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Syria frees captured U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Robert C. Goodman Jr. Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dies; Konstantin Chernenko is named to replace him. The Soviet Union withdraws from the summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards; 1000 are killed in anti-Sikh riots; her son Rajiv succeeds her. The Democratic National Convention nominates Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro, ...

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