Reagan considers 40 percent boost in Central America aid
The Reagan administration weighs a 40 percent rise in military aid next year to Central American allies, with Costa Rica Guatemala El Salvador and Honduras among beneficiaries. A classified NSC working paper says the plan aims to deter Soviet Cuban intervention and may include prepositioning equipment and upgrading Honduran facilities. The document also supports Salvadoran troops operating in Honduran territory and ongoing covert actions against Nicaragua.
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Central America
New York Times
Washington
White House
U.S
Interagency
National Security Council
Costa Rica
Guatemala
el Salvador
Honduras
Reagan
Honduran
Central Intelligence Agency
Republican senator says covert aid backfired in Nicaragua
Senator David Durenberger states that U.S. covert support of counterrevolutionaries against Nicaragua's Sandinista government helped them endure and polarized opposition. He notes the plan may have prevented Sandinista collapse, while House debates ending aid and funding regional anti gun-running efforts.
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Washington
Senate Intelligence Committee
Nicaragua
Sen
David Durenberger
R-Minn
Durenberger
CIA
House
U.S
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
NOW leader Ginny Foat appeals amid murder trial
California NOW head Ginny Foat addressed 600 supporters at a Oakland convention urging her place in the women rights struggle while NOW members voted on her successor during a two day meeting.
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Oakland
Calif
California
Ginny Foat
Louisiana
Ms. Foat
National Organization For Women
Iridium-192 Crates Unloaded After Plane Crash in Bristol
Specialists in white coveralls unloaded two steel and lead crates of Iridium-192 from a small cargo plane that ran off a runway and burned. Officials report no radiation leak and say the 500 pound containers held 150 to 200 wafers used for X radiography of welds.
Titanic wreck search sails from Halifax for propeller clue
A Columbia University team led by Texas millionaire Jack Grimm left Halifax at dawn aboard a research vessel aiming to reach a canyon two miles deep on the continental shelf where a sunken Titanic propeller may lie. They expect to arrive Sunday night after the voyage.
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New York
North Atlantic
Jack Grimm
Columbia University
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Grimm
Bus crash injures 39 on Nevada highway
A charter bus veered off a lonely stretch of Interstate 15 near Las Vegas injuring at least 39, with three in critical condition. The bus fell down an embankment and across two ravines, landing upright 441 feet from the highway. No other vehicles were involved.
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Las Vegas
Nev
California Highway Patrol
Carol Martinez
Former Reagan aide names memo sources
Wayne Valis has told federal investigators the names of two people outside the Carter White House who he says were sources for a 1980 memo about a Carter staff brainstorming session before a presidential debate. FBI interviews targeted John Lenczowski and Robert D. Leahy as part of the probe into how Carter materials surfaced with Reagan campaign aides.
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Washington Post
Washington
Reagan
Wayne Valis
Carter White House
Reagan National Security Council
FBI
Valis
John Lenczowski
National Security Council
Robert D. Leahy
Justice Department
Valls
Carter
Carter Camp
Two Pentecostals to leave U S S R for United States
The State Department says the last two of seven Pentecostals who sought asylum in the U S Embassy Moscow have permission to emigrate. Maria Chmykhalov and her son join 12 relatives en route to Vienna and eventual settlement in the United States, completing a four year pursuit for asylum from persecution faced in Siberia.
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London
Grosvenor Square
U.S
Hyde Park
Kensington Palace Gardens
United States
Alamogordo
N.M
Washington
Moscow
Soviet Union
State Department
Maria Chmykhalov
Siberia
Vienna
Blahoslav Hruby
Hruby
New York City
Israel
Nation's medical bill climbs 12.5 percent to 322 billion
U S health spending rose to 322.4 billion in 1982, 12.5 percent higher than 1981, amounting to 10.5 percent of GNP. Federal, state, and local government financed 42 percent while individuals paid about a third and private insurance the remaining quarter. Hospital care led with 135.5 billion, followed by physician services and other sectors.
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Durenberger
Reagan
Washington
America
Department of Health and Human Services
U.S
Health and Human Services
Margaret Heckler
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Olga Hruby
Mrs
Czechoslovakia
Daniel P. Bourque
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James Cagney
Phyllis Diller
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