Army weapons theft exposed by Senate GAO hearings
Former Army sergeant Shawn F Helmer faced arrest after offering stolen anti-tank rockets and grenades to undercover agents. Congress probes show widespread loss and weak controls across the armed services, with GAO reporting 445 explosive related bombings from 1976 to 1985 and calls for stricter Pentagon safeguards.
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Shawn F. Helmer
Tampa
Fla
Helmer
Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Congressional
Senate
Army
General Accounting Office
Congress
GAO
Senate Armed Services Committee
Firearms Bureau
United States
Idaho
Air Force Inspector General
Florida
Wilson
Pentagon
Armed Services
The War Against The Drug Plague
A Los Angeles Times Syndicate column argues the cocaine crisis requires both supply and demand actions. It criticizes Reagan’s limited strategy and urges society to fund and embrace voluntary and workplace measures while addressing costs and coercion concerns.
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New York City
Ronald Reagan
White House
Reagan
Nancy
Washington
South Africa
Judiciary Committee
Justice Rehnquist
Vermont
Arizona
Bolivia
Peru
To the United States and liberty on July Fourth toast
A newspaper clipping reflects on Henry Laurens’s 1778 toasts and a Times letter arguing about women’s rights. It notes Laurens’s July 4 1778 meeting at City Tavern Philadelphia and references battles at Lexington Concord Trenton Saratoga Monmouth.
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Bolivia
Henry Laurens
South Carolina
Congress
New York Times
Jack O’keefe
Laurens
City Tavern
Philadelphia
United States of America
America
Burgoyne
Charleston
S.C
Monmouth Courthouse
N.J
The
Times
Gabrielle Bernard
Bernard
Reagan line-item veto urged after Gramm Rudman ruling
Editorial argues Congress erred by delegating spending powers and endorses giving President Reagan a line-item veto and impoundment authority. It cites a 7-2 Supreme Court decision striking down a budget-cutting provision, urging stronger executive role to curb deficits beyond 1986 projections.
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Congress
Supreme Court
Reagan
Richard Nixon
White House
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Kiddo
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Justice
Miss Liberty
Norma
Rocky Mountains
MR. Redfern
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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