Pilot disarms hijacker on Miami bound United flight
A 23 year old Cuban refugee Guillermo Alza ro Mejor Diaz threatened to blow up United Airlines Flight 674 unless diverted to Cuba to attend his mother's funeral. The pilot landed in Miami where Diaz was subdued by a passenger and a crewmember as the FBI charged him with air piracy. No one was injured among the 92 passengers and nine crew.
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Miami
UPI
United Airlines
Havana
FBI
Guillermo Alzaro Mejor Diaz
Chicago
U.S
United
Robert Mills
Diaz
Cuba
Mills
Kobs
Everglades
Hospitals eye CAT scan unit and campus expansion
St John and West Shore osteopathic hospitals plan a 838000 CAT scan unit within 12 months and seek better south access via Bassett Stearns Road. St John restricts sterilization to its 100 bed wing while West Shore permits it. Far West mental health center considers a campus move. Columbia Township trustees schedule planning for a 175th birthday July 4 homecoming at Columbia Park with community involvement.
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Rowland
St. John Hospital
West Shore Osteopathic Hospital
St. John and
West Shore
Bassett-Stearns Road
Hilliard Boulevard
Center Ridge Road
Far West Mental Health Center
North Olmsted
Columbia
Columbia Park
Cuyahoga River
UAW session on Elyria GM status discusses future plant
UAW Local 780 will hold a 9 am meeting at its Lowell Street hall to review GM Elyria Fisher Body plant prospects. President Larry Tanner seeks clarity on cutbacks at Cleveland area Fisher plants and possible union concessions to keep Elyria employed.
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General Motors
Elyria Fisher
United Auto Workers
Lowell Street
Larry Tanner
Cleveland Area
Fisher
Elyria
Fisher Body
Coit Road
Cleveland
Tanner
UAW International
Douglas
Fraser
Nationalevel
Polish TV accuses Solidarity of covert anti state plot
Warsaw state television claims anti Communist extremists infiltrated Solidarity to seize power and settle scores with the Reds. It cites the Con federation of Independent Poland KPN forming clandestine structures within Solidarity cells, leading to a para military vigilante group and anti state propaganda. The report notes KPN activity in Katowice and other provinces and cities, while leading Solidarity members allegedly pushed subversive actions. A parallel dispatch covers Jaruzelski's Moscow trip and Brezhnev backing of Poland's crackdown amid war threat warnings.
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Warsaw
Poland
UPI
Solidarity
Confederation of Independent Poland
KPN
Katowice
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Moscow
Jozef Wiejacz
Rzeczpospolita
Wiejacz
Jaruzelski
Leonid Brezhnev
Reagan pressures Congress on 1983 budget plan in California trip
President Reagan hardened his stance on the 1983 budget as he left for California, giving Congress a week to weigh alternatives to his plan. He disputed any fundamental tax cut or defense changes while privately open to piecemeal revenue ideas and possible military budget adjustments amid signs of a slowing economy.
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Brewer
Charles’ Fair
D-2
Arthur Weber
Howard Coleman
D-7
Washington
UPI
Reagan
California
Congress
Cheyenne
Wyo
Malcolm Wallop
R-Wyo
Albuquerque
Harrison Schmitt
R-N.m
Los Angeles
Senate
Howard Baker
White House
Larry Speakes
Speakes
Baker
Dinner guests test limits of governor's openness in Maryland
In Annapolis, Governor Hughes hosted a legislators dinner with guests from diverse backgrounds. A designated prison inmate could not attend, and a gun control request by a six year old featured in the evening. Delegate David Shapiro organized an essay contest to select guests, later claiming the dinner "buried the dinner knife" and that ties were healed.
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Annapolis
Harry Hughes
Government House
Hughes
David Shapiro
Baltimore
Patricia
Shapiro
Jacqueline Beth Filtzer
NBC reporters wounded in El Salvador attack near Tres Calles
NBC News producers and a Salvadoran driver were injured when their van was ambushed by gunmen as they rushed to a guerrilla raid on a military post in Tres Calles east of San Salvador. The driver and three NBC crew members were treated at a San Salvador hospital.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
UPI
NBC
Tres Calles
Ing
Policlinica Hospital
New York City
Ron Najman
U.S
Deane H. Hinton
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Lorain
UAW
Union
Senate Finance Committee
Governor
Eastern Shore
General Assembly
Adon Garcia
Douglas Davenport
Allen Stecker
Atlanta
Hinton
Santa Tecla
Jose Guillermo Garcia
Guazapa
Atlacatl
Garcia
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