West Virginia weighs nuclear arms freeze resolution
The West Virginia Senate approved 28 to 5 a resolution urging the federal government to negotiate a bilateral verifiable nuclear weapons moratorium with the Soviet Union. Opponents warned such state actions hinder diplomacy, while supporters framed it as sanity and survival amid the arms race.
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Charleston
W.va
State Senate
Soviet Union
House
U.S
Odell Huffman
D-Mercer
NAACP Calls For Resignation Of Mayor Over Spaying Plan
Charles Town West Virginia AP The local NAACP chapter protests Mayor Donald Master s call for sterilizing female welfare recipients saying it implies black genocide The mayor a long time veterinarian spoke after learning a planned welfare program would fund 99 family clinics Master defended the plan saying it is not racist or sexist and would apply to all welfare recipients He sent the idea to Governor Rockefeller and senators Byrd and Randolph outlining voluntary sterilization as a policy option
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Charles Town
W.va
NAACP
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Donald Master
George Rutherford
Master
Hitler
Rutherford
Regional Planning Commission
West Virginia
Hagerstown
Morning Herald
Jay Rockefeller
U.S
Jennings Randolph
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Dealers See No Upturn in Auto Sales This Year
Nearly half of 230 U S car dealers questioned in Ward s Auto World survey say auto sales will not rebound until 1983 or later. 45 percent expect no upturn in 1983 and 39 percent foresee little improvement in 1985. The survey also notes 89 percent expect quality gains in domestic models and 90 percent back modest price increases for 1983.
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Detroit
U.S
Ward
Auto World
Ward’s
Bond Set for Wife and Mother-in-Law in West Virginia Murder Case
HINTON West Virginia AP The wife Cleo Jane Duncan 35 and her mother in law Dorothy Cleo Grubb 55 posted 50000 bond each on first degree murder charges after James Duncan 35 was found dead and mutilated near Weigens Bridge. A 17 year old stepson also faced murder charges and remained in juvenile detention. The body showed gunshot and postmortem organ removal attempts.
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Layland
Weigens Bridge
Duncan
Cleo Jane Duncan
Dorothy Cleo Grubb
Fayette County
Agnes Williams
Robert Abbott
State
Princeton
Greenbrier River
McCreery
W.va
New River
State Residents Draw $40 Million In Jobless Benefits In January
West Virginia set a state record with 40.3 million dollars in jobless benefits in January, with 34 million from state funds including 28.7 million borrowed from the federal government. The state’s unemployment rate remained among the highest nationwide, with 97,600 residents out of work.
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Charleston
W.va
West
Canfield
West Virginia
Michigan
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