Haig to visit China in June for high level talks
Secretary of State Alexander Haig will travel to Peking at the end of June for the first high level contact by the Reagan administration with China. The trip, part of a broader Asian tour including the Philippines and Japan, will cover talks on security ties and US arms sales to Taiwan amid ongoing adherence to the 1979 normalization accord.
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New York Times
Washington
State Department
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Peking
Reagan
China
Haig
Philippines
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
New Zealand
Japan
Taiwan
Soviet Union
Gerald R. Ford
Protestant crowd stones IRA hearse in Belfast funeral drama
Protestants pelted the coffin hearse carrying IRA hunger striker Francis Hughes as it moved toward Belaghy for burial. Police restrained crowds amid mounting tensions over an upcoming IRA funeral plan. Hughes, 25, died after a 59 day fast in Maze Prison, with three other hunger strikers still on strike.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Francis Hughes
John Dunlop
Irish Republican Army
Hughes
Bellaghy
County
Londonderry
Dunlop
Bobby Sands
Republic of Ireland
Dublin
IRA
Maze
Catholic West Belfast
St. Mary’s
Sands
Margaret Thatcher
John Hume
Puzzling wounds marked latest Atlanta slaying case
17 year old William Barrett was found dead in DeKalb County woods. He reportedly died by asphyxia and may have suffered postmortem puncture wounds. Investigators link Barrett to a string of 27 killings of young blacks and a missing 10 year old, with trace evidence guiding the Atlanta task force’s probe.
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Atlanta
William Barrett
DeKalb County
Associated Press
Barrett
Hand
Atlanta Public Safety
Lee Brown
Brown
House panel over seeks farm bill with higher price supports
The House Agriculture Committee abandons a strict budget farm bill and backs price supports that could exceed allocations by billions. Senate moves cut about 1 billion from price supports, including dairy, aiming to align with 1982 spending targets. Reagan administration objects to target prices and automatic price adjustments.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Thomas Foley
D-Wash
House
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Reagan
Congress
Agriculture
Richard Lyng
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