Ring found after 27 years in grocery store toilet
Robert Kemp, an insurance executive from Munster Indiana, had dropped his Mount Carmel High School Class of 1960 ring into a toilet tank 27 years ago. A demolition crew repairing the store retrieved the ring after Kemp offered a reward, revealing the tarnished but intact school insignia on the red stone.
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Chicago
Robert Kemp
Mount Carmel Catholic High School
Kemp
Munster
Ind
Couple wins Hawaii trip in 58 hour kiss event
Pete and Mary ellen Polichetti beat five other kissing couples to win a Hawaii trip after smooching for 58 hours at the Great American Kiss-Off. The event began February 14 and ended February 16 with Stacy Thompson and Dennis Saucedo also taking the sponsor's prize.
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Dallas
Pete
Maryellen Polichetti
Hawaii
Polichetti
Dennis Saucedo
Stacy Thompson
Barbara Hyer
Harvey Hotel
Thompson
Saucedo
Hyer
Rainy Weekend Forecast With Cloudy Skies
The weekend starts with a 30 percent chance of rain and mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures reach the upper 50s during the day and drop to the low 30s at night. Details on Page 10A.
Obituary notices for several regional residents
Deaths Norman C. Bauman Buffalo NY Lizzie C. Crawford Allendale Hugh A. Rhodes Jr Martinez C. Broddus Shull Williston Emmie B. Shull Lexington Cleveland W. Wall Beech Island Joe T. Youngblood Columbia Details listed on Page 3B.
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Norman C. Bauman
Buffalo
N.Y
Lizzie C. Crawford
Allendale
Hugh A. Rhodes Jr
Martinez C. Broddus Shull
Williston
Emmie B. Shull
Lexington
Cleveland
W. Wall
Beech Island
Joe T. Youngblood
Columbia
U S GNP Rises 1 3 Percent in Fourth Quarter
The Commerce Department reports the 1986 fourth quarter GNP grew 1.3 percent annualized, revised down from 1.7 percent. Inflation cooled to 0.7 percent, the best in nearly two decades, while consumer spending slipped 0.1 percent. Exports rose 12 percent as imports fell 0.3 percent.
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Washington
U.S
Commerce Department
Aiken County Board of Education election plan rejected
The South Carolina House rejected a two year phased single member representation plan for Aiken County Board of Education and approved an amendment to hold all nine seats in a single August 1987 special election. Lawmakers expect third reading today before sending to the Senate.
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S.C. House of Representatives
Aiken
Justice Department
Office of Civil Rights
House
Huff
Irene Rudnick
D-Aiken
Reagan conflicting statements questioned on Iran arms shipment
The Los Angeles Times reports President Reagan gave conflicting accounts about approving Israel's first arms shipment to Iran. The Times says Reagan told the Tower commission on January 26 he approved the 1985 shipment, but on February 11 he said he had not authorized it after discussion with Don Reagan.
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Washington
Reagan
Israel
Iran
White House
Los Angeles Times
Presidential Commission
John Tower
Texas
Don Regan
Baltimore Sun
Regan
Senate
Manucher Ghorbanifar
Reagan says he will not block Regan resignation
President Reagan says he will not block his embattled chief of staff Donald Regan if he wants to leave but Regan says he's not going anywhere. The Washington Post report sparked fresh rumors that Regan would resign within weeks. Reagan declined to judge his future.
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Washington
Reagan
Donald Regan
Regan
Washington Post
Nancy Reagan
Post
Reagan approves shipment claim raised by McFarlane
Former White House adviser Robert C. McFarlane testified Reagan approved the shipment. A Tower Commission spokesman said panel members were to question McFarlane in his Bethesda Naval Medical Center hospital room today.
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White House
Robert C. McFarlane
Reagan
Tower Commission
McFarlane
Bethesda Naval Medical Center
Dissident Doctor Koryagin Freed by Soviet Union
Soviet Foreign Ministry reports also pardoned dissident Josef Begun as Anatoly Koryagin, a psychiatrist imprisoned since 1981, is freed and returns home to Kharkov. Bonner and Bukovsky Foundation confirm release in Kiev with potential emigration pressures.
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Moscow
Yelena Bonner
Foreign Ministry
Josef Begun
Bonner
Koryagin
Kharkov
Netherlands
Bukovsky Foundation
Kiev
The
Foundation
Galina
Soviet Union
Switzerland
Siberian
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