Consumers Face Higher Prices From Shoplifting Losses
A national push to deter shoplifting argues losses reach 24 billion in 1980, with costs tied to security and enforcement passed to consumers. The National Coalition to Prevent Shoplifting cites teenagers as higher risk and notes federal funding lapse amid retailer reluctance to fund continued education efforts.
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National Coalition To
Atlanta
Coalition
U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Judi Rogers
Women’s Clubs
Chambers of Commerce
Ptas
Democrats Brace for GOP Budget Cut Battles in Congress
Democratic leaders in the House resist shaping the budget cuts and tax increases while Republicans face pressure to own the measures. The Senate debates a budget balancing amendment and a $12.2 billion cuts package as Democrats push for targeted roll calls on specific reductions, including a $550 million three year cut to veterans programs.
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Washington
House
Reagan
Congress
Senate
Leon E. Panetta
Calif
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
D-Mass
GOP
House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Panetta
Budget Committee
Refugee's wife makes premature visit amid illness
Haitian refugee Serrant, living in Illinois since 1978, sees his wife Marie-Louina for the first time in four years as he battles leukemia. Hospital workers and a senator's mother helped secure State Department permission for the Sunday reunion at Skokie Valley Community Hospital.
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Chicago
Haiti
Trudy Caplan
Skokie Valley
U.S
State Department
Serrant
United States
Marie-Louina
Reunion Access
Tennis Player Hu Na Disappearance Sparks U S Meeting Request
Lawyers claiming to represent Hu Na say she is safe and seek a State Department meeting. Chinese officials request help locating the 19 year old missing Federation Cup player and urge no penalties if she returns to the team. ITF notes potential resolution at a sought after briefing.
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Santa Clara
Calif
China
United States
State Department
U.S
Hu Na
Szechuan
International Tennis Federation
David Gray
ITF
San Francisco
Bar on Washington author spotlights male gossip
Washington columnist Diana McLellan says men are the biggest gossips in the capital. Her book Bar on Washington chronicles the gossip network and sources, noting about eighty percent come from men. For seven years she has penned a column on the escapades of power players.
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Washington
Diana McLellan
Capital
Kidnapped Son Apple Pie Sort Held by Zimbabwe Hostiles
Kevin Ellis, 24, and Seattle roommate Brett Baldwin, 23, were abducted on a road near Victoria Falls along with two Australians and two British tourists. Four hostages were freed. captors demand release of two Nkomo lieutenants and other prisoners as terms. The father described his son as an apple pie sort who walked into the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Bellevue
Wash
Zimbabwe
Kevin Ellis
Seattle
Brett Baldwin
Joshua Nkomo
Nkomo
Victoria Falls
Bulawayo
Pilot Okays Reviewing Crash Film For Investigators
Culver City California AP The helicopter pilot Darcey Wingo agreed to help review film of the stunt accident that killed actor Vic Morrow and two child actors My-Ca Dihn Le seven Cerritos and Renee Shinn Chen seven Pasadena. Parts of the helicopter were sent to Washington DC for tests to determine if explosions in a Vietnam battle sequence were too powerful.
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Culver City
Calif
Vic Morrow
Morrow
Darcey Wingo
Wingo
Santa Clara River
My-Ca Dihn le
Cerritos
Renee Shinn Chen
Pasadena
Washington, D.C
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Patricia Brown
Ulife Credit
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Jack B. Hamrick
Park Ave
S.E
Richland Ave
Aiken Drug
Rhoda Burns
America
Clark
Pest Control C
South Carolina
Michael L. Curley
Aiken
No. Augusta
Combe. Inc
City of
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N.W
Steve Thompson
Steven T. Thompson
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