House poised to override veto on health bill for elderly
Rep Fortney H Stark says the House will pass the catastrophic health bill by more than two thirds, ensuring a veto override. He expects a prescription drug benefit to survive in some form, despite Reagan opposition, with floor action set for July 22. Separately Rep Stephen Solarz urges cutting foreign aid to Pakistan after a Pakistani native faces arrest in a weapons case involving steel and beryllium.
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Washington
House
Fortney H. Stark
D-Calif
Stephen Solarz
D-N.y
Foreign Affairs’ Asia
Solarz
U.S
Ford Aerostar doors may detach amid NHTSA probe
NHTSA opens a preliminary review into reports that 1986 87 Ford Aerostar doors can fall off and that engines in Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable may stall. The probe covers 284 000 Aerostars and 655 000 Taurus Sabre cars as Ford disputes a safety defect.
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Washington
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NHTSA
Bill Peacock
Ford Motor Co
Helen Petrauskas
Ford
Channell Public Relations Files For Bankruptcy
The firm led by Carl R. Spitz Channell reports 143493 in debts and 18000 in assets in a U S Bankruptcy Court petition. The filing follows Channell plea in the Iran Contra case for using a tax exempt foundation for nonexempt purposes and raising funds to supply weapons to the Nicaraguan Contras.
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Washington
Carl R. “Spitz
Channell
Channell Corp
U.S
Federal may ease fire ant product quarantines in South
U S agriculture officials consider easing restrictions on plant and soil products from fire ant infested states. The July 30 31 Las Vegas meeting will involve Southern infested states and western uninfested states amid debate over how to restart nursery business and protect crops. Fire ants arrived in 1918 on a Mobile Alabama banana boat and now cover portions of eight states.
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Lucedale
Miss
Richard Backus
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Las Vegas
Nev
Backus
Mississippi
Jim Buck Ross
Mobile
Ala
Alabama
Louisiana
Texas
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
North Carolina
Senate Committee Begins Tax Hearings
Senate Finance Committee opens three days of hearings on raising 19.3 billion in 1988 taxes to shrink the deficit. Democrats push taxes despite Reagan veto threats while Gramm Rudman automatic cuts loom as the Senate seeks a compromise with the White House.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Finance Committee
Lloyd Bentsen
Texas
Congress
Reagan
Gramm-Rudman
Supreme Court
Bentsen
Public jury selection in Deaver perjury trial split
Most prospective jurors are questioned behind closed doors as a federal appeals court weighs media requests for a fully public proceeding. Judge Jackson offered open or private questioning, with few choosing public, while media outlets seek a court ruling.
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Washington
Michael K. Deaver
U.S
Thomas Penfield Jackson
Jackson
Bastille Day Mudslide Leaves 50 Dead Missing
In Annecy France a dam failed and a mud and water wave surged into a Bastille Day campsite. Police said 50 people were dead or missing with 19 bodies found and 31 feared dead as hundreds of rescuers searched Grand Bourg. Eleven injured and many treated for shock reported.
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Annecy
France
Grand Bour
Jean Jouandet
Arve
PTL seeks financial examiner amid Bakker turmoil
In Columbia AP report PTL lawyers press for a neutral examiner to monitor the ministry finances as a U S Bankruptcy Court considers the Bakker challenge to PTL leadership. PTL attorney James L Paul calls the move an ill disguised bid to replace current management while Bakkers lawyers push for an impartial monitor.
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Columbia
Jim
Tammy Bakker
PTL
U.S
Bakkers
Bakker
James L. Paul
W. Ryan Hovis
Committee weighs changes in U S welfare program
Washington AP The House Education and Labor Committee considers a Fair Work Opportunities Act replacing NET Work. It adds 150 million for child care and 500 million for the WIN program next year. It would allow up to one year of subsidized work, ban unpaid work for welfare, and permit three month work experience to gain marketable skills.
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Washington
House
Education and Labor Committee
Augustus Hawkins
D-Calif
NET
Ways and Means Committee
Aiken Standard Classified Contact Numbers
Subscriptions and ads contact details for Aiken Standard listed with phone numbers 649-5316 649-1555 648-2311. Customer service hours shown 5:30 p.m. 7 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Advance payments to Aiken Standard PBM Subscription.
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Aiken Standard
PBM
Emergency contacts listed by the Aiken Standard
Aiken Standard provides emergency numbers including Poison Control and local agencies. The notice lists 1-800-922-9709 and mentions the paper’s publication details and mailing address in Aiken South Carolina.
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S.C. Highway Patrol
Salley
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