Reagan raps tax fees and peso devaluation notes
FORT WORTH Texas UP I reports a man, Larry Keith Robison 25, confessed to killing five people. He faces one murder count now, with prosecutors needing to prove killings occurred during another felony to seek the death penalty. Victims include Rickey Lee Bryant 31 decapitated and others stabbed or shot. Robison held in solitary as evidence is gathered.
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Fort Worth
Texas
UPI
Larry Keith Robison
Robison
A.J. Tirott
Rickey Lee Bryant
Bryant
Lake Worth
Georgia Ann Reed
Scott Willard Reed
Earline Barker
Bruce Gardner
Tarrant County District Attorney’s
Oil and gas finds reported off Georges Bank
The Cape Cod Times quoted four unnamed sources claiming that wells drilled by Tenneco and Shell showed natural gas and that Mobil had found oil in Georges Bank fishing grounds. Company spokesmen denied any confirmed discovery, noting testing was ongoing with no conclusions yet reached.
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Hyannis
Mass
Georges Bank
Cape Cod Times
Tenneco
Shell
Mobil
Oil Company
Georges
John Flint
Charles Schneider
Houston
Cape Cod
John Wright
Dolphin shields boy in shark waters off Cocos Island
The West Australian reports an 11 year old boy, Nick Christides, was swept from his surfboard at Cocos Island in the Indian Ocean and saved after four hours by a dolphin that never left his side. A U S Orion plane spotted the boy and he was rescued. Cocos islanders said no shark would approach while the dolphin stayed nearby. The father described the radio interview from the Australian island.
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Perth
Australia
Cocos Island
Indian Ocean
Nick Christides
Cocos
Milford boy plays 17 hours for 2.38 million points in Star Castle
Tom Crain, 12, spent 17 hours and 10 minutes on a single quarter at Picadilly Circus Pizza Parlor in Milford Iowa to set a Star Castle high score of 2,382,670. He began about 1:30 p m Friday and finished at 6:40 a m Saturday with 25 residents cheering him on. He rarely left the controls while friends tended the game, and his prior record was 63,000 points.
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Milford
Iowa
Crain
Star Castle
Tom Crain
Picadilly Circus
Tom
Picadilly
Yugoslav cake breaks records on Adriatic coast
In Belgrade Pororoz cooks baked a 1070 foot cake using 9180 eggs and tons of sugar. Four Belgrade hotels crafted the sweet for vacationers and wheeled it to the beach where tourists devoured the entire creation in one evening, according to Tanjug.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Adriatic
Pororoz
Tanjug
Skydiver lands on horse from 5000 feet
Jim Templeton, 28, a professional skydiver from Hamilton Town, parachuted from a plane at 5000 feet to land in the saddle of a blindfolded mare named Pinto Bean during the Wisconsin River Championship Rodeo at the North Iowa County Fairgrounds in Mason City. He stayed mounted briefly before falling, then climbed back on for a triumphant ride around the arena, a feat believed to be a world record.
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Mason City, Iowa
UPI
Jim Templeton
Hamion Town
Templeton
North Iowa County Fairgrounds
Mason City
Pinto Bean
Weather Forecast and Flooding Across Midwest and South
Mostly sunny today and tomorrow with highs near 80 and clear nights down to 55. Heavy rains flood midsection areas as east central and northwest Mississippi saw intense storms and Nebraska Missouri regions reported power outages and river flooding. A flood warning covered Sarah Mississippi as Coldwater River topped flood stage while water surged along Little Blue River near Atherton Missouri.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
Nebraska
Missouri
Sarah
Miss
National Weather Service
Atherton
Little Blue River
Missouri River Valley
McCook
Neb
Kansas
Florida
Gulf Coast
Tennessee
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Paris synagogue attack spurs new security plan
Terrorists firebombed an unoccupied synagogue in Paris prompting President Mitterrand to push sweeping security proposals. The attack follows a spate of Jewish-targeted violence, including the Jo Goldenberg restaurant shooting. Officials outline plans for centralized police data, expanded forces, and anti-terror measures while not confirming retaliation.
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Paris
UPI
Francois Mitterrand
France
Beth Roch Pinah
Jesus
Jo Goldenberg
Notre Dame Cathedral
Mitterrand
Cpee
Mitterand
Gaston Defferre
At Will
Defferre
Justice
Robert Badinter
West Germany
Reagan rating hits new low in AP NBC poll
nationwide survey shows 37 percent say Reagan does a good or excellent job, down from 43 percent in June and 63 percent a year ago. Economic handling at 28 percent, foreign affairs at 34 percent, with broad dissatisfaction across Israel Arab states Western Europe and the Soviet Union relations.
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New York
Reagan
U.S
Israel
Lebanon
Middle East
Western Europe
Soviet Union
Black candidates emerge in Mississippi congressional primaries
James Saggus reports in Jackson that veteran state Rep Robert Clark leads four candidates in the 2nd District Democratic primary to become Mississippi’s first Black U.S. congressman in a century. Clark faces three white rivals Ollie Mohamed Ed Jackson and Pete Johnson with a runoff possible August 31 if no majority is reached.
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James Saggus
Jackson
Miss
Robert Clark
Mississippi
U.S
Clark
Ebeniezer
Mississipi
David Bowen
D-Miss
Ollie Mohamed
Belzoni
Ed Jackson
Cleveland
Pete Johnson
Fandson
Paul Johnéoff Sr
Webb Franklin
Greenwood
Clennon King
Lexington
Miami
Ed Pittman
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New England
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Southern
Plateau Region
Lower
Mississippi Valley
Upper
Great Lak
Kimberly Stevens
Lillé
Mae Mitchell
Wilkinsburg
Yester Y
Derrell Stevens
Winter Brandy
Jamie Whitten
House Appropriations Committee
Rep
G.V. Montgomery
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Whitten
Jim Richardson
Corinth
Highway Department
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