Argentine cruiser hit sparks Falklands clash
Argentine General Belgrano was damaged by a torpedo from a British nuclear submarine near the Falklands 200 mile exclusion zone. Argentina rejected a peace plan while Britain and Peru discussed possible cease-fire ideas. officials reported no fighting on the archipelago Sunday.
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Gazette
Buenos Aires
Argentina
General Belgrano
Falkland Islands
Falklands
New York
Francis Pym
Lima
Fernando Belaunde Terry
Alexander Haig
Belaunde Terry
U.S
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Frank Ortiz
Reagan
State Department
Washington
Britain
South Atlantic
Belaunde
Pym
U.N
Javier Perez de Cuellar
Anthony Parsons
Government expands guaranteed loans for private college students
Education Department regulations released Sunday allow most private college students from families earning up to 40000 yearly to qualify for full guaranteed loans this fall. Public four year college students fail to reach full 2500 loans if income exceeds 30000, but may obtain at least 1000 for incomes near 36000.
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Washington
Education Department
College Board
Exxon ends major Colony Shale Oil Project
Exxon USA will buy out Tosco Corp and shut down the Colony Shale Oil Project in Colorado after cost estimates rose from 2–3 billion to 5–6 billion dollars. The 40 percent Tosco stake and 500 million barrel shale reserves are involved. Exxon will develop an orderly shutdown plan.
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Houston
Exxon USA
Colony
Colorado
Randall Meyer
Tosco Corp
Exxon
Tosco
Meyer
F.D. Dennstedt
Tesco
Yellowstone letting nature balance herd, vegetation
Yellowstone Park faces severe winter with 4 to 5 feet of melting snow causing hardship for elk deer and bison. Carcasses line roads as policy aims to let natural cycles proceed, aiding grizzly bears and other carnivores. Park chief ranger Thomas Hobbs notes the necessity of this approach.
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York Times
Yellowstone Park
Wyo
Yellowstone
Disneyland
Park Service
National Park
Park
Rhode Island
Delaware
Thomas Hobbs
Record 12 percent rise in US prison population
The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports 1981 prison numbers at 369,009, a 12.1 percent increase. The rise follows tougher crime policies with mandatory and determinate sentencing expanding. Federal prisoners climbed 16 percent, as states struggle with overcrowding and parole rollbacks.
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Los Angeles Times Service
Washington
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau
Benjamin Renshaw
Department of Justice
Renshaw
Worldwide referendum on ending arms race
AP reports peace advocates consider a global referendum allowing every adult to vote on ending the arms race. Canada’s Operation Dismantle promotes UN backed referenda asking citizens about disarmament with cities in Canada already voting this fall. Leaders worry the idea may fail or discredit the movement but seek to mobilize public will.
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Washington
United Nations
Canada
T. James Stark
Stark
Index A personality is someone who contracts a virus
A concise remark defines an index of persona as someone who contracts a virus while others catch a cold. The quote notes the paradoxical sense of immune or exposed status in a social climate of illness. Copyright information follows.
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