Social Security Tax Rates to Rise in 1982
The Social Security Administration announced that the payroll tax rate will rise from 6.65 to 6.7 percent on income up to $32,400 starting January 1 1982. Average workers will pay about $100 more, max earners about $200 more, with self employed facing a rate increase to 9.35 percent and a maximum tax of $3,029.40. Beneficiary earnings limits also rise for younger recipients and 65 to 71 year olds, while 72 plus retain full benefits.
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Washington
Social Security Administration
Congress
Five dead in Kentucky auto parts store shooting
A gunman killed five people and wounded three at Mountain Auto Parts in Allen Kentucky, prompting witnesses including Charles May to retell the brutal scene. May recalled a man with a long automatic rifle who demanded the phone be answered and declared the store closed.
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Prestonsburg
Kentucky
Charles May
Mountain Auto Parts
Allen
West Virginia
Rufus Hamilton
Printer
Roger Hatfield
Mohawk
W.va
Roger Click
Garry Hamilton
Grethel
Michael Halbert
Martin
May
Mubarak Begins Purge Against Fundamentalists
Egypt leader Hosni Mubarak moved to purge Islamic fundamentalists from the army and civil service after Anwar Sadat's assassination. Reports cite security clampdown, confiscation of foreign newspapers, and mass arrests rumored but not officially confirmed. Officers with fundamentalist views were reassigned to civilian posts as Mubarak pledged firm legal action.
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Cairo
Egypt
Hosni Mubarak
Anwar Sadat
Sadat
Mubarak
Moshe Dayan Dies at 66 in Tel Aviv Hospital
Tel Aviv Israel AP Moshe Dayan Israel's famed soldier statesman died of a heart attack in Tel Hashomer Hospital after chest pains. He was 66 and had played a pivotal role in Egyptian Israeli peace efforts with Anwar Sadat dying ten days after Sadat’s assassination. Dayan served as defense and foreign minister and helped negotiate the 1979 U S backed peace pact. He survived wartime injuries including the blind eye from a World War II bullet and career highs in 1956 and 1967. His death prompted a state funeral order by Prime Minister Begin amid Sabbath observances and quiet public mourning.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Moshe Dayan
Anwar Sadat
Sadat
Cairo
Dayan
Tel Hashomer Hospital
Nurit Hermon
Dyan
Menachem Begin
Sabra
Sinai Desert
Suez Canal
Golda Meir
Begin
Likud
Washington
94 Feared Dead In Japanese Coal Mine
In a Sapporo area coal mine near the town, methane gas flooded a deep shaft. Officials said 42 bodies found and 52 missing or presumed dead, with 77 rescued and nine hospitalized. Rescue efforts halted as more gas was detected. relatives demanded earlier news.
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Tokyo
Coal Company
Chiaki Hayasaki
Hokkaido Colliery and Steamship Company
Sapporo
Shozo Akaishi
Akaishi
Sapporo Coal Mine Safety Supervising Bureau
Japan Broadcasting Corp
Japan
Miners Ruled Ineligible for Unemployment Benefits in WV Strike
An administrative law tribunal in Charleston ruled that West Virginia coal miners cannot collect unemployment benefits for the 10 week United Mine Workers strike last spring. The panel rejected claims that bargaining in bad faith made claimants eligible and noted the ongoing employer employee relationship despite the labor dispute. The decision affects about 15,000 claims statewide and can be appealed up to the state Supreme Court if pursued by the union.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
United Mine Workers
UMW
Employment Security Board of Review
Kanawha County Circuit Court
State Supreme Court
Jewel F. McClanahan
Board of Review
Itmann Coal Co
Department of Employment Security
West Virginia editor faces backlash over critical WV piece
Kansas editor David Hacker of the Manhattan Mercury says he has received hundreds of hostile calls and letters after an October editorial calling West Virginia a doldrum of despair. He describes a virulent local xenophobia and notes a growing pushback from West Virginians demanding a retraction.
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W.va
Kansas
West Virginia
David Hacker
Hacker
Manhattan
Kan
Mercury
West
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Keith L. Newman
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