High Court Reconsiders Draft Registration Linked Financial Aid
The Supreme Court will review a Minnesota ruling that disqualifying students from federal loans for not proving draft registration is unconstitutional. The case stems from Reagan administration efforts to enforce registration, with judges and the court weighing the legality of tying aid to Selective Service status. Additional actions Tuesday involve Abscam convictions, tobacco ads cases, and other high court decisions.
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Labor Department
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Williams
Coretta King receives Key of Life at NAACP Image Awards
In Los Angeles the 16th NAACP Image Awards honored Coretta Scott King with the Key of Life Award at the Hollywood Palladium. Rosa Parks presented the honor. ceremony hosted by Jayne Kennedy George Peppard and Mike Warren. Aaron Spelling also received an award.
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Coretta Scott King
Hollywood Palladium
Jayne Kennedy
George Peppard
Mike Warren
King
Rosa Parks
Birmingham
Ala
Mrs. King
Aaron Spelling
Entertainment Decade awards and mayoral wife interview
Michael Jackson named Entertainer of the Decade and Quincy Jones Producer of the Decade while Ray Charles receives Hall of Fame honors. Lt. Col. Guion Bluford is honored as America’s first Black astronaut to go into space. In Los Angeles, Mayor Tom Bradley’s wife Ethel Bradley describes feeling like a prisoner in Getty House amid political life. In Woolton, England a charity teddy bear exhibition raises about 1500 pounds with Thatcher’s and Anne’s bears among displays.
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Quincy Jones
Ray Charles
Guion Bluford
America
Space
Los Angeles
Tom Bradley
Tom
Ethel Bradley
Los Angeles Times
Bradley
Getty House
Woolton
England
Margaret Thatcher
Princess Anne
National Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Liverpool
Duke of Westminster
Marquis of Bath
Countess Mountbatten
Social Democratic Party
David Owen
Georgia Supreme Court upholds Williams murder verdicts
The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously upholds Wayne Williams’s 1982 murder convictions and consecutive life sentences for two killings. The court reject s defense challenges to use of evidence from related slayings and fiber analysis, and dismisses 32 other alleged errors. Williams maintains innocence while isolated in Fulton County Jail.
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Georgia Supreme Court
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Williams
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Reagan Kohl talk with Spacelab crew marks first joint orbit link
President Reagan and West German Chancellor Kohl spoke with the six Spacelab astronauts aboard the shuttle. They praised the multinational effort as a milestone in international cooperation and hailed the mission's progress with 30 of 73 experiments completed and many more near completion.
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Byron Lichtenberg
Owen Garriott
Bob Parker
Brewster Shaw
Columbia
Rick Chappell
Secret libel suit against Penthouse dismissed
U.S. District Judge dismisses James Fitzgerald libel suit over a Penthouse article "The Pentagon's Deadly Pets" after government invokes state secrets privilege. The case cited alleged Navy and CIA animal training and dolphin torpedo concepts at a Key West outpost. Fitzgerald claimed the statements were false and defamatory.
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Penthouse Magazine
U.S
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Penthouse
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Penthouse International Ltd
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CIA
Fitzgerald
Navy
Key West
Fla
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