Marine halt of Israeli tanks in Beirut sparks commendation bid
In Beirut a lone U.S. Marine Captain Charles B. Johnson drew a pistol and leaped onto a lead Israeli tank, warning it would pass only over his dead body as two other tanks approached a Marine area. Defense Secretary Weinberger said Johnson conveyed the ultimatum and recommended for commendation.
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Beirut
Lebanon
U.S
Charles B. Johnson
Washington
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Johnson
Violence in Truckers Strike Subsides in South Carolina
In Columbia South Carolina the Highway Patrol reported a quiet scene as violence linked to the independent truckers strike subsided for now. Major J H Lanier said most drivers appeared to follow the patrols nighttime advice and stay off the roads.
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South Carolina
Columbia
All
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J.H. Lanier
State Highway Patrol
Ghanaians Expelled From Nigeria Create National Crisis
In Lagos AP reports hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians expelled from Nigeria strain Ghana's food supplies and spark a national crisis. Ghanaian Interior Minister Johnny Hansen said it is difficult for a small country to repatriate 1 million citizens in two weeks after talks with Nigerian officials.
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Lagos
Nigeria
Ghana
Johnny Hansen
Hansen
Reagan Advisers Weigh Jobs Program and Relief Plan
Washington AP report says at GOP leaders urging President Reagan’s top aides are weighing a federal jobs program and emergency relief for homeless victims of the recession. White House Chief of Staff James Baker held preliminary meetings with White House staff but no specific proposals were agreed on, according to Republican sources.
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Washington
Reagan
White House
James Baker
Bond Denied for Two in Massive Cocaine Case
U S District Judge Charles E Simons Jr refused bond for Newby Love 47 of Columbia and Susan Youngblood 40 of Stone Mountain Ga in one of the largest cocaine seizures in U S history citing their risk to witnesses He also cut bonds for Hernan Restrepo 42 of Youngstown Fla and Juan Carlos Ruis 20 of Miami from 5 million to 2 million
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Columbia
U.S
Charles E. Simons Jr
Newby Love
Susan Youngblood
Stone Mountain
Hernan DeJesus Restrepo
Youngstown
Fla
Juan Carlos Ruis
Miami
Appointment Plan Bad Idea, According To Ethics Chairman
Columbia AP The Senate Ethics Committee chair Thomas Lake says a plan allowing a suspended legislator to be replaced by a senior member of the House or Senate is a bad idea. He prefers a statute achieving the same goals without interim appointments. The ethics panel sent Garrison’s resolution and two bills to subcommittee for study. Lake’s bill will be considered at the next meeting.
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Columbia
Senate Ethics Committee
House
Senate
Lake
T. Ed Garrison
D-Newberry
Garrison
Bostic Elected to Clemson Board First Black Trustee
James Bostic of Aiken was elected by the General Assembly to the Clemson University Board of Trustees becoming the first black member. He chairs the state Commission on Higher Education and fills the unexpired term after Kenneth Cribb’s death. Billy Amick and Judy Bridges also won seats in the Clemson and Family Court posts respectively.
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Columbia
James Bostic
Aiken
Clemson University Board of
Bostic
General Assembly
State Commission On Higher Education
Clemson Board
Kenneth Cribb
Clemson
Billy Amick
Batesbury
Amick
Les Tindal
Judy Bridges
Bridges
City of
Charleston
Anthony O’neill
O'Neill
Charleston County
Jasper Cureton
Harold Boulware
Boulware
Jamie Lee
Marlboro County
Lee
Leroy Want
Debate On Tax Proposals Hits South Carolina House Floor
In Columbia AP reports the House opens a tax debate with many bills proposing sales tax hikes and varying property tax relief. Gov Riley backs a tax equity package including a penny sales tax rise and a $10000 homestead exemption funded by the new revenue.
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Columbia
House
Dick Riley
Riley
Tom Mangum
Lancaster
Mangum
Ways and Means Committee
Joseph Anderson
D-Edgefield
S.C
House of Representatives
Debate over retirement age threatens Social Security rescue plan
A dispute over raising the retirement age jeopardizes a $168 billion plan from the National Commission on Social Security Reform. Rep Claude Pepper said he will oppose the package if the age is raised, risking bipartisan support as Ways and Means committee hearings probe the financing crisis and proposed tax and benefit changes.
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Washington
National Commission On Social Security Reform
House
Ways and Means
Health and Human Services
Richard S. Schweiker
Social Security
John A. Svahn
Reform Commission
Ways and Means Committee
Claude Pepper
Congress
Florida
Freeman challenges Mead on Samoa in new anthropology study
Derek Freeman, emeritus professor at Australian National University, contends Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa misrepresents Samoan life. He says competition, aggression, and strict Protestant influences shaped society and adolescence, contradicting Mead’s serene portrait and noting police records show authority offenses. Mead’s Samoa work covered Aug 1925 to May 1926. she was 23 then and died in 1978.
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Cambridge, Mass
Samoa
Margaret Mead
Miss Mead
Derek Freeman
Australian National University At
Canberra
Freeman
Blizzard Strands 42 Students as California Snow Deepens
A two foot snow dump in Southern California leaves 42 schoolchildren stranded at Pine Valley Junior High as buses fail to pass. Parents retrieve all students after roads clear, while 30 more children remain at a Alpine community center in San Diego County.
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California
Midwest
Florida
Pennsylvania
San Diego County
Pine Valley
Carolyn Harshman
Alpine
San Diego
Rockefeller urged tax hike on top earners in West Virginia
Gov. Jay Rockefeller seeks higher personal income tax for rich residents as his 1981 gross income reached 2.7 million dollars and federal taxable income over 2 million. The current state levy would amount to about 186 637 dollars on 2 million, with variations by deductions.
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Jay Rockefeller
West Virginia
Rockefeller
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