Indians denounce Reagan cuts in self determination programs
Washington AP report says National Tribal Chairmen's Association representing 166 of 283 tribes accuses the Reagan administration of lip service to self determination while cutting funds for vital Indian programs. Leaders blame reduced services for higher unemployment hunger and deteriorating health care. Reuben Snake calls Reagan a liar at a news conference.
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Reagan Administration
National Tribal Chairmen’s Association
United States
Interior Department
Carl Shaw
Department
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau
Newton Lamar
Oklahoma
Reuben Snake
Nebraska
Reagan
White House
Doctors find injection can stop heart attack
Boston doctors report that injecting streptokinase directly into a clot can stop a heart attack as it happens and reduce heart damage when given within three to four hours. The therapy, first used in Germany, dissolves the clot via a catheter and showed meaningful benefits versus standard treatment in a New England Journal of Medicine report.
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Boston
Germany
United States
Jeffrey Anderson
LDS Hospital
Salt Lake City
Anderson
New England Journal of Medicine
Fareed Khaja
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit
Evacuees Return to Homes After Landslide Deluge
In Bountiful and Farmington Utah, about 1400 residents evacuated by floods and mudslide began returning home. Creeks and slide debris forced temporary evacuations while workers cleared mud and sandbags. One person suffered a broken leg. no other serious injuries reported.
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Bountiful
Utah
Stone Creek Canyon
Salt Lake City
Dean Stahle
Farmington
Man jumps to death from Empire State Building
A 23-year-old man from Mount Holly New Jersey repeatedly tried to leap from the Empire State Building before returning and climbing over a 12 foot fence on the observation deck. He leaped 86 stories to his death striking a parked car where two Canadians were seated. no injuries reported. police believe it to be the building’s 30th suicide since 1931.
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New York
Empire State Building
Jerry Larkin
Mount Holly
N.J
Bellevue Hospital
Larkin
Punitive damages rejected in 60 Minutes slander case
Los Angeles AP coverage reports that Judge Jack Swink ruled punitive damages cannot be awarded to Dr. Carl Galloway in the CBS 60 Minutes slander suit. The decision follows a trial ending Wednesday with final arguments set to begin, as Galloway seeks compensatory damages over the December 1979 Manchester West Clinic insurance report.
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Los Angeles
Superior Court
Jack Swink
Carl Galloway
CBS
60 Minutes
Dan Rather
Galloway
Manchester West Clinic
Trucker killed in gun attack on Rhode Island police station
In West Warwick Rhode Island a gunman fired on a police station killing truck driver Thomas Cutler 25 of Pine Island New York as he asked for directions Two officers escaped injury Police charged 32 year old William M Iovino with murder after a chase Iovino linked to a feud over car racing and threatening a councilwoman last August
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West Warwick
R.I
Thomas Cutler
Pine Island
N.Y
Ira Cook Jr. Cutler
William M. Iovino
Iovino
Danny Petrarca
Kent County Superior Court
Grenada’s Bishop says no threat to U.S. or others
Grenada Prime Minister Maurice Bishop told the Organization of American States that Grenada constitutes no threat to the United States or any country. He criticized U.S. Nicaragua policy and Grenada’s exclusion from the Caribbean Basin Initiative.
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Washington
Maurice Bishop
United States
Bishop
Organization of American States
Nicaragua
Grenada
Uganda Death Toll Surges Amid Two-Week Turmoil
Government troops and anti-government guerrillas are blamed for about 500 deaths in the past two weeks, with a raid on the Kikyusa refugee camp north of Kampala. Survivors say militants attacked refugees who aided Obote’s government. hospital officials report severe injuries including a baby missing fingers and a raped girl.
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Kampala
Uganda
Mumansi
Kikyusa
Associated Press
Milton Obote
Mulago
Weinberger urges allies to boost aid and defense spending
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger asked 14 Western alliance defense ministers in Brussels to increase allied efforts to help the United States manage crises in Afghanistan Iran and other trouble spots. He warned not to be caught unprepared and pressed for the highest possible defense spending by allied governments.
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Brussels
Belgium
Caspar Weinberger
United States
Afghanistan
Iran
Weinberger
Western Alliance
U.S
Children Enjoy Day of Festivities Across China
More than a million Chinese youths wore red scarves in marches in 10 cities for International Children's Day. Free theater rides and a school holiday accompanied Love the Children Week with new toys books movies and fashions flooding the market for children.
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Peking
China
Judges dismiss challenge to Alabama electric chair
Two federal judges in Mobile, Alabama dismissed a court challenge to the use of the electric chair despite a witness calling the chair a museum piece. The experts warned the chair could fail in the future, while the judges defended it as constitutional punishment.
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Mobile
Ala
Alabama
U.S
Sam Pointer Jr
W.B. Hand
Theodore Bernstein
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bernstein
Charles Graddick
New GOES 6 Weather Satellite Replaces Broken Unit
In Redwood City California an updated weather satellite GOES 6 began sending pictures to Earth on Wednesday to replace a failed unit leaving forecasters blind to Pacific storms. The orbiter will stay about 23 000 miles over the equator at 135 degrees west longitude and is to be renamed GOES West.
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Redwood City
Calif
Earth
Pacific
San Francisco
National Weather Service
Ken Holmes
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