Embargoed church candy returns to Mississippi
Mississippi church group led by Bishop Luke Edwards faces continued Illinois ban on Bishop's Best Peanut Brittle after a staple was found. Illinois public health will ship seized candy back to Meridian, Mississippi, while labeling and packaging issues are noted. Edwards defends REACH program and cites financial hardship from halted sales.
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Southern Illinoisan
Mississippi
Illinois
Illinois Department of Public Health
Carbondale
Luke Edwards
Christ Temple Pentecostal Church
Meridian
Miss
Edwards
Chet June
June
Marion
Temple Church
REACH
Tax plan details for 1992 World's Fair funding
Springfield lawmakers weigh a menu of tax options to fund the 1992 Chicago World’s Fair with a state role seen as modest. Officials outline a plan calling for nearly 500 million dollars in state support plus bonds and private funds, while GOP leaders demand solid financing answers.
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Springfield
GOP
Philip O’connor
O’connor
Senate
Fair
Senate Gop
Forest Etheredge
R-Aurora
World’s Fair Authority
John Kramer
Pope attack suspect allege training in Syria in court
Mehmet Ali Agca testified that he was trained as a terrorist in Syria by Bulgarian and Czechoslovak experts and claimed the Soviet Union is the center of international terrorism. Three Bulgarians and four Turks stand trial with Agca for complicity in the 1981 papal shooting. Agea is the main witness.
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Rome
Mehmet Ali-Agca
Syria
Soviet Union
Agca
John Paul II
Agea
Solzhenitsyn Applies for U S Citizenship
Exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his wife Natalia filed applications for U S citizenship in St Albans Vermont, with court papers stating their three sons will automatically become citizens once they are sworn. Solzhenitsyn, 66, won the Nobel Prize in 1970 and was later arrested by Soviet officials for criticizing the government.
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ST. Albans
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Natalia
U.S
Solzhenitsyns
Cavendish
United States
Leonard Lafayette
U.S. District Court
Burlington
Solzhenitsyn
Zurich
Switzerland
Man Kills Cop Over Four Dollar Parking Ticket
In St Louis, motorcycle patrolman Johnnie C. Corbin, 41, was killed when a driver, Willie Taylor Jr., rammed his motorcycle after a $4 ticket. Taylor, an ex convict, was arrested on a first degree murder charge. A bystander restrained him with a gun but it jammed.
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ST. Louis
Johnnie C. Corbin
Willie Taylor Jr
Robert Richters
Police Homicide Division
Taylor
Aylor
Richters
Corbin
Ronald Taylor
Ting Corbin
City Hospital
Richter
Ibin
CIA probe on Soviet detection of U.S. submarines
The CIA is conducting a $10 million study ordered by Congress to assess if Soviet radar and satellite techniques can locate U.S. missile submarines at sea. The inquiry, ongoing since last year, follows concerns over leaked Navy intelligence linked to John A. Walker and a Soviet spy ring.
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Washington
CIA
Congress
U.S
Spy
America
Washington Post
Navy
John A. Walker
Post
Reagan
Clinton plant cost overrun grows at Illinois Power plant
CHICAGO AP Construction spending at Illinois Power Co’s Clinton nuclear plant topped estimates by about 110 million dollars in the last seven months and is expected to continue rising until completion. Fuel loading is planned for next January, but officials say total overruns are not yet tallied.
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Illinois Power Co
Clinton
Illi
Nois Power
al Adams
Illinois Power
Central Illinois
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Carterville
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Murphysboro
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