Congress attacks Watt offshore plan as misguided policy
A Democratic House Interior subcommittee staff report harshly criticizes Interior Secretary Watt's five year plan to lease about 1 billion acres of the outer continental shelf. It argues flawed economics, poor policy balance with state and local interests, and potential delay and litigation.
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James G. Watt
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D-Mass
Doug Baldwin
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Women Miners Conference Gains UMWA Endorsement
United Mine Workers President Richard Trumka met Pennsylvania women miners Bonnie Cogley Randy Daly and Janice Turney after his address to the Fifth National Conference of Women Miners near Pittsburgh. The union’s first public endorsement of the meeting came as about 200 women miners attended.
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Richard Trumka
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Pennsylvania
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Liberal Democrats seen widening lead in Japan upper house vote
Opinion surveys project the Liberal Democratic Party under Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone gaining five to 15 seats in the House of Councillors as voters go to the polls for the election, the first nationwide test of his leadership since he took office last November.
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Tokyo
Liberal Democratic Party
Yasuhiro Nakasone
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Liberal Democrats
Japan
House of Councillors
Working Mothers and Single-Parent Households Linked to Lower Test Scores
A national study funded by the Department of Education finds that children from single parent homes and students with working mothers score lower on achievement tests. In two parent white families high schoolers with mothers full time employed show up to nine percentile points lower, while single parent black children show lower scores unless the mother works, and homework and television habits affect outcomes differently across ages.
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Washington Post Service
Washington
Department of Education
National Institute of Education
Kentucky Governor Brown Undergoes Open-Heart Surgery
Gov. John Y. Brown Jr. had open-heart surgery after tests revealed three major blockages in his heart’s branches. Dr. John Thompson said the procedure was preventive, not emergency, with low risk and no permanent damage. Brown, 6 foot 1 and about 175 pounds, is a smoker with a history of high blood pressure. He was admitted after chest pains following a Cabinet meeting at Lake Barkley.
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John Y. Brown Jr
John Thompson
University of Kentucky Department of Medicine
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Lake Barkley
Kentucky
Israeli doctors in hunger strike collapse and seek arbitration
Hundreds of Israeli doctors fasting for higher pay collapsed from weakness and were treated in ER. About 2,700 of 4,500 public doctors joined the 12 day protest as hospitals slowed admissions and some serious cases moved to private facilities. Prime Minister Begin and ministers planned to push arbitration to end the dispute amid ongoing talks with the Israel Medical Association.
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Israel
Israel Radio
Menachem Begin
Yoram Aridor
Begin
Aridor
Israel Medical Association
Doctors’ Union
Italian election dull likely to keep CD dominance
Italians vote Sunday and Monday as the Christian Democrats under 54 year old Ciriaco De Mita aim to hold their 38.3 percent share from 1979. About 44 million people are eligible to vote in the national election.
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Communist Party
Christian Democrats
Ciriaco de Mita
Reagan division weighs India nuclear spare parts request
The Reagan administration faces an undecided decision on waiving the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act to supply spare parts for two U.S.-built nuclear reactors in India. The pending choice comes days before a State Department visit to India and centers on export controls affecting future U.S. nuclear trade.
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Washington
Reagan
Secretary of
India
United States
U.S
Woman held on murder charges after fatal stabbing of son
Karen J. Cage, 37, of West Chicago, was jailed with $600000 bond after allegedly fatally stabbing her 5 year old son Matthew and injuring 6 year old Steven in Woodstock. Police say she is charged with murder and attempted murder. she received treatment for self inflicted wounds at Sherman Hospital.
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Ill
Karen J. Cage
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Christopher Bish
Cage
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Steven
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