Senate Toughens Cuba Measure Amid War Powers Debate
The Senate approved a Cuba containment rider 68 to 28 after heated debate on War Powers. Conservatives backed use of force while senators trimmed language to avoid clear troop authority. Percy failed to block the measure 52 to 47, then saw softening pass 97 to 2. House conferees will decide if the anti Cuba language remains.
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Washington Post
Washington
Senate
Steve Symms
R-Idaho
Foreign Relations Committee
Charles Percy
R-Ill
Percy
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
John East
R-N.c
Howard Baker
R-Tenn
Gulf of Tonkin
Cuba
Dent Johnson
U.S
Symms
Jesse Helms
America
George Shultz
Shultz
Porpoise kill plan halted by Commerce Department
The U S Commerce Department canceled a plan to kill up to 960 porpoises in the Bering Sea as part of a scientific study after Senator Bob Packwood objected. Secretary Baldrige cited research aims and a small share of the total porpoise population while critics decried inhumanity.
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Commerce Department
Bob Packwood
R-Cre
Commerce
Malcolm Baldrige
Bering Sea
Alaska
Packwood
Senate Commerce Committee
Department
Baldridge
Etta Fielek
Bicycle sale linked to four deaths in Detroit apartment
Police investigate rumors that an $80 bicycle sale sparked a mass killing in an east side Detroit two family house. Four people died including a 12 year old and a married couple. a fifth person survived. Authorities say the victims were all related and investigators search for a motive.
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Detroit
East Side
Wayne Roberts
Charles Hampton
Hampton
Pamela
Florence Heath
Gilbert Hill
Roberts
Charlie Grace Jr
Herman Robinson
Lawrence Heath
Robinson
Heath
Grace
Hamptons
Suspect Held in Five Texas Slayings
Larry Keith Robison, identified as the roommate of one victim, is held on a probable cause murder warrant. He waived extradition from Kansas after being found asleep in a car with a gun, linked to the murders of two men, two women, and a boy at cottages near Fort Worth.
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UPI
Larry Keith Robison
Fort Worth
Texas
Kansas
Wichita
Kan
Jack Bicknell
Bicknell
Georgia Reed
Scott
Earline H. Baker
Bruce M. Gardner
Terri Richter
Robison
Kansas Turnpike
Gary Stokes
Rick Easter
Hill
Gardner
FAA under fire for slow weather safety actions
Safety experts pilots and lawmakers accuse the FAA of dragging its feet on weather safety measures. NTSB chair Burnett cites wind shear and icy takeoffs as areas needing urgent action. Congress questions the agency’s weather program and budget priorities while FAA officials defend ongoing improvements and a planned $700 million investment.
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Federal Aviation Administration
Congress
James Burnett
National Transportation Safety Board
FAA
Burnett
Dan Glickman
D-Kan
House
Science and Technology Aviation
Boston
New Orleans
Air Florida
Science and Technology
Air Line Pilots Association
Jack Howell
Pilot Union
Albert Gore Jr
D-Tenn
House Science and Technology Investigations
Michael Fenello
National Weather Service
Gore
Fenelle
Parole Denied for Tate-LaBianca Suspect Patricia Krenwinkel
Patricia Krenwinkel, 34, denied parole for a fifth time by a three member panel after a 90 minute hearing. She is serving a life sentence for involvement in the 1969 Tate LaBianca killings led by Charles Manson.
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Chino
Calif
UPI
Patricia Krenwinkle
Charles Manson
Miss Krenwinkle
British forces Intercept Argentine Fishing Boats Near Falklands
World Boats in Buenos Aires reports three Argentine fishing boats came within 150 miles of the Falkland Islands over the past week. British fighter-bombers and warships intercepted them. one ignored orders, another was escorted into Argentine waters, and the third was allowed to continue.
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Argentina
Falkland Islands
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