Nofziger Reenters Reagan Push for Tax Bill Support
Veteran Reagan operative Lyn Nofziger resumes work as an unpaid White House consultant to coordinate external relations in support of the big tax increase. He had opposed higher taxes but says the administration explained the plan, aiming to win enough votes as Congress debates a measure signaling potential relief with spending cuts and tuition credits.
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Gazette Wire Services
Washington
Reagan
Lyn Nofziger
Nofziger
Jack Kemp
R-N.y
Silvio Conte
R-Mass
White House
Conte
House Senate
House
Kemp
Larry Speakes
Martin Anderson
Coppola Faces Virginia Electric Chair Execution
U S District Judge Warriner refused a stay for Frank Coppola 38 to be executed in Virginia's electric chair Coppola insists on dying rather than remaining on Death Row He was scheduled to die at 11 tonight making him Virginia's first execution in 20 years and the fifth nationwide since 1976.
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Richmond
Frank Coppola
Virginia
U.S
Dortch Warriner
Coppola
J. Gray Lawrence
Lawrence
4Th
Court of Appeals
Mecklenburg Correctional Center
Warriner
Supreme Court
Portsmouth
Muriel Hatchell
Rob Walker
Richmond Times- Dispatch
Franklin goes on trial for Jordan shooting in South Bend
In South Bend Indiana UPI reports Joseph Paul Franklin faces an all white jury for the Vernon Jordan sniper attack. Prosecutors claim two prison inmates will testify Franklin bragged about the shootings while a court considers desegregation busing in East Baton Rouge Parish. In Independence Kansas three teens used a .22 rifle after drinkin vodka, killing Ivan Garman and Charles Holeman while a third boy faces juvenile hearings.
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South Bend
Ind
UPI
Joseph Paul Franklin
Vernon Jordan
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Jordan
National Urban League
Barry Kowalski
Civil Rights Division
Justice Department
Utah
East Baton Rouge
John Wilson
East Baton Rouge Parish
Ivan Garman
Charles David Holeman
Lee Bynum
Kansas
Veronica Hamel Visits ABA Convention for Hill Street Blues
Lawyers at the 104th American Bar Association session in San Francisco welcomed Veronica Hamel as Joyce Davenport of Hill Street Blues. Only a fraction attended the insanity plea talk, but all 230 tickets at 22 dollars sold out for her Sunday appearance.
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American Bar Association
Veronica Hamel
Joyce Davenport
ABA
Raymond Burr
Perry Mason
Ozzy Osbourne Shaves Hair After Baton Rouge Stir
Ozzy Osbourne unveiled a shaved head at City Park in New Orleans during a performance while joking that New Orleans is a place to let hair down. The rocker had previously bitten a bat in Des Moines, drawing shock from audiences.
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New Orleans
Ozzy Osbourne
Des Moines
City Park
Osbourne
British health workers launch five day NHS strike
About 400 000 to 500 000 National Health Service workers walk out for five days over pay. The action disrupts operations and leaves patients with cold meals as unions demand a 12 percent nurse pay raise and higher increases for other staff, while the government holds firm.
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London
Britain
National Health System
National Health Service
Health Department
Health Service
Margaret Thatcher
Albert Spanswick
Confederation of Health Service Employees
England
St. George’s
Tooting
Baby sitter indicted on 2 murder counts in Florida
Christine Falling, 19, was indicted by a Blountstown grand jury on two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of 2 month old Travis Coleman and 2 year old Cassidy Muffin Johnson who were entrusted to her care. The judge granted a gag order to limit publicity in the case.
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Blountstown
Fla
Christine
W.L. Bailey
James Appleman
Bailey
Miss Falling
Travis Coleman
Cassidy “Muffin” Johnson
Coleman
Johnson
Florida
Haig urges foreign troop withdrawal from Lebanon at ABA
Former secretary of state Alexander Haig, in his first public appearance since resigning, called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon. He told the American Bar Association convention that cutting back or strengthening the military does not solve economic problems and endorsed Reagan's goal of Lebanon's sovereignty and total foreign-force withdrawal.
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San Francisco
UPI
Alexander Haig
Lebanon
Haig
American Bar Association
Reagan
Reagan administration seeks federal appeal on busing ruling
The Reagan administration launches a legal appeal to a federal circuit court in a major challenge over forced school desegregation busing. The move signals high stakes in desegregation policy and interstate education governance.
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Washington
Reagan Administration
Hunger striker ends fast after wife’s lie about emigration
Yuri Balovienkov halted his 36 day hunger strike after Elena Kusmenko Balovienkov claimed officials would reconsider his case if he ate. Doctors warned his condition remains dangerous for at least two weeks as emigration prospects loom.
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Moscow
Yuri Balovienkov
Elena Kusmenko Balovienkov
Baltimore
Pilgrims swell to 50,000 on Czestochowa march
About 30,000 to 32,000 pilgrims began a nine day walk from Warsaw to Czestochowa, joined along the route by thousands for the 173 mile trek to Jasna Gora. Archbishop Glemp will deliver a homily at the 600th anniversary ceremonies honoring the Virgin Mary icon. Pope John Paul II hoped to attend but martial law delayed the visit until next year.
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Jasna Gora
Mountain of Light
Jozef Glemp
John Paul II
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