Kremlin signals detente return amid Politburo meeting
Tass reports the Soviet Union is ready to pursue peaceful coexistence while opposing space based missile defense. Gorbachev is named first in the dispatch, with Tikhonov and Gromyko highlighted as leaders. Reagan presses for a U S Soviet summit and MX missile funding as Geneva talks loom.
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Switzerland
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Andrei A. Gromyko
South Africa clashes deepen as police kill in Langa protest
In an 18 to 43 death toll dispute, police fired on a 3000 to 4000 strong funeral march in Langa near Port Elizabeth on the Sharpeville anniversary. Opposition leader Helen Suzman condemned the use of force as panic, while international leaders and groups called for restraint and inquiry.
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Reagan
U.S
African National Congress
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French vice consul kidnapped in west Beirut amid wave of Western abductions
Three gunmen abducted France's vice consul Marcel Fontaine as he walked to the French Embassy in west Beirut. The incident marks the fourth Western kidnapping in eight days in the area. Two French Embassy staff members, Marcel Carton and his daughter Danielle Perez, did not report to work. their status was unclear. Islamic Holy War claimed prior kidnappings and warned Westerners to leave Beirut.
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China pledges wider opening to foreign capital
China plans a broader welcome to foreign investment with no cap on total inflows under the new foreign contracts law passed by the National People’s Congress. The law allows parties to choose governing law, defaults to Chinese rules for ventures and resources projects, and enables arbitration or Chinese courts for disputes.
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Three Afghans Detained in Soviet Envoy Killing Probe
Police hunting two assassins who killed Valentine Khitrichenko near the Soviet Embassy raided Afghan Iranian and other refugee and student homes. Three Afghan men with possible links to anti Soviet militants were detained as investigators questioned many others at airport and transit routes.
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Redgrave deems death a cruel theater loss in tribute
Sir Michael Redgrave dies at 76, just after his birthday, in a Denham nursing home. Fellow stars and critics eulogize the knighted actor as a cruel loss to the stage, with son Colm at his bedside and daughters Vanessa and Lynn cited among his proud children. PMID
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Netherlands frees former SS officer Menten for good behavior
Former Nazi SS officer Pieter Menten, who served six years for complicity in murders of Jews in Nazi occupied Poland, was freed early for good behavior. He was whisked from Scheveningen prison after midnight and taken to Blaricum, where he lived before his 1976 arrest.
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Army uproots 50,000 peasants for shelling zones in Nicaragua
Nicaragua's army plans to relocate about 50,000 peasants from northern war zones to clear a tree fire zone and enable intensified shelling of rebel positions. The move began last month and will last two years, costing 32 million dollars, per Eduardo Bernheim, director for Matagalpa and northern Jinotega. In Brazil, riot probes follow mass inmate violence in Sao Paulo prison. nine convicts die as police storm the facility.
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