Funerals Begin For 113 Hyatt Walkway Collapse Victims
In Kansas City engineers search through debris after two Hyatt Regency walkways collapse killing 113 and injuring 186. First funerals for four Mariachi Estrella Band members occur in Topeka. Investigations by Failure Analysis Associates and four other groups are announced as the hotel eyeing a two week reopening.
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Kansas City, Mo
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Topeka
Kan
Hyatt
Fuller Brush Co
Rachel Galvan
Theresa Cuevas
Miss Galvan
St. Mary’s Hospital
Kansas City
Cuevas
Connie Alcala
Dolores Carmona
Linda Louis Schurlock
Dolores Galvan
Rachel
Hall
Hallmark
Crown Center Redevelopment Co
Hyatt Corp
Crown Center
James Stratta
Menlo Park
Calif
Kemper Arena
Stratta
James McClune
Kansas City Hyatt Regency
House and Senate push swift income tax cuts in tax plan clash
House Ways and Means Chair Dan Rostenkowski pushes a two year 15 percent cut aimed at middle income filers and a possible third year trigger tied to the administration forecast. Senate leaders back a 25 percent cut over 33 months with automatic yearly reductions. Reagan allies seek to block costly amendments.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
White House
Reagan
Dan Rostenkowski
D-Ill
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Bob Dole
Dole
Rostenkowski
Thomas P
O’neill
Jim Wright
Minnesota workers strike grounds capitol state buildings
Minnesota state employees launched a border-to-border strike after failed last-minute talks. Gov. Al Quie promised essential services would continue with managers and supervisors directing operations. A private guard crew was hired to patrol capitol grounds.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesota
al Quie
Capitol
Atlanta Suspect Says Innocent in Slayings Case
Arizona private investigator Will Northrop who interviewed Wayne Williams in Fulton County jail says Williams, charged with two of 28 slayings of young blacks, is innocent and was “just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Williams, 23, faces two murder counts in the deaths of Jimmy Ray Payne and Nathaniel Cater, the 26th and 28th victims linked to the task force probe.
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Atlanta
Arizona
Wayne Williams
Fulton County
Will Northrop
Phoenix
Williams
Jimmy Ray Payne
Nathaniel Cater
Empty Pool Fatal To Diver
A 39-year-old Brooklyn man James Hopkins died after diving into two inches of water in a closed city pool emptied for cleaning at Baisley Park Jamaica Queens. Police said Hopkins scaled the fence and was unaware the pool was drained.
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New York
Brooklyn
James Hopkins
East New York
Baisley Park
Jamaica
Queens
Hopkins
Four Marine Reservists Die in Guam Helicopter Crash
Four Marine reservists from Pennsylvania were killed when a CH53 Sea Stallion helicopter crashed and burned on the Guam during a late Sunday flight deck incident about 35 miles southeast of Morehead City North Carolina.
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Norfolk, Va
Pennsylvania
Guam
Navy
Morehead City
N.C
Five-state fruit quarantine blocks California produce
California faces a multistate fruit quarantine as Texas Florida South Carolina Mississippi and Alabama ban California fruit and vegetables. Californias growers plan a Dallas federal suit while officials plan Supreme Court action to overturn the blockade amid a busy harvest season.
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Los Gatos
Calif
California
U.S. District Court
Dallas
Texas
Florida
South Carolina
Mississippi
Alabama
U.S. Supreme Court
San Francisco Bay-area
Steve George
George Brothers
Reagan Slipping In Job Rating Poll
AP NBC poll finds six months into Reagan's term public opinion on the economy has fallen with 45 percent rating it good or excellent and 34 percent only fair. Tax cut support remains strong though dipping, while concern grows over vague foreign policy plans and inflation progress.
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New York
Ronald Reagan
Associated Press
NBC News
Reagan
Ap-Nbc
The
Congress
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