Reagan weighs broader energy surcharge to cut deficits
The Reagan administration considers a wide energy tax beyond the standby plan to curb the $200 billion annual deficits. John Chapoton says elements are still open and a broader energy levy could appear in the 1985 budget plan, with Senate Finance Chair Robert Dole proposing a 2 percent energy tax.
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Washington
Reagan
Congress
John Chapoton
Treasury
Chappton
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Senate Finance Committee
Chapoton
Dole
Evacuation at Baltimore hotel ends after bomb threat
About 180 guests were evacuated from a downtown Baltimore hotel when a man claiming terminal illness barricaded himself in a ninth floor room and threatened to detonate explosives. No weapons were found and no one was hurt after a four hour standoff ended with the man overdosing.
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Baltimore
Harwood Burritt
Rise of Islamic fundamentalism unsettles Muslim world
Five years after the Shah's fall, scholars and officials cite a revival of religious fundamentalism from Africa to Asia. Iran supports militant and ideological movements, with Shiite and Sunni groups seeking stricter Sharia rules and clashes in Kuwait, Sudan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.
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New York Times
Aasini
Iran
Africa
Middle East
Asia
Tehran
Qum
Iran Radio
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Kuwait
Sudan
Gaafar al-Nimeiry
Khartoum
Lebanon
Israel
Sheik Mohammed Shamseddine
Supreme Council
Beirut
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Hosni Mubarak
al-Ashmawy
Cairo
Criminal Court
The
Muslim Brotherhood
Saudi Arabia
Mecca
Medina
Grand Mosque
Persian Gulf
Yugoslavia
Bosnia
Malaysia
India
Pakistan
Reagan urges tougher stance on drunken driving
President Reagan calls for changing attitudes and laws to curb alcohol related highway deaths. He cites 25 000 annual fatalities and 700 000 injuries and backs a 21 year drinking age along with withholding federal funds from non enforcing states. He also unveils National Care and Share Day to collect food for the hungry.
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Washington
Reagan
Transportation
John A. Volpe
Congress
Larry Speakes
White House
Kentucky
Martha Layne Collins
America
Marlin Fitzwater
Lions, Kiwanis
Jaycees Clubs
Fitzwater
Betty Heitman
Republican National Committee
Edwin Meese
Meese
Glass eye found at distant dry cleaners mystery unfolds
Grand Rapids story details a missing artificial eye from a 69 year old man. An employee mailed the eye from Battle Creek to the uncle’s niece in Michigan for testing at University of Michigan Hospitals. The eye matches the description and was found in a cleaning machine basket.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Joan Webster
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Battle Creek
Grand Rapids
Jean Sechrest
Ms. Sechrest
Private firm to operate NASA launching pad
NASA will turn over operation of the Kennedy Space Center Atlas-Centaur launch complex to private industry as part of Reagan era commercialization. General Dynamics Convair could launch rockets from the space center as early as 1987.
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NASA
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Kennedy Space Center
Space Agency
Reagan
U.S
General Dynamics-Convair
The
Space Center
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home Cemetery
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