Polish workers strike over food crisis in Silesia
Nearly 1 million miners and factory workers in Poland's Silesian belt walked out for four hours to protest shortages. Solidarity planned a two hour strike Aug 17 in Gdansk while national leaders face calls for a general stoppage. The government accused unions of sabotage while Pravda denounced union extremists.
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Thomas W. Netter
Warsaw
Poland
Silesian
Independent Union
Solidarity Union
Gdansk
Baltic
Solidarity
Soviet Union
Bieen
PAP
Ryszard Kuszleyko
Katowice
Kuszleyko
Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda At
Jan Tulewski
National Coordinating Commission
Communist Party Central Committee
Iran warns France over extradition and embassy seizure
A prominent Iranian religious leader warned that France could face an embassy seizure in Tehran if it refuses to extradite ex president Abolhassan Bani Sadr and Massoud Rajavi. The report notes past U S embassy takeover and ongoing French nationals' exit advisories amid Paris Iran tensions.
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Beirut
Lebanon
France
Tehran
Abolhassan Bani Sadr
Francois Mitterrand
Qom
Meshkini
Iran
America
U.S
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
New York
Bani Sadr
Massoud Rajavi
Mitterrand
Air France
Bombings in West Beirut Target French Offices
An anonymous caller claimed responsibility for overnight bomb explosions on two French banks and Air France in West Beirut. The threat demanded extradition of exiled Iranian figures Bani Sadr Rajavi and Bakhtiar, linking attacks to Iran's revolution and support for Iraq.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Air France
France
Abolhassan Bani Sadr
Cailer
Today
Massoud Rajavi
Iran
Mujahedeen Khalq Organization
Shapour Bakhtiar
Rajavi
Tehran
Bani-Sadr
Paris
Bakhtiar
Bani Sadr
Iraq
Islamic Republic of
Tran
Clergy to mediate Bolivia rebel crisis in La Paz
Catholic prelates prepared to fly to southeast Bolivia to mediate between the army rebels and the military junta in La Paz. The junta invited papal nuncio Alfio Rapisarda and Bolivia Bishops Conference president Monsignor Luis Rodriguez to help end the four day rebellion led by Generals Lucio Anez Rivero and Alberto Natusch Busch. Rebels say they control eastern Bolivia and Tarija and Potosi while the junta appears to have support in La Paz Cochabamba and Oruro.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Ale
la Az
Cio
Alfio Rapisarda
Bolivian Conference of Bishops
Luis Rodriguez
Lucio Anez Rivero
Alberto Natusch Busch
Tarija
Potosi
Cochabamba
Oruro
Hunger strikers in Maze prison press half way plea
Hunger strikers at the Maze prison urged Britain to meet them halfway to resolve the five month hunger strike stalemate that has killed eight inmates. The 2000 word statement claims no desire for special treatment and calls for rights to civilian clothes mail visiting rights and parole reduction for good behavior.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
the Maze
London
Britain
Eight year old in Orkney battles progeria daily
Fransie Geringer an 8 year old in Orkney South Africa lives with progeria a premature aging disease. He weighs about 40 pounds at 3 foot 8 inches. His pediatrician says the condition accelerates aging up to ten times and has no known cure. Fransie remains energetic despite headaches and facial aging while his family supports him and preserves normal childhood moments. Fransie may live to 16 or 17, with his father expressing a wish to keep him happy and give him simple joys while God wills.
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Orkney
South Africa
Fransie Geringer
Fransie
Martinus van Zyl
Fransié
Magda
van Zyl
Herman Geringer
Disneyland
Pinocchio
Geringer
Union to vote on postal pact in Canada
Union leaders set a date for ratification of a two year tentative contract with the government. If approved postal service would resume next week after a month long disruption. The accord gives 70 cent hourly raises for 2 years and a 17 week maternity leave subsidy but no full wage supplement for EI maternity benefits.
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Ottawa
Alan Gold
Quebec
Canada
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
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Pravda
Independent Labor Union
Janusz Onyszkiewicz
Lech Walesa
Mieczyslaw Rakowski
Walesa
Rakowski
Ayatollah
Hussein Ali Montazari
Ruhollah Khomeini
Claude Cheysson
Guy Georgy
Pierre Beregevoy
Europe
Denmark
Netherlands
West Germany
Belgium
Santa Cruz
The
Colombia
Paul
Johannesburg
Herald American and Post Standard
Occ
Onondaga Community College
Fleinchmans
S. Salina St
Marine Midland
Park Warren
Clinton St
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