International Herald Tribune - Sunday, August 10
Sunday, August 10 - International Herald Tribune
Sunday, August 10 International Herald Tribune, France - 1980 - Two Britons, Telery Jones, 43, and her son Owen, 18, abducted off their farm by 20 pro-Cuban National Liberation Army guerillas on Jan. ... |
He is serving six consecutive terms of 25 years to life in stateprison. Highlights in history on thisdate: 1566 - Iconoclastic riots by fanatical Calvinists break out in theNetherlands. House defeats an end-the-war amendment for withdrawal of all U.S. King Hussein grants them politicalasylum. President Ronald Reagan signs a measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans interned by the U.S. Taiwan had severed plane service in April 1974, in retaliation for an aviation agreement Japan had signed withChina. Tensions remain in the region, exploding a year later in World WarI. The action makes it a crime to belong to the group, raise money for it, or participate inactivities. This was caused by a split in anti-war forces over the pullout date fromVietnam. Three-quarters of its inhabitants die of starvation during the 15-monthsiege.
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