Debt bill swamped with pet projects and amends
The Senate uses the national debt bill to carry diverse pet projects from free feed for farmers to plant power policies. Leader Dole warns the measure is burdened as amendments pile on. Congress may need a separate debt increase to cover obligations while Treasury nears its $2.079 trillion ceiling and seeks funds by Sept 2.
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Washington
Senate
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Congress
Treasury
Sanctions Seen As Inevitable In South Africa
A fifth person died from a butcher shop bomb blast in Walvis Bay, two police officers were wounded in an ambush, and two independent papers predicted inevitable economic sanctions. Denise Beets, a white woman, died from bombing injuries. the attack also killed two blacks and two mixed-race individuals and injured 23. A separate limpet mine blast at a Cape Town suburb post office caused minor injuries to the postmaster.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Denise Beets
Walvis Bay
South-West Africa
Government Bureau For Information
Cape Town
Weather outlook with afternoon storms and heat peak
The forecast calls for a 30 percent chance of afternoon thundershowers today dropping to 20 percent tonight. Tonight's low near 70. Tomorrow looks partly sunny with a 20 percent afternoon shower chance and a high in the mid 90s. Details on Page 8B.
Obituary notices listed for several residents
Deaths announce Pinkney Abney Aiken Alfred W Davis Roberta Howell John R Lee Ann E W Leguote Mary M Minick detailed on page 10A with locations Aiken Thomson Statesboro Opa-locka Columbia and Augusta Georgia Florida dates and services to follow.
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Pinkney Abney
Aiken
Alfred W. Davis
Augusta
Roberta Howell
Thomson
John R. Lee
Statesboro
Ann E.W. Leguote
Opa
Visit a Nuclear Plant This Summer Demystified by Forum
The Atomic Industrial Forum promotes nuclear plant visits as a learning experience. A pamphlet lists 89 energy information centers across the United States and Canada, including 54 at nuclear plants. Three Mile Island drew 85,000 visitors in 1984. total plant tours reached about 1 million that year.
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Washington
The
Atomic Industrial Forum
Scott Peters
Forum
Peters
Chernobyl
U.S
Carl Walske
AIF
Walske
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
United States
Canada
Three Mile Island
U S Confused On Defense
A Media General AP poll shows most Americans think the United States can defend against nuclear attack but cannot name the key defense element. Deterrence is cited as the current defense, with Star Wars seen as a partial priority by about half.
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New York
United States
Associated Press
Reagan
U.S
Public opinion on Reagan Star Wars plan shown
A Star Wars defense plan poll finds 52 percent approve and 34 percent disapprove. Fifty percent see strong odds of deterring a Russian nuclear strike and 31 percent favor Star Wars defense spending while 52 percent favor conventional arms.
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Reagan
Shcharansky Family Granted Soviet Exit Permits
Leonid Shcharansky announced that he his mother his wife and two children have permission to leave the Soviet Union to join Anatoly Shcharansky in Jerusalem. An exit deadline by Aug 23 was given and a lengthy emigration process will follow.
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Moscow
Anatoly B. Shcharansky
Soviet Union
Israel
Leonid Shcharansky
Associated Press
Anatoly Shcharansky
Avital
Ida Milgrom
Alexander
Boris
Tel Aviv
Israel Radio
Jerusalem
Shcharansky
West Germany
United States
U.S
New York Times
Miss Milgrom
Supreme Soviet
Downpour Fails to Save Dry South Crops
A weekend downpour drew 1,500 people indoors as agriculture officials say the rain is too late to aid drought‑stricken crops from Pennsylvania to Florida. Hay shipments from Kentucky arrived in Charlotte to feed starving livestock, while floods and heat killed scores and kept South Carolina and Atlanta above 90 degrees for weeks.
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South
Vayde White
Kentucky
Charlotte
Pennsylvania
Florida
Midwest
South Carolina
Atlanta
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