Freedom's return for oil executive after five months in Nigerian prison
Herbert Rooks, 58, director of United States Oil, recounts five months in a Nigerian jail with only a green cloth for clothing. He was detained after passport seizures in Lagos on July 31 and held in isolation until November 23, later released to the American embassy without passports. He plans to fly to San Antonio as fog delays his Houston-to-San Antonio flight.
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Nigera
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Victona Island
Shuttle test exceeds expectations in cold booster firing
In Brigham City Utah NASA hailed a flawless second full scale test of the redesigned Space shuttle booster despite 25 degree cold 25 mph winds and light snow. Morton Thiokol engineers praised the corrective work and optimism for a June shuttle launch grew voiced by JR Thompson Allan McDonald and others.
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Huntsville
Ala
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Shuttle Engineering
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Cuomo son sues thrift chairwoman for libel in Broward
Andrew Cuomo, son of Governor Mario Cuomo, files a $10 million libel suit in Broward Circuit Court against Lynn Fenster Smith Reading, chairwoman of Oceanmark Federal Savings and Loan. He alleges a campaign of libel and slander and that she threatened to embarrass the Cuomo family if demands were not met.
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TMLA
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New York
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Oceanmark Federal Savings and Loan
Lynn Fenster Smith
U S reviewing Soviet SS-20 counts after arms pact talks
US intelligence revises missile estimates as DIA counts about 300 SS-20s, 30 percent above Soviet figures. Sources say Senate INF pact opponents plan to highlight the discrepancy to attack the treaty, with officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Navy awards contract for Advanced Tactical Aircraft
The Navy selected McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics to design and build a secret attack jet under an ATA program potentially worth 35 billion dollars, defeating Grumman Northrop and LTV teams. Reagan attacks State Department authorization changes, says he will seek repeal of provisions he calls contrary to constitutional foreign affairs duties in the two year 83 billion measure.
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