Second-highest monthly shortfall in history budget deficit tops 82 mark
Washington AP reports halfway through fiscal 1983 the federal budget deficit exceeds the prior full-year record at $111 billion as March alone shows a $26.04 billion shortfall. Six months total $129.2 billion with full-year projections rising beyond $210.2 billion. Fiscal strains cited include recession and big tax cuts.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Reagan
Congress
Department of Health and Human Services
Defense Department
Eight cave explorers reach trapped divers in Kentucky flood
Rescuers reached eight spelunkers trapped two days by rising water in a southeast Kentucky cave. The group reported they were in good shape and would stay put until water levels lowered. A note found earlier indicated they waited 1,800 feet inside.
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Mount Vernon
Kentucky
Jim Burch
Warren County
Burch
Tom Staubitz
Greater Cincinnati Grotto
Staubitz
George Venn
Veni
Stanley Hale
Pioneer 10 crosses Pluto orbit on 3.5 billion miles from Earth
Pioneer 10, launched March 2, 1972, passes Pluto’s orbit at 3.5 billion miles from Earth and continues into interstellar space. NASA officials call it a proud American achievement as the craft, built for 20 million dollars, outlives its 21 month life by nearly a decade and is expected to travel for billions more years.
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Mountain View
Calif
Pluto
Earth
Milky Way Galaxy
America
Joseph Warpler
Lick Observatory
University of California At Santa Cruz
Warpler
Neptune
Pioneer 10
Angelo Guastaferro
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ames Research Center
Satellite rescue under way after NOAA-E recovery
NASA engineers recovered the NOAA-E environmental satellite, part of a U.S. space rescue system, after thruster failures left it spinning. A second mission aims to reposition the $100 million Tracking Data and Relay Satellite carried by Challenger, with planned thruster tests in early May to move it to a proper orbit.
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Washington
NASA
Jim Elliott
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
U.S
Earth
Lize
Challenger
Elliott
Reagan says Libyan arms find marks broader Soviet Cuba push
President Reagan's spokesman calls the Libyan arms shipment bound for Nicaragua the tip of the iceberg in a wider Soviet and Cuban campaign in Central and Latin America. He warns that without regional help, neighbors and the United States face grave consequences. A federal appeals court ruled raids on factories unconstitutional for detaining all workers.
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Washington
Reagan
Nicaragua
Central
Latin America
White House
Larry Speakes
United States
California
Arizona
Rabbis urge nationwide call for nuclear freeze
American Reform rabbis joined Catholic bishops in pushing a mutual verifiable nuclear arms freeze. Albert Vorspan of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations urged making halting the arms race a Jewish and American priority to avert a nuclear holocaust.
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Washington
Albert Vorspan
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
United States
Canada
Foat Waives Extradition in 1965 Murder Case
Feminist leader Ginny Foat, 41, waived extradition to Louisiana on Monday to face trial for a 1965 murder she denies committing. She has been on leave from the California National Organization for Women since her Jan. 11 arrest on charges tied to the Argentine businessman's death.
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Los Angeles
Ginny Foat
Louisiana
Foat
California National Organization For Women
Supreme Court to Rule on Factory Immigration Raids
The Supreme Court will decide if immigration agents may raid factories for illegals with others blocking exits. The challenge centers on a ruling that banned such tactics in nine western states.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Sinowatz Nominated to Replace Kreisky as Austria’s Chancellor
The Socialist Party named Deputy Chancellor Fred Sinowatz to succeed Bruno Kreisky after Kreisky’s resignation following Sunday elections. Karl Blecha noted coalition talks are being considered as party leaders respond to the lack of an absolute majority. In Poland, Cardinal Glemp warned Solidarity May Day plans could be dangerous, while Lech Walesa returned to the Gdansk shipyard after a medical exam with possible duties resumption.
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Vienna
Austria
Socialist Party
Fred Sinowatz
Bruno Kreisky
Karl Blecha
Sinowatz
Warsaw
Poland
Jozef Glemp
Solidarity
Glemp
Lech Walesa
Gdansk
Walesa
Socialists Take Early Lead in Portuguese Elections
Socialist candidates gained an early lead in Portugal's national elections seen as a return to power for the party but without a parliamentary majority. The vote took place on the ninth anniversary of a military coup that ended decades of right-wing rule.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Evans records final videotaped message before execution
Evans left a last videotape recorded at Holman Prison in Montgomery. The message urges viewers not to follow him and attributes his change to religious guidance from a Mennonite group, the New Life Foundation, before his death in the electric chair.
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Montgomery
Ala
John Louis Evans
Evans
Alabama
New Life Foundation
Holman
Ron Tate
Expert changes mind about Hitler diaries authenticity
British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper retracted earlier certainty that the Hitler diaries are genuine. He cited a misunderstanding with Stern editors and said no clear link exists yet between the 60 volumes and Hitler's papers that disappeared in World War II.
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Washington Post
Hamburg
West Germany
Adolf Hitler
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Stern
Trevor-Roper
Hitler
London Sunday Times
Berlin
Berchtesgaden
Boehnersdorf
East Germany
Peter Koch
Gert Heidemann
West Bank illness outbreak blamed on anxiety
Two U.S. doctors visited Arrabah in the West Bank and concluded 943 residents fell ill due to anxiety and possibly odor from an outdoor latrine. They said the outbreak spread was driven by psychological factors and media reports, with no other plausible cause. The State Department released the report.
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Washington
West Bank
U.S
Philip Landrigan
Bess Miller
Arrabah
State Department
U.S. Public Health Service
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
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