Love stories span borders as Soviet exile finds America
The tale follows Liza Alexeyeva gaining exit from the Soviet Union to join husband Alexei Semyonov in Massachusetts. Their proxy Montana wedding, emigration papers, and a 17 day hunger strike by Semyonov’s mother and Andrei Sakharov drew global attention. They plan US citizenship and a hopeful, hard life in America. Billy Graham draws record Blackpool crowd while Gerald Ford announces a new granddaughter Rebekah Elizabeth Ford. A conductor preserves Montemezzi score after a near discard, ensuring the opera's markings survive for a new NY production.
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Liza Alexeyeva
Soviet Union
Alexei Semyonov
Massachusetts
Semyonov
Boston
Yelena Bonner
Andrei Sakharov
Alexeyeva
Butte
Mont
Brandeis University
Montana
America
Semyoniov
United States
Russia
John Maucert
New York City Opera
Italo Montemezzi
Mauceri
Howard Scott
G. Schirmer & Co
Scott
Metropolitan Opera
Montemezzi
Schirmer
Winter storm sweeps plains to Great Lakes with deadly toll
A late-winter storm delivers up to a foot of snow in the west and six inches in the east, closing hundreds of schools from Nebraska to Ohio and triggering icy roads. The system, moving through the Plains to the Great Lakes, has blamed deaths, subzero highs, and travel chaos across major cities including Chicago and Cleveland suburbs. Weather alerts stretch from Nebraska to Michigan and Maryland, with travelers warned of slick conditions and mass transit delays.
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Great Lakes
Nebraska
Ohio
Paul Ugrinic
Cleveland
Shaker Heights
Michigan
Montana
Mississippi Valley
Mercury
Trout Lake
Ironwood
Duluth
Minn
May Root
National Weather Service
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Lincoln
mid-Mississippi Valley
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Kansas
Indiana
Arkansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Maryland
Virginia
Chicago
Missouri
Iowa
Colorado
Appalachians
Mid- Atlantic
United Press Internation
Road bid rigging probe expands to five new states
The Justice Department antitrust inquiry into highway contractor bid rigging widens as federal grand juries operate in 18 states. New investigations include Iowa Maryland and Oklahoma with unnamed additional states likely New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. The probe has produced 131 criminal cases in 10 states involving 119 corporations and 147 executives.
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Washington
Justice Department
U.S
Mark T. Sheehan
Yester Y
Iowa
Maryland
Oklahoma
Sheehan
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Antitrust Division
Kentucky
Arkansas
Belfast vote key for Paisley
In Belfast South, the special election could decide whether Rev. Ian Paisley leads Northern Ireland’s Protestants. Rival candidates Rev. William McCrea and Rev. Martin Smyth vie for the seat held by the late Rev. Robert Bradford, amid party splits and tensions over future unionist leadership and the province’s political future.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
South Belfast
Ian Paisley
Paisley
House of Commons
William McCrea
Martin Smyth
Orange Order
Democratic Unionist Party
Smyth
Official Unionist
Robert Bradford
Irish Republican Army
Robert McCartney
the Alamo
Bradford
Reagan rests on mountain retreat after wedding anniversary
President Reagan begins a four day private vacation at a Santa Barbara area ranch to celebrate his 30th wedding anniversary while defusing Republican discontent over his budget deficit. He toned down harsh remarks about GOP lawmakers and spoke with Senate leader Baker to clause concerns.
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Los Angeles
Reagan
Nancy
Santa Barbara
Capitol Hill
Senate
Howard Baker
Tennessee
Tom Griscom
Cheyenne
Wyo
Albuquerque
N.M
Washington
Potomac
US asks pipeline pact amid European role in Soviet project
The Reagan administration nears a decision on blocking European participation and financing in a Soviet gas pipeline to Western Europe while pressuring allies to renounce future such financing. Officials say further pressure may backfire as West Germany France Italy fund and will buy gas, with flow set for 1984. Buckley mission postponed, further actions held in abeyance pending consultations.
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Washington
Reagan
Poland
Siberia
Europe
West Germany
France
Italy
State Department
Soviet Union
James L. Buckley
Buckley
Dean Fischer
NATO arms inadequate says general at Harvard
NATO's conventional weapons are in bad shape and threaten either escalation to nuclear arms or capitulation against a Soviet attack, Gen Bernard Rogers told a Harvard seminar. He urged boosting conventional forces and noted members were asked to raise spending 4 percent annually 1983 to 1988 to meet the Soviet threat by 1990. He added six of 13 alliance members exceeded the inflation-linked target last year.
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NATO
Europe
Alliance
Gen
Bernard Rogers
Harvard University
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Rogers
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