CIA Director Casey Silent After Brain Tumor Surgery
William Casey remains unable to speak or move the right side of his body after brain tumor surgery. ABC News cites unnamed sources saying he is clear minded and conscious, with little chance of returning to the CIA.
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CIA
William Casey
ABC News
Casey
Kathy Pherson
White House
Denny Brisley
Associated Press
Tracy Primrose
Georgetown University Hospital
Conservatives Rally To Defend Reagan In Washington
About 200 conservatives gathered near the White House to defend President Reagan amid the Iran-Contra controversy. Attendees included Patrick Buchanan, Jack Kemp, and William Bennett, who condemned liberal and media attacks as a bid to unseat Reagan.
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Washington
Reagan
White House
Patrick J. Buchanan
Jack Kemp
Ronald Reagan
Iran
Kemp
Federal judge bans interstate sales of unpasteurized milk
A federal judge rules raw milk unsafe for human consumption and restricts interstate sales while leaving state regulation to individual jurisdictions. The order, filed Dec 31, targets Alta-Dena in Los Angeles as a major dairy still marketing raw milk, following Public Citizen's legal challenge.
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Washington
U.S
Norma H. Johnson
Alta-Dena
Los Angeles
Ford Asked For Compensation for Courier Truck Problems
The Center for Auto Safety urged Ford Motor Co to offer extended warranties and compensation to Courier truck owners imported from Mazda amid blown head gasket complaints. About 46 percent of Couriers sold in the U.S. from 1978 to 1982 had Mazda built engines, per Ford's John King.
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Washington
Ford Motor Co
Mazda Motor Corp
United States
Mazda
John King
Ford
Center For Auto Safety
Donald Peterson
Gunman surrenders after holding child at DFW airport
Salah Abdou-Kassem gave himself up at Delta Gate 10 after holding 10 year old Mike Caruso Jr. hostage for eight hours at Dallas Fort Worth International. The incident disrupted Delta Air Lines service with 52 flights canceled and 32 delayed or diverted. The child was unharmed and no charges were filed.
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Grapevine
Texas
Egypt
Dallas-Fort Worth International
Joe Dealey Jr
Mike Caruso Jr
Sunrise
Fla
Delta Air Lines
Dealey
Mike
Cindy Caruso
Gary Pinkston
Delta
Dea
Carusos
Denley
Conley
Dallas Fort Worth
Crews Rebuild as Amtrak Crash Site Returns to Service
Crews worked to rebuild 1000 feet of destroyed track near Chase Maryland after Amtrak’s Colonial train plowed into three Conrail locomotives that had run a stop signal. Fifteen people died including the Amtrak engineer and more than 170 were injured in the wreck seven miles northeast of Baltimore. Non Metroliner service from Washington to Philadelphia would resume with alternating north and southbound trains using the same track, though delays were expected. National Transportation Safety Board members noted switches had already been set to route the Amtrak train north.
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Amtrak
Conrail
Washington
Boston
Springfield
Mass
Baltimore
John Jacobsen
Sue Martin
Washington, D.C
Philadelphia
Joseph T. Nall
National Transportation Safety Board
Gunpowder River
Officials Begin Talks On Ending Insurgencies
A senior official doubts President Corazon Aquino will suspend parts of her draft constitution to appease Islamic rebels, while three negotiators from the National Democratic Front arrive for talks. Farmers marching for land reform cheer the delegation as the NDF, allied with the New People’s Army, seeks substantive negotiations after 18 years of guerrilla war.
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Corazon Aquino
Luzon
National Democratic Front
Communist New People’s Army
Seven Die In Suspected Fire At Chicago Apartment House
A suspicious blaze engulfed a South Side four story brick apartment house killing at least seven people and injuring five others. Firefighters fought the flames through the night and rescued several residents as witnesses reported people leaping from windows.
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Chicago
Jerry Lawrence
Fire Department
Lawrence
Doris Jones
Pentagon Probes Unprovoked Missile Attack on Navy Helicopter
The Pentagon says it will investigate an unprovoked missile attack on a Navy helicopter on a routine surveillance mission in the Persian Gulf. The chopper evaded a single surface to air missile fired by a merchant ship near the UAE coast, passing about 500 yards away before returning to the destroyer O Bannon. Officials say the merchant vessel is under scrutiny for positive identification.
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Pentagon
Persian Gulf
United Arab Emirates
O’bannon
Defense Department
Ash Sharigah
Aiken Standard Contact and Subscription Rates
Aiken Standard lists offices at 124 Rutland Drive and hours 8 30 a m to 5 30 p m Monday through Friday. Mailing address is Box 456 Aiken South Carolina 29802. Subscription rates are 1 14 4 90 14 70 29 40 98 80 21 00 42 00 84 00.
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Aiken, S.C
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Salley Police
Volun
Wagener Fire
Wagener Police
Aiken Communications Inc
P.O. Box
Aiken
S.C
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Harvard Medical School
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