Brink's case raises specter of terrorism
Eight years after Vietnam and the antiwar era, a new terror threat emerges in New York. Law enforcement links a May 19 Coalition joining Weather Underground remnants and the Black Liberation Army to a Brink's armored car raid in Rockland County. Police name Nat Burns and other suspects, with a nationwide web of bomb manuals and targets found in raids.
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Vietnam
Congress
United States
Europe
Ho Chi Minh
Old Weather Underground
Black Liberation Army
Coalition
Brink
Rockland County
Flushing
New York City
Nat Burns
Black Panther Party
Brooklyn
Bronx
East Orange
N.J
Manhattan
Queens County Courthouse
New York Subway
Clinton Pagano
New Jersey
Widow cries at grave of Brink’s guard in New Jersey
Josephine Paige, widow of Brink’s security guard Peter Paige, mourns at the grave site in South Brunswick after his funeral. Paige was killed during the bloodied 1.4 million bank robbery in Nyack, New York, on Tuesday. Police also carried the coffin of Nyack officer Wavery Brown, slain at a roadblock in Nanuet while pursuing suspects tied to the Brink’s raid.
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Josephine Paige
Brink
Peter Paige
South Brunswick
N.J
Paige
Nyack
N.Y
Wavery Brown
Pilgrim’s Church
Brown
Edward O’grady
Nanuet
UPI
Man on trial after vampire claim tied to grandmother's murder
Brockton Mass. James P. Riva II of Marshfield is tried for murder and arson in the 1980 death of his grandmother Carmen Lopez 74 who was confined to a wheelchair. Prosecutors say he shot beat and stabbed her then burned the house while the defense seeks insanity citing a belief he was a vampire and consumed blood.
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Brockton, Mass
UPI
James P. Riva II
Marshfield
Boston
Jamaica Plain
Carmen Lopez
John T. Spinale
Reagan says AWACS sale to Saudi Arabia may pass
President Reagan pressed a last‑minute push to win a Senate vote on the 85 billion AWACS arms deal with Saudi Arabia. He meets 18 senators and may telephone others, insisting the sale strengthens US and Israeli security amid Middle East tensions. Senate opposition was strong, but White House officials say the vote tally could tighten in the president's favor.
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Washington
UPI
Reagan
Saudi Arabia
Middle East
Andrews Air Force Base
Cancun
Mexico
Senate
United States
Israel
White House
Larry Speakes
Edward Zormnsky
D-Neb
Wiliam Armstrong
R-Colp
David Boren
Dokla
Bob Kasten
R-Wis
Charles Grassley
A-Iowa
Lloyd Bentsen
Texas
Howard Cannon
D-Nev
Congress
United Press International
Robert Byrd
West Virginia
Halloween masks boost fright with budget prices
Local retailers report costs remain surprisingly affordable for Halloween masks with common favorites including Super Heroes Sesame Street and Disney figures. Star Wars characters like Yoda are popular though surprisingly less in demand, and prices for single use masks hover around $1.99 to $6.99.
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Tom Carpenter
Zayre’s
Suspect in rape of nun arrested
Harold Wells, a former Chicago resident, was arrested with a girlfriend after confessing to the October 10 rape and torture of a 31 year old nun in East Harlem. Police said Wells feared a $25000 Mafia contract and fled New York for Chicago.
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Chicago
UPI
New York City
Harold Wells
Sugar
Greyhound
Thomas Kelley
Wells
New York
Kelley
Edward Koch
Max Lindman
Sisters of Charity
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
East Harlem
Lindman
Mayor Griff in Desegregation Busing Case to Supreme Court
Buffalo Mayor James Griffin appeals a May 19 1981 desegregation order forcing a city busing plan for 3000 students. He argues the city council must fund the plan and seeks standing to challenge the court order at the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court
Washington
UPI
Buffalo, N.Y
James Griffin
Boards of Education
Griffin
California
Buffalo
NAACP
U.S
John Curtin
Curtin
US. Circuit Court of Appeals
New York
Buffalo School Board
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Chicago Tribune
May 19 Coalition
FBI
Jeffrey Carl Jones
Eleanor Stein Reskin
Una Bes Vna Tuaweu
Gilbert Starkey
Starkey
The
Weather Underground
Katherine Boudin
David Gilbert
Judith Clark
Lane
Boudin
the Chronicle Telegram
East Avenue
P.O
Elyria
Ohio
East Ave
Ate
Lorain
Spinale
Riva
AWACS
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