Reagan Abandons Push to Accelerate Tax Cut
President Reagan after a strategy session with Republican leaders scrapped plans to seek an accelerated 10 percent tax cut slated for July 1. The focus shifts to a higher motor fuel tax and enterprise zone concessions, with concerns raised about funding and transit subsidies. Reagan said the two priorities take precedence and he would not push Congress to speed the cut.
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Leading Economic Indicators Rise Slightly in October
The Commerce Department reported a 0.2 percent rise in the leading economic indicators for October, marking the sixth uptick in seven months. Revised data showed October building permits up 16.9 percent while new orders fell, prompting a corrective note to the earlier 0.6 percent gain.
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National Association of Manufacturers
Street killing at Camillus House shocks Miami as hundreds watch
Ivory Scott a 65 year old drifter known as Pops was beaten to death Monday in a soup line at Camillus House where 300 to 400 people waited for a meal. Earl Smith 41 was arrested for second degree murder after allegedly bludgeoning Scott with a pipe following a knife incident.
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Pops
Camillus House
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Earl Smith
Homicide
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Wasserman
Paul Johnson
House
Leo Simone
Actress Jennifer O Neill pleads innocent in gun case
Actress Jennifer O Neill 34 pleads innocent in Westchester County Court to fourth degree criminal possession of a weapon after a revolver she used to shoot herself was found unlicensed. Her husband John Lederer 34 is indicted on third degree possession and also pleads innocent with potential prison terms.
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Westchester County
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Treatment cures baby with immune deficiency in Boston
Doctors at the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute report a four month old girl born without immunity has received monoclonal antibody therapy and now shows normal immunity. The child, who previously lived in a germ free environment, is described as cured and indistinguishable from peers.
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Boston
Sidney Farber Cancer Institute
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Reagan Admin Cites Executive Privilege On EPA Waste Files
The Reagan administration will not turn over investigative files on three hazardous waste sites citing executive privilege. Attorney General William French Smith said releasing the material would prejudice effective law enforcement. Rep. John Dingell had sought EPA access amid a review of the $1.6 billion Superfund.
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Bomb hits Thatcher residence as letter bombs target government
A letter bomb addressed to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher exploded at 10 Downing Street wounding an aide. Four other letter bombs were defused at the House of Commons. Scotland Yard linked a group called the Animal Rights Militia to the attack and ruled out the Irish National Liberation Organization claim.
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Britain
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Irish Republican Army
Man surrenders in Tylenol killings probe
Los Angeles authorities say Kevin Masterson of Lombard Illinois surrendered to the FBI in West Los Angeles. He is not a Tylenol killer but admits past statements linking him to the Chicago area poisonings. James W Lewis and Leann remain sought under federal extortion warrants.
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Illinois
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James W. Lewis
Leann
Lewis
Chicago
Masterson
Lombard, Ill
West
Tyrone Fahner
Fahner
Walesa at Polish holy shrine seeks justice and solidarity
World CZESTOCHOWA Poland AP Lech Walesa former independent union chief visits the holiest shrine on a pilgrimage thanking the Black Madonna for freedom and praying for love justice and human solidarity He wears the Black Madonna pin and urges that August 1980 hopes be realized despite Solidarity being outlawed.
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Poland
Independent Union
Lech Walesa
Walesa
Union
Solidarity
NATO Reaffirms Plan to Deploy Missiles in Europe
NATO defense ministers from 14 countries pledged to begin deploying 572 Pershing 2 and cruise missiles by year end 1983 in the absence of a concrete arms control agreement. Caspar Weinberger accused the Soviet regime of bullying Western Europe to drop deployment plans amid concerns of accidental nuclear war.
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Europe
Soviet Union
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Caspar Weinberger
Western Europe
Weinberger
Kennedy ready to rule out 1984 presidential bid
Washington reports indicate Senator Edward Kennedy plans to announce he will not seek the 1984 presidency. Staffers were unavailable for comment and aides were meeting late Tuesday to prepare the decision amid family discussions and Capitol Hill chatter. Kennedy had led early Democratic preference polls despite Carter's 1980 renomination loss.
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Transplant of artificial heart set for Thursday
The University of Utah announced the first human recipient for the Jarvik-7 artificial heart, to be implanted Thursday by Dr. William DeVries. The patient, whose name was not released, signed consent forms after approval by the Artificial Heart Patient Evaluation Committee under FDA rules.
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William DeVries
DeVries
Federal Food and Drug Administration
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Dwan
Chase Peterson
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