Oil ministers press for unified OPEC price cut stand
Paris talks bring Venezuela Mexico Algeria and Kuwait oil ministers before a new push for a coordinated price reduction. Saudi Arabia and Libya also discuss a unified OPEC cut in Riyadh as sources say consensus among all 13 members seems unlikely.
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Paris
Venezuela
Mexico
Algeria
Kuwait
Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Riyadh
Kamel Hassan Maghar
OPEC
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Reagan and O Neill split on retirement age plan
President Reagan and House Speaker Thomas P O Neill Jr clash over raising the retirement age to sustain Social Security into the next century. Reagan supports extra years while O Neill opposes any change, both backing the National Commission on Social Security Reform recommendations to fix short term solvency.
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Washington
Reagan
Thomas P. O’neill Jr
O'Neill
Massachusetts
O’neill
National Commission On Social Security Reform
Vast Intergalactic Hydrogen Cloud Hints at Missing Mass Link
Cornell University researchers report a giant neutral hydrogen cloud drifting among galaxies may connect to the universe’s missing mass. Detected accidentally last month with the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico it is the first such cloud found outside a galaxy.
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Washington
Cornell University
Puerto Rico
State Officials See Unemployment Near Bottom Despite Rural Hardship
South Carolina officials say unemployment may have hit rock bottom though four rural counties show severe joblessness. January rates rose to 11.6 percent from 11.1, with 171,100 workers unemployed nationally. Union County records 24.1 percent, Marlboro County 22.5 percent, among the state’s 46 counties.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Union County
Marlboro County
Pee Dee
South Carolina Senate Takes Up Nuclear Waste Bill
A bill to bar imports storage and reprocessing of foreign nuclear waste in South Carolina advances from the Senate Medical Affairs Committee to the full Senate floor. The measure would prevent the Barnwell Nuclear Fuels Plant from handling spent fuel or radioactive waste from other countries.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Senate
Senate Medical Affairs Committee
Barnwell
Intermediate Appeals Court Tentatively Approved in South Carolina
South Carolina may establish an intermediate appeals court by July 1 if the General Assembly approves. The House gave tentative approval to a bill creating a court that would operate until June 30, 1985, while a constitutional court would take effect if final approval is reached. The move aims to ease a three year backlog in the state Supreme Court.
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South Carolina
General Assembly
House of Representatives
Constitutional Court
Supreme Court
Health tips from famous faces in Week of the Strong Child
Sesame Street’s Big Bird Burt Reynolds Abigail Van Buren Nancy Reagan and Richard Burton joined more than 20 others in the University of Rochester Medical Center Week of the Strong Child event urging healthy habits for students. Burton spoke candidly about his battle with alcoholism and poetry as his first love. New York Mayor Ed Koch arranged a Lebanon visit by helicopter, navigating State Department concerns and a compromise to fly from Tel Aviv to Beirut via the USS Nimitz.
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Abigail van Buren
Mab Alanba
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester
N.Y
Dorothy Wardell
Nancy Reagan
New York
ED Koch
Lebanon
State Department
Philip Habib
Reagan
Middle East
Koch
Israel
Tel Aviv
Nimitz
Beirut
Whodunnit spoof leads Aiken Heart Board benefit
The 1983 Aiken Women’s Heart Board annual benefit features Who dunnit a spoof on Sam Spade with six detectives and Shylock Clones. Ann Cofer leads as chief private eye with Rhoda Burns and Lori Braun. Clyde Ward plays Sam McGraw the dead man.
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Aiken Women’s Heart Board
Sam Spade
Jim Moore
Shylock
Ann Cofer
Rhoda Burns
Lori Braun
Ward
Society
Who’s Who
Aiken
Molly Gray
Mary Jo Wilson
Karen Edwards
George Gilmer
Donna
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