Reagan signals shift on defense budget cuts
President Reagan indicated flexibility on defense spending saying cuts are acceptable if not endangering national security. He pressed for a September U N summit with Mikhail Gorbachev and discussed arms control issues and Soviet policy during a White House breakfast with reporters.
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United States
Soviet Union
Honest tax return worth 1 million proposes IRS aid
A Psychology Today article reports social scientists suggested methods to curb tax cheating, including a million-dollar lottery, positive rebates, easier audits, a check-off designating funds, and celebrity advertising to promote taxpaying. A Yankelovich poll shows 20 percent admit cheating, with 41 percent believing others cheat.
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New York
Internal Revenue Service
Psychology Today
Elizabeth F. Loftus
University of Washington At
Seattle
Loftus
Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc
GE faces defense fraud indictment over warhead contracts
GE plans to fight charges as a five year probe into its aerospace group leads to a potential indictment. The U S Attorney in Philadelphia tied the probe to Minuteman missile warhead billings. General Dynamics also faces scrutiny for conflicts of interest and sloppy billing practices and will withdraw 23 million of 170 million in overhead claims.
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John Torino
Terino
Lewis
Two Kidnappings Reported in Lebanon Amid Rising Abductions
Gunmen seized a British journalist near Beirut while a Lebanese underground group claimed abducting a Frenchman in Tripoli. The group demanded a comrade jailed in France be freed within 48 hours for the Frenchman Gilles Sidney Peyrolles.
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France
Gilles Sidney Peyrolles
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Alec Collett
U.N. Relief and Works Agency
Israel and U S to intensify search for Mengele
Justice Ministry says Israel and the United States agreed in Jerusalem to cooperate more closely in locating Josef Mengele the Auschwitz doctor and top Nazi suspect. Justice Minister Moshe Nissim met Neal Sher head of the U S Office of Special Investigations to discuss joint actions. Mengele is believed to have selected 400 000 people for death at Auschwitz and would be 73 today.
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United States
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Auschwitz
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Moshe Nissim
Neal Sher
U.S. Justice Department
Office of Special Investigations
Mengele
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Reagan presses House to approve MX missile funding
President Reagan and Max Kampelman urged House members to back $1.5 billion for 21 MX missiles, arguing a vote to stop production would jeopardize Geneva talks with the Soviet Union. Kampelman aimed to sway 15 to 20 undecided members as Speaker O'Neill warned of a tight race.
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Reagan
Max Kampelman
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Soviet Union
Kampelman
Switzerland
Thomas O'Neill
D-Mass
O'Neill
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United States
Capitol
Congress
Edward Markey
Markey
Ex-Marine held on threats to Reagan life in bar claim
Robert N. Hummel, 26, an ex Marine from Columbia, was ordered held in New York in lieu of 1 million bail after Secret Service said he threatened Reagan in a Washington bar. He allegedly armed himself and hid behind bushes as Reagan left Bethesda Naval Hospital. In Chicago, publisher Charles Armstrong Sr. was killed and his son wounded by Roscoe Evans, who then drank drain cleaner. Evans, Armstrong’s daughter’s ex.
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Lebanon
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Metropolitan Correctional Institution
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Robert Cowen
Secret Service
Washington, D.C
Hummel
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Maryland
Chicago
Charles Armstrong Sr
Chicago Metro News
South Side
Michael Reese Hospital
Catherine Reardon
Roscoe Evans
Nathaniel Clay
Armstrong
Evans
Democrats warn Gorbachev on arms control breaches
Twenty three Democratic members of the House sent a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev urging strict compliance with existing arms control treaties. They warn that noncompliance could threaten future space defense limits and the ABM treaty, citing a radar project near Krasnoyarsk as a potential violation and urging satisfactory resolution to avoid eroding support in Congress and among the public.
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Wisconsin
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