LYCOS RETRIEVER 
1983: United States
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Harold Washington became the city's first African American Mayor when he was inaugurated April 29, 1983. He won the Democratic Primary February 22, 1983, defeating Mayor Jane M. Byrne and Cook County States Attorney Richard M. Daley. He carried the Mayoral General Election on April 12, 1983 against Republican candidate Bernard E. Epton.
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The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles has ruled that a decedent's representative may recover emotional distress damages in a section 1983 civil rights action. It determined that California's statutory bar to such damages offended the policies underlying section 1983.
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Two other dissidents released in 1983 were Vasyl Barladianu, a 42-year-old art historian, and Taras Melnychuk, 51. Mr. Barladianu completed a three-year term for "slandering the Soviet state;" while Mr. Melnychuk, a veteran of the Ukrainian national movement, finished a four-year stretch for "hooliganism."
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