Fliers Call for Statement Against International Terrorism
Navy pilots from Attack Squadron 55 returning to Oceana Naval Air Station after a Libya bombing mission say there was not a man aboard the Coral Sea who wouldn’t have stayed another month to make a statement against international terrorism. The squadron’s 16 A-6 Intruders flew April 15, with other ships’ air units docking at Norfolk and Jacksonville. A crowd welcomed the returning fliers as their carrier group had been delayed and extended in the Mediterranean.
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Carrie
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Duff
Oceana Naval Air Station
Norfolk Naval Station
Norfolk
Jacksonville
Fla
el Toro
Calif
Oceana
Cmdr
Rob Weber
U.S
Psychologists Offer Help To Cokeville's Children
Psychologists who aided San Diego mass shooting victims offer to assist Cokeville Wyoming after a hostage crisis at Cokeville Elementary School. The incident left 79 injured when a homemade gasoline bomb exploded during a seven hour standoff. Authorities probe David and Doris Young and their ransom demand of 300 million dollars.
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Cokeville
Wyo
San Diego
Max Excell
McDonald’s
San Ysidro
Calif
David
Doris Young
Wyoming
Resnik says reporters invade grief after shuttle disaster
Marvin Resnik of Akron describes intrusive calls from reporters while coping with the loss of Ju dith Resnik and six other shuttle crew members. He notes a June 4 NASA briefing planned for families to learn committee findings.
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Hudson
Ohio
Judith Resnik
Marvin Resnik
Associated Press Broadcasters
Akron
Resnik
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Washington
Phyllis Cottle
Cuyahoga Falls
Ms. Cottle
Pittsburgh Skydivers Jump From USS Steel Building
Alan Danko 37 and Donald Sulkowski 31, both of Pittsburgh, parachuted from the 841 foot USS Steel Building to illustrate American freefall to British counterparts. They made a two second free fall before deploying chutes with safety on ground observers. They landed near Civic Arena parking and were briefly detained. a third man, Thomas Zukowski, 45, was arrested for trespass and disorderly conduct after taping the stunt.
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Alan Danko
USS Steel
Danko
Donald Sulkowski
New York
Chicago
Sulkowski
America
Civic Arena
Thomas Zukowski
Gibsonia
David McCulloch
Exhibit Will Honor State Nobel Prize Laureate Townes Center
The South Carolina State Museum plans a 1988 exhibit on laser technology honoring Greenville native Charles H. Townes. Townes, now a UC Berkeley physics professor, helped develop lasers. The Townes Center will anchor the science wing with hands on exhibits as the museum seeks $1 million state funding plus matching funds by June 30, 1987.
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South Carolina State Museum
Greenville
Charles H. Townes
Townes
Guy Lipscomb
Berkeley
University of California
Townes Center
State Museum
Ron Shelton
Shelton
Majority favors Senate television coverage though few will watch
A Media General AP poll of 1,473 adults finds two thirds view Senate TV coverage as important and seven in ten plan to tune in, while 68 percent expect to watch only occasionally. Experimental gavel to gavel airing began in the chamber, with network choices starting June 1 and a July 29 vote on extending coverage.
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U.S. Senate
Media General
Associated Press
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Chamber
General-Ap
Wile Cay
Senate media impact split between chambers says PAO
A public affairs office survey finds eight in ten expect senators to be better prepared for debates, seven in ten believe television will spark citizen interest in the Senate, and more viewers anticipate the Senate than the House. House Speaker Thomas P. ONeill Jr. scorns long, winded debates, saying listeners would be bored by 35 to 40 minutes of talk.
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House of Representatives
House
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
D-Mass
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