Americans Pray at Former Rebel Camp in Nicaragua
About 31 American peace advocates including three Syracuse residents spent a night at La Penca camp near the San Juan River on the Costa Rica Nicaragua border. They prayed and offered flowers to Costa Rican guards despite threats from rebel leader Eden Pastora. They planned to return to San Carlos and then Managua.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Syracuse
Costa Rica
Sharon Hostetler
Witness For Peace
la Penca
San Juan River
San Carlos
Eden Pastora
Fire spreads on Japanese ship Coral Ace near Aleutians
The Coral Ace, a 500 foot vehicle carrier loaded with Japanese cars, fought a blaze 500 miles south of Unimak Island as Coast Guard cutters and merchant ships aided. The crew of 24 pumped sea water after supplies ran out, the vessel listing about 3 degrees.
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Juneau
Alaska
North Pacific
Coast Guard
Monroe
Unimak Island
Aleutians
Eric Rosenberg
Panama
Rosenberg
Coral Ace
Prosper World
Mike Hilley
Lebanon’s Civil War Crisis Push With New 10-Point Agenda
In Beir ut Lebanon Christian and Moslem leaders form the National Alliance Front and adopt a 10 point plan to end the decade of conflict. The proposal seeks closer ties to Syria and the Soviet bloc while Israeli warplanes fly reconnaissance over Bekaa Valley as security reports note a deadly attacker’s mule bomb incident in southern Lebanon.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Bekaa Valley
National Alliance Front
Syria
Soviet Bloc
Bekaa
Four East Germans seek asylum in Austria
Four East Germans slipped into Austria from Czechoslovakia during stormy weather and asked for asylum, according to the Interior Ministry. The group included two men aged 23 and 24, a 32-year-old woman, and her 12-year-old daughter. They crossed on foot about 40 miles northwest of Linz, abandoned their car, and were expected to head to West Germany.
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Vienna
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Interior Ministry
Linz
West Germany
Arab League convenes emergency session in Casablanca
Seventeen of twenty one Arab League members gathered in Casablanca for a last chance emergency meeting called by King Hassan II to unite on divisive issues and the Palestinian question. Syria Lebanon Southern Yemen and Algeria boycott. eight leaders expected, plus PLO chairman. Morocco aims to form an ad hoc panel to engage absent nations and mend rifts.
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Casablanca
Morocco
Arab League
Hassan II of
Syria
Lebanon
Yemen
Algeria
Palestine Liberation Organization
Abdellatif Filali
United Press Internationa
Jaruzelski Named At Large Candidate in Poland Elections
General Wojciech Jaruzelski and other top government and Communist Party officials will run unopposed as at large candidates in October elections. The electoral commission approved 59 at large national list candidates for the Oct 13 ballot, the first since 1980. Solidarity calls for a boycott to protest political repression and the economy. The ruling group dominates the 460 seat Sejm with party allied members and various government organizations represented. The Associated Press report notes the government controls the ballot and parties.
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Warsaw
Poland
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Communist Party
PAP
Solidarity Union
South Pacific leaders approve no-nuke zone plan
Thirteen South Pacific nations agreed to declare the region a nuclear free zone. New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange said many members supported immediate signing while awaiting domestic constitutional procedures. The treaty, proposed by Australia at the forum’s annual meeting, bans placement, manufacture, or testing of nuclear weapons and nuclear dumping across the zone from Australia to South America south of the equator.
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South Pacific
Rarotonga
Cook Islands
New Zealand
David Lange
South Pacific Forum
Australia
South America
Lange
India Afghans sign two year cultural pact
India and Afghanistan sign a two year cultural agreement in New Delhi. Afghan foreign minister Shah Mohammed Dost leads a high level delegation seeking expanded Indian technical and economic aid. The pact provides for exchanges of academics scientists archivists historians artists dancers journalists sports teams films and books.
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India
New Delhi
Babrak Karmal
Afghanistan
Shah Mohammed Dost
Rajiv Gandhi
Dost
Mandela Raid Sparks Kidnapping Claim and South Africa Tensions
Police raided Winnie Mandela's Brandfort home after dispersing a demonstration with tear gas and rubber bullets. Thirty arrests were reported for public violence as Desmond Tutu urged restraint amid a broad state security clampdown around Johannesburg and Daveyton. A 20 month old grandchild reportedly disappeared, with Mandela banished to Brandfort for eight years.
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Daveyton
South Africa
Winnie Mandela
Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Brandfort
Orange Free State
Johannesburg
Desmond M. Tutu
Salvadoran rebels strike near capital in eight-hour clash
Leftist guerrillas launched a surprise assault on a town northeast of San Salvador, wounding five soldiers during more than nine hours of heavy fighting. More than 200 civil defensemen and National Guardsmen defended Chitoto, returning mortar machine gun and small arms fire on guerrilla positions outside the town.
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Suchitoto
el Salvador
UPI
San Salvador
Danes face outbreak of racism and violence against refugees
Copenhagen reports an upsurge in xenophobic incidents as firebombings and clashes with police escalate. Prime Minister Schlueter pledges dignity and respect for asylum seekers amid two Copenhagen bombings and a Kalundborg hotel attack that injured two officers.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Europe
Poul Schlueter
Iran
Kalundborg
Syracuse Herald Journal publication notice fragment
Fragmentary postal and publication data for Syracuse Herald Journal. Mentions mailing details Box 4915 Syracuse New York 13221 and publication numbers with various postage and subscription notes.
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Syracuse Herald-Journal
The
Herald Co
Syracuse
N.Y
H.Y
P.O
Syracuse Man
Mall
Sunda
Deadly European Storm Toll Tops Nine With Widespread Floods
Storms lashed Europe from the French coast to Denmark, killing at least nine people and injuring 18 as high winds, rain, snow, and floods disrupted travel. In Austria, six died with Danube floods forcing evacuations, while France reported a 19 year old woman killed offshore at Port Gardian. Italy saw two deaths from lightning and floods near Trento and Florence.
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Sweden
Jan
Bremen
Austria
Danube
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Lower Austria
Tyrol
Brenner Pass
Faggenbach
Kauner
Salzburg
Gruenau
Mediterranean
France
Rhone River
Camargue
Port-Gardian
Rhone
Trento
Italy
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