Steps outlined to keep Social Security afloat
A UPI report states the National Commission on Social Security urged short term fixes to avert funding gaps. It recommends delaying any rollback of 1981 tax increases, reallocating disability taxes to retirement, allowing interfund borrowing with interest, and even borrowing from general revenues if needed.
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Washngton
UPI
National Commission Today
Congress
National Commission On Social Security
Commission
Revolver Linked to Four Slayings in Police Gunfight
The .357 revolver used in a Chicago police shooting is tied to three earlier killings. Rogelio Llaguno and an accomplice sparked a gunfight. tests linked the weapon to Ismael Enriquez and two tavern murders. Luis Garcia is indicted on four counts of murder.
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Chicago
UPI
Rogelio Llaguno
Ismael Enriquez
Llaguno
Richard Szymanski
No heat dispute at bar linked to political HQ rent
Sabrina Stiles owner of a Washington topless and bottomless bar claims management withholds heat to pressure her to vacate. The Carter Mondale national re election headquarters are in the same building and a spokesperson says the rent was cheap, but Stiles refuses to move stating she was there first.
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Sabrina Stiles
Washington
Carter-Mondale National
Stiles
CIA fears exposure limits covert operations under law
The study, released by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, asserts a 1974 law blocks CIA covert actions and gives every member of Congress a potential veto. Authors Ernest W. Lefever and Roy Godson, Georgetown University professors, call this trend alarming.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Congress
CIA
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Ernest W. Lefever
Roy Godson
Georgetown University
Carter seeks $6 billion for youth literacy and job program
President Carter proposes a $6 billion plan to teach reading writing and arithmetic to 3 million poor youths ages 14 to 21 to curb chronic unemployment. He would raise 1981 youth employment funding from $4 billion to $5.2 billion and then to $6 billion in 1982, contingent on goal completion.
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Washington
Carter
Congress
Florentine Sextuplets Born in Florence Hospital
Rosanna Cavigli delivered four boys and two girls in Florence in the 35th week. Doctors said all six infants were in good health and weighed 2.2 to 4.4 pounds each, with a good chance of survival. No fertility drug use details released.
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Florence
Italy
Rosanna Cavigli
West Coast storm knocks out power and closes roads
A four day snow storm hammers the Pacific and Rocky Mountain West leaving 13 dead, stranding motorists, and closing major highways. Oregon declares Hood River and Multnomah counties disaster areas as 51,000 lose power and Amtrak runs to rescue stranded travelers.
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Rocky Mountain
Oregon
Amtrak
Cut Bank
Mont
Wyoming
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Snake River Canyon
Vic Atiyeh
Hood River
Multnomah County
Columbia River Gorge
Portland
Colorado
National Weather Service
Gary Franson
California
Portland General Electric Co
Pacific Power & Light
Rockies
Afghan Prison Riot Frees 12 as Police Fire
More than 800 Afghans stormed Pul-I Charkhi prison near Kabul and freed at least 12 inmates amid chaos. One Afghan soldier and a civilian were killed, and shots rang out as guards and possibly Russian troops moved to quell the riot.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Pul-I Charkhi
Sadr warns blockading Iran could trigger war
Iran warns the United States that blocking shipping through the Strait of Hormuz would lead to war. Commerce Minister Reza Sadr cites two sided conflict and global economic damage while U.S. official Cyrus Vance refuses to rule out a naval blockade. The state trader says Western nations and Japan would suffer more than Iran from such a measure.
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Afghanistan
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Security Council
Council
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Cyrus Vance
Sadr
Iran
Tehran
UPI
U.N. Security Council
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Pars
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Strait of Hormuz
U.S
Vance
Nbc-Tv
Russia
Hormuz Strait
Gulf
Morteza Movahedizadeh
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