Meese challenged over hunger claims amid hunger controversy
Washington reaction mounts after Edwin Meese questions hunger evidence calling claims anecdotal and political. Officials and activists urge review of outside hunger data as Nashville mayor invites him to see surplus cheese and butter distributions to eligible families.
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Field
State panel cites 32 million in savings for Iowa
A Des Moines report from the Governor's Task Force on Efficiencies and Cost Effectiveness estimates about 32.27 million dollars in savings over 34 years by cutting supervisors, trimming travel, streamlining functions, and tightening bookkeeping. It also urges selling road maps at cost and adopting electronic banking for welfare and food stamp payments, with reactions ranging from workable to potentially costly.
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Iowa to cut costs via inspector general and agency consolidations
Proposals include appointing an inspector general to oversee cost cutting with no savings estimate, consolidating 23 boards and commissions for 1.15 million in savings, reducing supervisors for 8.4 million, ending holiday pay for temporary workers saving 3.8 million, and promoting phased retirement to save 3.5 million. Electronic receipts and welfare payments to earn interest, 2.3 and 1.86 million respectively. streamline purchasing for 750 thousand. cut out-of-state travel by 3.15 million. freeze video equipment purchases at 150 thousand. reduce forms by 975 thousand. bid a new telephone system and buy sets in-state for 3.37 million.
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Reagan warns of up to 1000 kamikaze terrorists in Lebanon
President Reagan told a Citizens for America meeting that as many as 1,000 terrorists, many Iranians, could be assembled in Lebanon for suicide attacks similar to the Beirut 1983 bombing that killed 240 U.S. Marines. White House aides confirmed a substantial terrorist force trained in Lebanon.
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Washington
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Beirut
U.S
Reagan
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White House
Bekaa
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khom
U S seeks 1.9 billion from Shell for pollution
The Justice Department sues Shell Oil Co. for nearly 1.9 billion dollars over alleged damage to natural resources at the Army Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver. The action claims pesticides and chemicals leaked into land air and waters harming wildlife and the environment.
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Washington
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Shell Oil Co
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Rocky Mountain Arsenal
Denver
Shell
Houston
The School of Mime Goes Bankrupt Joke
A terse joke notes the mime school went bankrupt and that a rumor never circulated. The quip hinges on wordplay about money and silence, ending with a light punchline about communication.
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Mime
Flynt Claims De Lorean Tape Is Fake In Court Testimony
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt testified that a tape said to feature a government informant threatening John De Lorean was a fake. He said the tape came from a mystery source known as the samurai and that the delivery was by John Pauly with CBS, while a CBS KNXT statement called the claim absurd.
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