MX missile approved by House but base plan delayed
The House endorsed the MX mobile missile by 316 to 96 but sidetracked the desert base plan to shelter 4,600 missiles in Utah and Nevada. An amendment to cut the $2.4 billion MX funding failed 316 to 96 while a delay on desert leasing was approved pending President Reagan’s decision.
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Washington
House
Utah
Nevada
Ronald Dellums
D-Calif
James Hansen
Reagan
Marilyn Lloyd Bouquard
Dtenn
Hansen
Carter
United States
Dellums
Samuel Stratton
D-N.y
Congress
Paul Simon
D-Ill
Melvin Price
D-Till
Armed Services Committee
Wyche Fowler Jr
D-Ga
Pentagon
Senate moves toward defining life at conception
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee voted 3-2 to define human life as beginning at conception and grant unborn fetuses full constitutional rights under the 14th Amendment. oppose counter efforts seek constitutional amendment as full committee delays votes until fall or winter.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Judiciary
Sen
Jeremiah Denton
R-Ala
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
John East
R-N.c
Subcommittee
Supreme Court
America
East
High
Califronia produce quarantine eyed medfly battle
California Governor Brown escalates action against the medfly as Washington reportedly set a quarantine on interstate fruit and vegetable shipments. Officials warn of multi hundred million dollar crop losses while ground crews in Santa Clara County strip trees and spray with malathion and diazinon near Palo Alto to San Jose.
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Morgan Hill
Calif
Califrnia
Edmund Brown Jr
Washington
California
Thomas
Clark Biggs
California Farm Bureau Federation
Biggs
Civilian Conservation
National Guard
Santa Clara County
San Francisco
Palo Alto
San Jose
Paradox of Saving Shifts From Luxuries to Money
The piece notes a behavioral shift where people formerly denied luxuries to save money now sacrifice cash to secure future wealth. It contrasts past frugality with current trend of trading immediate funds for long term financial goals.
C R woman yields yard after weed order
Helen Troxel at 1138 Prairie Drive NE says she chose natural landscaping and mowed her front yard on Thursday after being ordered to cut by Monday by Darrell Freese, the city weed commissioner. She defended her prairie grasses and wildflowers while noting the publicity and critters in the yard.
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Helen Troxel
Prairie Drive
Troxel
Darrell Freese
the Gazette
University of Iowa Named National Cancer Research Center
The National Cancer Institute designates the University of Iowa as the nation's newest cancer research center. With a $772,800 three year grant, UI researchers and University Hospitals and Clinics staff join 70 plus centers to study prevention and treatment, expanding facilities for data management tissue culture and radiation research.
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David Dudley
University of Iowa
U of
National Cancer Center
Iowa City
National Cancer Institute
U of I
U.S
NCI
Richard DeGowin
UI Cancer Center
Cancer Center
DeGowin
College of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
College of Pharmacy
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D-Mich
Medicine and Research
Morris Abram
Brandeis University
Commission
The
Los Angeles Times
William Thomas
John Black
Abby
Marion
Iowa
Family Farm
C.R
Ison County
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