Textile jobs in Southeast decline warns industry leader
Southeastern textile employment has peaked and begun a steady drop due to weak markets, modernization, and imports. USC Clemson projections expect only minor gains in 1983 while South Carolina loses thousands of jobs since 1973, with 18 plants closed last year.
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Greenville
James A. Chapman Jr
American Textile Manufacturers Institute
Inman Mills
Chapman
U.S
South Carolina
Insittate University
Donald Ratajczak
Clemson University College of Commerce and Industry
South Carolina Mills
North Carolina
State Employment Security Commission
State Development Board
Ryan C. Amacher
Clemson College of Commerce and Industry
Beirut building collapse after bombing kills workers
In Beirut a deserted four story building damaged by a previous bombing collapsed as French peacekeeping troops prepared to demolish it. The state radio reported five Lebanese workers killed and five French and Lebanese soldiers were dug out alive. Voice of Lebanon cited two French soldiers killed and seven believed trapped. Casualty figures remained unconfirmed at the scene.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Voice of Lebanon
Dow Faces Dioxin Concerns Over Agent Orange Link
Newly released court papers reveal Dow Chemical convened a meeting on March 24, 1965 at its Midland offices to urge competitors to reduce exceptionally toxic dioxin levels in 2,4,5-T used in Agent Orange. The aim was to protect industry image and limit legal exposure amid toxicity worries.
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Uniondale
N.Y
Dow Chemical
Dow
Midland
Mich
C.L. Dunn
Hercules Powder Co
Secretary Shultz engages Syria to break Lebanon withdrawal deadlock
Secretary of State George P. Shultz opened talks with Syrian leaders in Damascus aiming to resolve the impasse over all foreign troop withdrawals from Lebanon. He met with Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam and President Hafez Assad. Assad condemned the Israeli-Lebanese agreement and demanded Syria’s troops stay until Israel pulls out and the accord is scrapped.
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Damascus
Syria
George P. Shultz
Lebanon
Shultz
Abdul-Halim Khaddam
Hafez Assad
Assad
Israel
Reagan imposes steel tariffs and quotas opposition erupts
President Reagan's plan combines tariffs and import quotas on foreign specialty steel drawing fire from steel executives, the United Steelworkers, Congress, and the European Community. Tariffs of 8 to 10 percent apply to stainless steel imports with a 4 percent rate in four years while global tonnage quotas limit bar, rod and alloy tool steel.
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Washington
Reagan
U.S. Trade
Bill Brock
United Steelworkers Union
Congress
European Economic Community
Williamsburg
Brock
U.S. International Trade Commission
Specialty Steel Management
Steel Union
Adolph Leno
Lloyd McBride
South Carolina DUI crackdown nets 375 arrests over July 4 weekend
South Carolina reported 375 plus DUI arrests during the Fourth of July weekend across 46 counties. Florence County led with 31 DUI arrests while Horry County logged 28. Bamberg and Calhoun counties reported none.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Highway Patrol
Phillip Meek
Florence County
Horry
Dillon
Florence
Georgetown
Marion
Marlboro
Williamsburg
Meek
Aiken
Kershaw
Lee
Lexington
Richland
Sumter
Abbeville
Edgefield
Greenwood
Laurens
McCormick
Newberry
Saluda
Anderson
Greenville
Ocone
Pickens
Spartanburg
Cherokee
Chester
Chesterfield
Fairfield
Lancaster
Union
York
Beaufort
Berkeley
Charleston
Colleton
Dorchester
Jasper
Allendale
Bamberg
Barnwell
Calhoun
Clarendon
Hampton
Orangeburg
Liz and Dick Show Returns To Broadway
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton resume the Noel Coward revival Private Lives on Broadway after a holiday weekend in which Burton wed Sally Hay in Las Vegas. Burton, 57, and Taylor, 51, perform as love struck ex spouses while Hay makes her first stage appearance. The couple's Las Vegas ceremony occurred at the Frontier Hotel before their return to New York and the Tuesday show.
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Victor Luna
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
Sally Hay
New York
Burton
Taylor
Liz-and-Dick
Las Vegas
Broadway
Miss Taylor
Miss Hay
British Broadcasting
Cup
Enerinsman
Vienna
Frontier Hotel
Nancy Selzer
Noel Coward
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Jim Hensley
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