showing brain shrinkage linked to severe schizophrenia. Defense psychiatrists and a psychologist testified to Hinckley’s mental disease, while the government prepared to argue sanity in the March 30, 1981 shooting of President Reagan and others outside a Washington hotel.
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Washington
John W. Hinckley Jr
U.S
Barrington D. Parker
Hinckley
Parker
White House Ee
James S. Brady
Supreme Court rejects appeal in Illinois death penalty case
The Supreme Court left intact Cornelius Lewis’s murder conviction and death sentence for the 1978 Decatur bank shooting. It refused to hear challenges to Illinois death penalty law and to claims of ineffective counsel.
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Supreme Court
Illinois
Washington
Cornelius Lewis
Lewis
Menard
Chester
Donald Bivens
Citizens National Bank
Decatur
Holiday traffic death toll down this Memorial Day weekend
More than 300 motorists died this weekend during the long Memorial Day holiday, but the nation’s death toll fell short of the 400 to 500 fatalities predicted by the National Safety Council. Last year, 378 people died on the streets and highways over the three day weekend, compared with 308 victims reported by early today. The holiday period extended from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Storms and cold weather strike plains and beyond
Storms and cold weather lash the nation as Memorial Day weekend storms kill at least 19 people and force thousands from homes. Tornadoes hit Texas and Oklahoma with record May rainfall and 2 feet of water in some towns, while Wyoming Montana and South Dakota record low temperatures. Hail in Oklahoma and rivers rising in Missouri and Kansas accompany widespread outages and flood concerns. The Atlantic hurricane season opens with Alberto named as severe storms spawn tornadoes from Illinois to Ohio and three inches of rain fall near Decatur.
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Associated Press
Plains
Texas
Oklahoma
Marion
Ohio
Florida
Wyoming
Montana
South Dakota
Colorado
Missouri
Kansas
National Weather Service
Alberto
Illinois
Bement
Decatur
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