Soviet air crash in Ukraine leaves about 80 dead
An Aeroflot TU-134 collided with a small military plane near Lvov while approaching the city airport. About 68 passengers were aboard the airliner and eight were on the military craft. Soviet sources say the two aircraft crashed in a field and that 80 people were killed. The official wording did not confirm whether the officers’ deaths were linked to the crash.
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Reinvestigation Planned in 1981 Agrarian Killings
United States and Salvadoran officials say they will reopen the 1981 killings of two American agrarian advisers and the head of the land redistribution institute in San Salvador. An army officer’s indictment is anticipated, though past promises have faded. President Duarte had pledged probes into these cases and other rights abuses.
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Jose Napoleon Duarte
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Egypt says it thwarted Libya linked truck bombing plot
Egypt's Interior Ministry said it halted a plot by Libya and a Syrian based group to detonate a truck bomb at an embassy. Officials indicated the target may have been the U S Embassy and Cairo sealed embassies row amid heightened security. A Libyan intelligence official in a third country recruited an agent for half a million dollars if successful.
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U.S
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Israel to swap 1150 Palestinian prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said Israel had no choice but to approve the prisoner exchange. The deal, agreed last Monday, involves 1,150 Palestinian prisoners and convicted terrorists in return for three captured Israeli soldiers.
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Israel
NYT
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Salvation Army linked to payoffs in clothing trade
Court papers allege two used clothing exporters paid kickbacks over 13 years to Salvation Army officers to secure favored access to used clothing and rags. Investigations focus on senior officials across multiple city offices as authorities probe conspiracy and mail fraud charges. The affair implicates Dumont Export Corp and the Usatch brothers in a wide probe.
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Washington Post
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Jerald Usatch
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Usatches
Dumont Export Corp
the Post
Retired Navy spy case teems with Soviet contacts
Washington reports a former Navy communications specialist began spying for the Soviet Union in 1965 while aboard the U S S Simon Bolivar and suggests arrests will expand. John Anthony Walker Jr with a son charged in the matter, and a Soviet diplomat has been recalled as FBI pursues the case.
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State Department
Reagan to unveil revised tax plan with populist tone
Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III outlined a new version aimed at pleasing business leaders while portraying a gain for average citizens against special interests. He stressed anti elitism and pro fairness as core themes, and promised major changes from last November’s rollout ahead of President Reagan's Oval Office address Tuesday.
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Reagan honors 13 recipients with Medal of Freedom
President Reagan presented the Medal of Freedom to 12 living honorees and planned to award Mother Teresa later. Recipients included Frank Sinatra Jimmy Stewart Chuck Yeager Jacques Cousteau Jeane Kirkpatrick Sidney Hook S Dillon Ripley Albert Wedemeyer Count Basie Jerome Holland George Low and Frank Reynolds. Reagan praised their humanitarian and diplomatic achievements across culture science and public life.
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