Reagan and a world of Make-Believe in a calm, stormy era
A sharp political column rejects the idea of a post election clean slate. It criticizes Reagan era optimism, cites escalating deficits from 48.5 to 165 billion, mocks the inaugural image of pompon girls, and questions why a balanced budget is not pursued while the country tilts toward mock heroism in public life.
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Reagan
Dixon, Ill
White House
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Valley Forge
Alamo
Fonda
Wayne
Cooper
Lincoln
Houston
Hollywood
John Zaccaro
Bert Lance
Republican Senate
Ronald Reagan
West Virginia plant warned of runaway reaction at Institute
The internal report by Carbide warned that a runaway chemical reaction could occur in storage tanks at the Institute West Virginia plant and that the planned response would be too slow to prevent a catastrophic tank failure. It also cited water contamination incidents in Institute tanks.
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Washington Post
Washington
Union Carbide Corp
Bhopal
India
Carbide
Institute
W.va
Congressional
West Virginia
Henry Waxman
D-Calif
House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee On Health and Environment
Environmental Protection Agency
Robert Wise Jr
D-W.va
Carbide Board
Warren Anderson
Dick Henderson
EPA
Waxman
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA
Discovery launches on secret satellite spy mission
The shuttle Discovery carried a $300 million spy satellite on a classified mission from Cape Canaveral. NASA limited details citing Pentagon requirements as the crew of four begins a mission seen as militarizing space. The craft aims to track Soviet missile tests and monitor communications from a flight above 22 300 miles.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Discovery
America
Atlantic
Pentagon
Launch Control
The
Cape
Mission Control
Houston
NASA
Shuttle
Tom Utsman
Utsman
Department of Defense
Navy
Thomas Mattingly
U.S
Earth
Soviet Union
Undergraduates in professional majors score lower on grad tests
Deborah Jahnke heads to University of Wyoming after release from a Denver youth center while Clifford Adelman reports that majors in professional fields show lower Graduate Record Examinations and standardized test scores overall from 1964 to 1982. The study notes declines in average scores on most GRE tests across subjects.
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Washington
Clifford Adelman
National Institute of Education
America
Cheyenne
Wyo
Deborah Ann Jahnke
Wyoming
Denver
Deborah
Excelsior
University of Wyoming
Laramie
Terry Mackey
Richard
Richard C. Jahnke
Jahnke
Gazette Wire Services
Chernenko calls for concrete steps to halt arms race
Soviet leader Chernenko in a letter to Canadian student Laurie Piraux urged concrete steps to end the arms race and lessen fear for the future while remaining out of public view due to illness. Greece withdraws from NATO Defense College over a coup exercise. Israel and Lebanon suspend talks on troop withdrawal amid fears of conflict. Gen Fabian Ver surrenders with bail in Aquino murder case.
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Moscow
Konstantin Chernenko
Laurie Piraux
Calgary
Alberta
Chernenko
Tass
Piraux
NATO Defense College
Greece
Jerusalem
Israel
Lebanon
Manila
Philippines
Fabian Ver
Armed Forces
Benigno Aquino
Gazette Wire Services
Vietnamese Shell Strikes Camp, 21000 Flee to Thailand
Vietnamese artillery hit the Dong Rak camp of the Khmer People's National Liberation Front forcing more than 21000 civilians to flee toward a U N evacuation site at Site 2 in Thailand. Icrc said 14 killed and 26 wounded among the refugees rushed to Khao I Dang hospital.
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Aranyaprathet
Thailand
International Committee of the Red Cross
Dong Rak
Khmer People’s National Liberation Front
Red Cross
Khao-I-Dang
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Maine
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Jack Jones
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