Defense computers obsolete threaten modern war readiness
Washington AP study finds the Defense Department relies on thousands of aging computers, with Air Force systems near capacity and vulnerable to attack. The report criticizes management neglect, GSA procurement barriers, and calls for modernization policies to replace old hardware with newer machines to cut costs and boost readiness.
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U.S
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Office of Management and Budget
Air Force
Carter
Defense Department
Pentagon
Radio Shack
Carter Administration
Father-Stepfather of 31 Shot at Surprise Birthday Party
John Bell Wooden, father or stepfather of 31, was shot through the heart and killed at a Miami birthday gathering when he intervened in a dispute with an uninvited guest, Kevin Yearby, 19, later charged with second-degree murder. Yearby was captured by outraged attendees. Wooden died at Jackson Memorial Hospital after family rushed him there. Yearby’s skull fracture and injuries left him in fair condition as police and security restrained the crowd. Police say the party erupted after Yearby demanded a photo with Willie Bell Wooden and brandished a .22 caliber revolver when declined.
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Miami
John Bell Wooden
Wooden
Kevin Yearby
Mike Gonzalez
Frank
James
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Yearby
Gonzalez
James Wooden
Mary Yearby
Patricia Wooden
Willie Bell Wooden
Jailed Iranians claim unfair arrests refuse to talk
Forty seven Iranians in Monroe on day four of hunger strike say they were targeted for political and racial reasons after disrupting a speech by former Iranian diplomat Fereydoun Hoveyda at Northeast Louisiana University. They refuse to enter pleas or reveal identities, risking arraignment as police bar supporters and cite missing forms.
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Iran
Marion Overton White
Northeast Louisiana University
Fereydoun Hoveyda
United Nations
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Patrick White
Optimistic deficit projection grows for 1981 budget
The Congressional Budget Office revised its outlook on the 1981 deficit from an initial 20 billion dollars to potentially more than 25 billion. CBO director Alice Rivlin noted the president’s January budget could exceed 20 billion with defense fuel costs and possible military pay raises. She warned savings plans might add up to 10 billion if hospital cost containment fails, while uncontrollable outlays like debt interest and Social Security rose sharply, driven by price indexing.
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Air Defense Command
Washington
UPI
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Carter
Alice Rivlin
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Senate Budget Panel
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Senate
Ter
Paul Simon
D-Ill
Missing Imam Musa Sadr drives Beirut hijack
A young Lebanese Shiite man hijacked a Middle East Airlines Boeing 707 from Amman to Beirut with a toy pistol. He surrendered after landing 20 minutes later, leaving 65 passengers unharmed while seeking to revive interest in Imam Musa Sadr who vanished 18 months earlier.
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Beirut. Lebanon
Beirut
Middle East Airlines
Imam Musa Sadr
Lebanon
Libya
Amman
Jordan
Goldwater brands Nixon dishonest on 60 Minutes
Senator Barry Goldwater labeled former President Richard Nixon dishonest and said he nearly destroyed the country. Nixon resigned in 1974 over Watergate after working with Goldwater for decades.
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New York
Barry Goldwater
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Republican Party
America
China
Goldwater
Richard Milhous Nixon
Social Security to get 13 percent cost of living raise in July
Health Secretary Patricia Harris says Social Security beneficiaries will receive a full cost of living increase of over 13 percent in July. She discussed proposed budget cuts for H E W but said the raise would not be affected and offered no specifics on agency program cuts amid the Carter administration's 1981 budget balancing effort.
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Pentagon
General Services Administration
GSA
Budget Office
General Accounting Office
House
Government Operations Committee
Army
Midwest
Washington
Health, Education and Welfare
Patricia Roberts Harris
Shamir Resigns Speaker Post to Accept Foreign Minister Role
Yitzhak Shamir resigns as Knesset speaker to join the government as foreign minister. The Cabinet unanimously approves the appointment, with Begin’s Likud majority in the one-house Knesset backing the move amid debate on Israel’s foreign policy and settlement policy.
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Menachem Begin
Shamir
Israel
Begin
Camp David
Knesset
Congressional panel faults NASA on Skylab warnings
The House Government Operations Committee accuses NASA of lacking candor with the public and Congress stating Skylab’s fall was not loudly warned and landed in uninhabited Australia and remote ocean areas. In Maine a record number of petition signatures were validated regarding a separate question.
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House
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Australia
Congress
Augusta
Maine
Secretary of State
Jewish protesters clash at Carter campaign office in Miami
Seven protesters identifying as Jewish Defense League members briefly occupied President Carter's Miami campaign office in a protest over the U N vote on Israeli settlements. No arrests or serious injuries were reported as police arrived and warned against trespassing.
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Jewish Defense League
Carter
U.S
United Nations
Kevin Foley
South Florida
Glenn Gottlieb
Gottlieb
Mideast
U.N. Security Council
Jerusalem
White House
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