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 Adams, Bryan
 Al-Assad, Hafiz
 Alia, Ramiz
 Amiss, Kingsley
 Anne
 Aquino, Maria Corazon
 Archer, Jeffrey
 Assad, Hafez Al
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 Bhutto, Benazir
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 Boll, Heinrich
 Bon, Simon John Charles Le
 Botha, Pieter
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 Bowie, David
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 Cavaco Silva, Anibal
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 Dahab, Abdel Rahman Swar al-
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 Entwistle, John
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 Estenssoro, Victor Paz
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 Fabius, Laurent
 Ferguson, Alexander Chapman
 FitzGerald, Garrett
 Furgler, Kurt
 Gaddafi, Muammar Muhammed
 Garcia Perez, Alan
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 Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
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 Gromyko, Andrei Andreyevich
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 Husak, Gustav
 Hussein, Saddam
 Ichiro, Ozawa
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 Jiadung, Qian
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 Khomeini, Ruhollah
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 Lodge, Henry Cabot
 Lubbers, Rudolph Franz Marie
 Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
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 Marti, Jose
 Masire, Quett Ketumile Joni
 Mengele, Josef
 Messner, Zbigniew
 Michael, George
 Mwinyi, Ali Hassan
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 Nimeiry, Gaafar Muhammad an-
 Nixon, Richard Mulhouse
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 Shevardnadze, Eduard
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   Agreement Anglo Irish   Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
  15th Nov Belfast   Signs an agreement in Belfast with Dr FitzGerald
  15th Nov   Sets up an Inter-Government Conference of to give the Republic a say in Nth Ireland
  15th Nov Hillsborough   Signs power sharing agreement at Hillsborough with the Irish Government
  15th Nov Ulster   Catholics, Protestants & the Republic have a say in Ulster
  16th Nov   Ulster Unionist leaders announce that all 15 Unionist MP's at Westminster will resign
  27th Nov London   The Agreement is approved in Parliament by 473 votes to 47
   Ambassador   Jiadung, Qian
   Geneva   Appointed Ambassador to the United Nations
   Ambassador   Hillary, Edmund Percival
   New Delhi Zealand   Appointed NewZealand High Commissioner (Ambassador) to India, Nepal and Bangladesh, and spends four and a half years based in New Delhi
   ANC   Masire, Quett Ketumile Joni
   Gaborone   Buildings in Gaborone are raided and 12 people are killed by SouthAfrican forces seeking alleged ANC members, the action is condemned by UN Security Council
   Apartheid   Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
  16th Oct Nassau   Opposes sanctions on Sth Africa at the Nassau Commonwealth Conference
   Arcadia   Bon, Simon John Charles Le
     Le Bon forms the band Arcadia with fellow Duran Duran members Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor
   Armament   Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
  7th April   Russia announces a unilateral freeze of medium-rangeNuclear missiles
   Arrest   Peres, Shimon
  20th May   Israel frees 1,500 Palestinians for 3 Israeli soldiers
  1st July   Israel decides to release 300 of its 735 Shiite prisoners
   Arrest   Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen
     Arrested for speaking out against the military regime
   Arrest   Botha, Pieter
  10th Feb   Nelson Mandela rejects Botha's offer of conditional release
   Arrest   Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
  10th Feb   Nelson Mandela rejects Botha's offer of conditional release
   Assassination   Audran, Rene
  25th Jan   A director of French arms sales who is assassinted by Action Directe
   Assassination   Zimmerman, Ernst
     Assassinated by the Red Army Faction, an industrialist who made fighter jet engines
   Assassination   Bhutto, Benazir
  4th April   Benazir Bhutto's brother Shahnawaz is killed under suspicious circumstances in France
   Assassination   Popieluszko, Jerzy
  7th Feb Torun   4 Polish officers are given jail sentences
   Award Doctor of Music   Ritchie, Lionel
  12th May Alabama   Lionel Richie receives an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
   Award Oxford Doctorate   Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
  29th Jan Oxford   Academics have led a campaign against honouring Mrs Thatcher in protest against the government's cuts in funding for education
  29th Jan Oxford   Oxford University votes against the traditional honorary doctorate on a PM, the first Oxford-educated prime minister since the war to be denied the honour
   Battle of Dos Rios   Marti, Jose
   Dos Rios   Killed in battle fighting for Cuban independence from Spain