Rhetoric Ends Balloting Begins In Off Year Election
Washington voters prepare for off year balloting as Reagan urges hope not despair. Democrats accuse White House of plotting post election Social Security cuts while Republicans expect House losses about 20 seats but hope to keep the Senate. Reagan visits Rollins in hospital and presses for patient patience amid economic woes.
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Washington
Reagan
White House
New England
House of Representatives
GOP
House
Senate
Howard H. Baker Jr
Tennessee
Edward J. Rollins
Rollins
Benedict Predicts Victory in West Virginia Senate Battle
Princeton Republican Cleve Benedict predicted his election to the U.S. Senate during a Mercer County swing as part of a daylong campaign tour in the Mountain State. He urged a large GOP turnout and thanked supporters with his wife Anne present at Mercer County Airport before continuing to Beckley for another appearance.
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Princeton
U.S. Senate
Cleve Benedict
U.S
West Virginia
Mercer County
District II
Benedict
Robert C. Byrd
Anne
Beckley
West
Marine Injured In Beirut Explosion
A car bomb near the U S Marine encampment in Beirut injures one Marine and wounds two Lebanese civilians. Lance Cpl Sol Flewellen of Glen Mills Pa is named. A second, separate mine nearby killed a Lebanese motorist. French troopers and an Israeli soldier are lightly wounded in other incidents. Marines, French paratroopers and Italian soldiers form the peacekeeping force. The blast used TNT and hexogene under the rear seat of a gold Volkswagen Rabbit at 11 20 a m local time.
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Beirut
Lebanon
U.S
Stuart Wagner
Ouza
Wagner
Lance Cpl
Sol Flewellen
Glen Mills
Washington
White House
Larry Speakes
Wafik el-Husami
Nabatiyeh
Yusuf Bitar
Jack MacDonald
Palestine Liberation Organization
Adversaries discuss Hitlerism on Concord stage
WW II survivors Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck spoke at Concord College about their Nazi era experiences. Waterford warned against Holocaust denial while Heck, once a Hitler Youth member, described indoctrination and his laterDecision to speak out amid threats.
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Daily Telegraph
Athens
Concord College
Helen Waterford
Alfons Heck
Alexander Fine Arts Center
Waterford
Heck
Concord
Germany
Hitler
San Diego Union
Rhineland
Hitler Youth
Left
Local Officials Expect Moderate Voter Turnout in Mercer County
Mercer County polls open 6 30 a m to 7 30 p m for the November general election with mild dry weather. Voters will choose a U S senator Fourth District congressman one state senator from the 10th District four delegates from the 20th District and an unexpired circuit court judge term plus a county commissioner from District II. Thirty four precincts use CES voting devices and results are tabulated by computer at the courthouse. County Clerk Wilson Harvey leads ballot receipt and tallying.
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Princeton
Mercer
U.S
Mercer County
Wilson Harvey
Union Carbide Takes Blame For Rusty Rain Fallout
Union Carbide says it accepts blame for a mysterious rusty rain that damaged paint on hundreds of cars in the Kanawha Valley. Spokesman Frank Stowers cited circumstantial evidence tying the South Charleston plant to the fallout, caused by meta phenylene diamine amid low winds and high humidity. He noted the chemical is non-toxic and removable with common cleaners and that precautions will be taken to prevent future exposure.
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Charleston
W.va
Union Carbide
Kanawha Valley
Frank Stowers
State Air Pollution Control Commission
South Charleston
North Charleston
C.E. White
Stowers
Air Pollution Control Commission
Tuesday Warm With Evening Showers In Western Areas
Tuesday will be partly cloudy and warm with a chance of showers in western areas late tonight. Showers and thunderstorms are likely statewide tomorrow with highs in the 70s to low 80s. The extended forecast through Saturday calls for cooler temperatures, chances of showers Thursday, and lows dropping into the 20s by Friday and Saturday.
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National Weather Service
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