Reagan Admin Opens Five Recreation Areas to Mineral Exploration
The Interior Department issued rules permitting mineral exploration in five national recreation areas and lifting restrictions on Grand Canyon motor boating. The changes faced swift environmental criticism, while officials cited a federal court order and Congressional direction as the basis. The plan exempts portions of Lake Mead, Glen Canyon, Whiskeytown, Ross Lake, and Lake Chelan from leasing.
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Washington
Interior Department
Grand Canyon
Interior
James Watt
Lake Meade
Arizona
Nevada
Glen Canyon
Utah
Whiskeytown
California
Ross Lake
Lake Chelan
Ron Tipton
National Park
The
Wilderness Society
Watt
National Park Service
George Berklaey
Berklaey
Colorado River
Sludge Flood Devastates Harlan County Communities
Debris from a coal field sludge pond flowed into Ages Creek in Harlan County Kentucky after a spill on Friday killing a woman and driving hundreds to flee into snow. At least three homes were demolished and 15 damaged. Governor John Y Brown Jr declared a state of emergency after the area was deemed unsafe Monday.
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Ages Creek
Harlan County
John Y. Brown Jr
Libyan plot on Reagan assassination questioned
U S officials doubt the existence of a Libyan assassination squad linked to President Reagan after a list of 14 suspects is criticized. Columnist Jack Anderson showed sketches of five alleged members, while embassies and intelligence agencies express skepticism about the hit team’s reality and motives.
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Washington
USS
Reagan
Jack Anderson
Anderson
Amal
Muammar Khadafy
Khadafy
Abc-Tv
Vicki Warren
Customs Service
Customs and Border Patrol
Ms. Warren
Treasury Department
CIA
FBI
Justice Department
Department
FDA officer indicted over alleged $30,000 bribery scheme
Dr. Kaniam bakam Chakra Pani, a 63 year old FDA medical officer in the Division of Anti Infective Drug Products, is indicted on conspiracy and receiving a gratuity for allegedly depositing 24 checks from Dr. Stanley Jacob totaling more than 30 000 into his accounts between 1975 and 1979. Jacob was a major stockholder in a firm testing DMSO used by the government.
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Baltimore
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Kaniambakam Chakra Pani
Stanley Jacob
Jacob
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Pani
U.S
Revenge at Lindale Mall introduces outdoor apparel store
The REVENGE shop at Lindale Mall debuts a rugged outdoor fashion line for men and women. It stocks parkas, wool shirts, leather jackets, plus sweaters from Austria and Norway with Woolrich outdoorswear also featured. Master Charge and VISA accepted with layaway options.
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Revenge
Woolrich
Austria
Norway
New Zealand
Lindale Mall
Suspected Nazi dies after Chicago rail death
The Justice Department sought to revoke the citizenship of Albert Deutscher for wartime Nazi involvement and false statements. He was killed by a train at Clyde Station in Cicero while employed as a carman. Police have not ruled whether the death was accidental or self-inflicted.
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Chicago
Justice Department
Europe
Albert Deutscher
Brookfield
Ill
MacNeal Memorial Hospital
Berwyn
Joyce Flory
Burlington Northern Railroad
Clyde
Cicero
Deutscher
Jim Hagle
Earl Thal
Department
U.S. District Court
United States
Automakers seek Reagan aid to lift industry slump
Lee Iacocca and other auto executives met with President Reagan in the Cabinet Room to press for economic relief. They praised the recovery program and urged lower interest rates, plus relaxing Clean Air Act auto emission standards to spur industry revival.
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Washington
Reagan
Lee Iacocca
Chrysler
Nine-Alarm Lynn Plastics Fire Destroys Building
A smoky nine alarm blaze at a Lynn plastics plant burned over five hours destroying one building and damaging two others near the shoe district site of a prior fire. An unidentified Lynn Plastics Co. manager is reported missing, said District Fire Chief Charles Garinghelli.
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Lynn
Mass
Lynn Plastics Co
Charles Gagringhelli
Bomb blast hits Zimbabwe party HQ in Salisbury
A blast at the Salisbury headquarters of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's party killed at least six people and wounded up to 150. Mugabe was not in the building at the time. Police report details.
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Salisbury, Zimbabwe
Salisbury
Robert Mugabe
Mugabe
Albanian Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu Dies by Suicide
BBC quoted Tirana Radio reporting that 68 year old Albanian Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu killed himself in a nervous crisis. Shehu had led Albania since 1954 and his death marked a sudden political shock in the Balkans.
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London
British Broadcasting Corp
Tirana
Albania
Mehmet Shehu
BBC
Balkans
Shehu
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Robert T. Stafford
David A. Stockman
Stockman
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Beirut
Lebanon
Immigration and Naturalization Service
San Ysidro
Calif
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Washington Post
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