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Finally, the weeks of confusion and political conniving had come to an end. Bored though they were by a debate that had droned on for more than five hours, members of West Germany's parliament watched closely as Bundestag President Richard Stücklen rose to make a curt announcement: the opposition motion of no confidence in the minority government of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had carried by a vote of 256 to 235, with four abstentions. While colleagues began congratulating Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl, the Christian Democratic Party chairman grinned broadly as he acknowledged the results of the ballot...
...will undoubtedly need help from abroad. President Reagan sent a congratulatory letter on July 1 to Argentina's freshly inaugurated President, Reynaldo Bignone, saying that he attached "great importance" to restoring friendly relations between the U.S. and Argentina in the wake of the Falklands conflict. Bignone's curt reply was that the chilly relations were the result of U.S. economic sanctions imposed on Argentina during the South Atlantic...
...DIED. Curt Jurgens, 69, imposing, sometimes villainous international stage and screen actor whose more than 160 films included The Devil's General (1955), The Blue Angel (1959), The Longest Day (1962) and The Enemy Below (1957); of heart disease; in Vienna...
...Curt Flood, 2. Nolan Ryan, Sandy Koufax, Rube Waddell. Bob Feller. Sam McDowell, Walter Johnson, Steve Carlton, Mickey Lolich. Vida Blue and J R Richard Waddell was the first to fan more than 300, doing it in 1903. 3. Gary Templetion in 1919. 4. a) Carl Mays 1920, b) Gill McDongald, c) Earl Averill. 5. California Angels: Reggie Jackdon, Fred Lynn, Don Baylor and Rod Carew, Kansas City Royals: Vida Blue, George Brett, Boston Red Sox: Carl Yazstremski, Jim Rice, Philadelphia Phillies: Pete Rose, Mike Sehmidt, Pittsburgh Pirates: Dave Parker, Willie Stargell, 6. Juan Marichal won 26 games...
Wide Receivers--Curt Grieve, Yale, 6-4, 200, Senior, Mount Lebanon, Pa; Derek Graham, Princeton, 5-10, 170, Sophomore, Los Angeles, Calif...