Vacation hijack to Cuba ends with arrests and jail threat
Delta Air Lines Flight 722 carrying 107 people was hijacked near Tampa by three Spanish speaking men two women a boy and a girl with a large doll. The group diverted to Havana where Cuban officers detained several relatives and a hostage crew member. Passengers recounted a claimed family on vacation motive and fear persisted as Cuban authorities prepared stiff sentences for the hijackers.
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Tampa
Fla
Cuba
Delta Air Lines
Miami-to- Tampa
Havana
Robert Butler
FBI
United States
Delta
Jim Ewing
Atlanta
Linda Mahy
Oldsmar
Begerano
Mariel
Adelaide Prado
Diane von Furstenberg sells cosmetics and fragrances unit
Diane von Furstenberg sold her cosmetics and fragrances business to Beecham Cosmetics for an undisclosed sum. She said the sale frees time to focus on developing products under her name and continuing involvement in the business.
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Diane von Furstenberg
Beecham Cosmetics
Pope John Paul II appeals from Castel Gandolfo balcony
From Castel Gandolfo the pope urges nations to decide their own destiny and calls for the release of missing Vatican employee’s daughter Emanuela Orlandi. In Rome a new recording purportedly features a distressed female voice linked to the kidnapping case, with one voice demanding the release of a papal assailant.
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John Paul II
Castel Gandolofo
Italy
Lebanon
Emanuela Orlandi
Vatican
Rome
Mehmet Ali Agea
Orlandi
Contadora leaders urge Reagan Castro to avert Central American war
Four Contadora Group presidents call for immediate demilitarization of Central America, end to arms smuggling and foreign intervention, and ban on foreign bases. They press Reagan and Castro to join in deescalation amid Nicaragua Honduras tensions, blaming U S and Cuba for the regional crisis.
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Mexico
Ronald Reagan
Fidel Castro
Central America
Contadora
Nicaragua
Honduras
Cuba
United States
Contadora Group
Reagan
Miguel de la Madrid
de la Madrid
Belisario Betancur
Colombia
Luis
Costa Rica
Nicaraguuan
Central American tensions rise over Nicaragua clash and foreign advisers
Cancun reports intensified attempts to overthrow Nicaragua’s leftist government with exiles basing in Costa Rica and Honduras. Contadora proposes a ban on cross border aggression, withdrawal of foreign advisers, and cites U.S. and Cuban involvement amid plans to train Salvadoran forces and arm Sandinistas.
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Iurita
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Contadora
Central Intelligence Agency
United States
Salvador
Cuba
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Jack Barker
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James Watt
Newsweek
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Bernstein
Britain
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Andrew
Newport
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New York
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Beechwood
Rhode Island Sound
Caroline Astor
Connie Welles
Diana
Connie
Susan Pierce
The
Victory '83 Syndicate
Castel Gandolfo
Cancun, Mexico
el Salvador
Ull Telephoto
Venezuela
Luis Herrera Campins
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