El Salvador massacre probe dominates human rights brief
The El Salvador Human Rights Commission says it investigates a reported army massacre in the southeast, claiming at least 30 dead. Peasants from San Benito report 16 killed there in late January and many more in Campanario, with skulls and wells cited as evidence. Reports note army patrols warned residents to flee, while officials dispute details and U.S. lawmakers discuss guerrilla ties and regional training claims.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
Ligidamis Anazzis Gutierrez
Mexico
Gutierrez
Secre
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Nicaragua
Cuba
Junta
Junta candidate leads in Guatemala presidential vote
In incomplete results from a leftist boycott election, Gen Angel Anibal Guevara led with 64,190 votes about 43 percent as opponents urged protests. Second was Mario Sandoval Alarcon, then Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre, with lower totals. polling places counted so far numbered 35 of 562 in the capital. Police reported gunfire at a polling place and troops killed guerrillas burning ballots as Guatemala prepares for a Congress vote and new president selection.
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San Benito
Washington
House
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Ferman Cienfuegos
High Command
O’neill
Congress
Ristopher Matthews
O'Neill
Con
Jose Napoleon Duarte
Guatemala City
Angel Anibal Guevara
Elections Communications
Mario Sandoval Alarcon
National Liberation Movement
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre
Christian Democratic Party
National Renovator Party
Gustavo Anzueto Vielman
Authentic National Center
Electoral Council
Aguirre
Lat
Ruben Alvarez
Guntel
Vista Hermosa
Guevara
Lucas Garcia
Institutional Democratic Party
Revolutionary Party
National Unity Front
Guatemala
Jacobo Arbenz
Moderate GOP leaders clash with Reagan policies in 1980s
Fourteen months into Reagan's presidency, moderates like Patricia Bailey James Leach and Lowell Weicker say the party drifts toward ideology. They fault bellicose foreign policy cuts to social programs and warn the party must include all views to win elections. Weicker says the right pressures the party while facing a tough test from both sides.
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Washington
Ronald Reagan
Patricia Bailey
Federal Trade Commission
James Leach
Robbie Kilberg
Nixon-Ford
White House
Connecticut
Lowell P
Weicker Jr
Weicker
House
Reagan
Senate
Jim Leach
Prescott Bush Jr
George Bush
Court limits review of old UMW contract benefits
The Supreme Court unanimously held federal courts cannot second guess eligibility rules for benefits under an old United Mine Workers contract with the soft coal industry. Widows Gracie Robinson and Juanita Hager, whose husbands died in 1967 and 1971, argued lifetime health coverage was due. lower courts disagreed, but the high court reversed, saying the union’s bargain and congressional commands release courts from altering substantive terms.
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Washington
United Mine Workers Union
Supreme Court
John Paul Stevens
Congress
Stevens
High Court
UMW
Gracie Robinson
Juanita Hager
UMW Health and Retirement
Floyd Robinson
Paul Hager
Robinson
Hager
Alton fluoridation ruling heads for Supreme Court
Alton faces a Supreme Court appeal after a circuit court found Illinois fluoridation law unconstitutional. Assistant Attorney General Richard Cosby said the notice of appeal was filed Friday and may go directly to the Supreme Court. The ruling halted fluoride addition in Alton and halted state enforcement, with Judge Ronald Neimann deeming the 1967 law an unreasonable police power. Ruby Hale of the Illinois Pure Water Committee welcomed the stay denial, while Cosby noted other towns may choose to shut down on their own.
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Alton
Illinois
Illinois Supreme Court
Richard Cosby
Cosby
Supreme Court
Alton Water Co
State Department of Public Health
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Marion County
Ronald Neimann
Neimann
Illinois Pure Water Committee
Ruby Hale
Niemann
Chemical fire forces school closing in Aledo area
Aledo area school closed after a chemical plant fire at Mer Roc FS Inc. farm services plant near Peoria forced evacuations. The blaze began about 9 30 a m Sunday, sending 35 people to Mercer County Hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation before they were released.
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Aledo
Peoria
Mer- Roc FS Inc. Farm Services Chemical
Mercer County Hospital
Scott enters U S lockup in California
Former Illinois Attorney General William J. Scott surrendered at the Federal Correctional Institution in Pleasanton California to begin a year and a day sentence for income tax fraud. He was convicted March 19 1980 and will be eligible for parole after part of the term.
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Pleasanton
Calif
Illinois
William J. Scott
California
Federal Correctional Institution At
Scott
U.S
Marvin E. Aspen
Aspen
Lexington
Ellen
San Francisco
Supreme Court
Gane Fhae
William Barnett
Barnett
Sweden
Riviera
Greece
London
Italy
Tokyo
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Butch Heffelfinger
Heart of Texas Snake Handlers
Waco
Texas
Chemical Fire Forces School
Southern Manor
Gilberta S. Johnson
U.S. Lockup
Vogler’s
Vogler
E. DeYoung
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