Economic news wraps inflation fears with outlooks on growth
March saw fruit prices surge 15.7 percent and vegetables 5.6 percent due to crop damage in California and the East. The Reagan administration's payment in kind program aims to curb prices but may raise consumer costs. Industrial production rose 2.1 percent in March, the strongest since August 1975, with analysts forecasting mixed inflation and growth signals.
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Hot Springs
Ratajczak
Regan
Business Council
Weather report extended forecast and severe storm events
Extended forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions Monday through Wednesday with little precipitation. Highs in the 50s to 60s and Lows from the 30s to 40s. Severe thunderstorms hit the central U S with tornadoes in Texas panhandle and Oklahoma and reports of hail up to baseball size in Missouri and Texas. Snow continues in Colorado and northern New Mexico with travel advisories in effect.
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Dioxin Contamination Spurs Relocation in Missouri
EPA and FEMA coordinate to remove residents from a Missouri trailer park after soil tests show dioxin levels as high as 1100 parts per billion under a central road. Immediate motel housing is planned with long-term options to follow.
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Minker-Stout
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Lee Thomas
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Russell Bliss
Weinberger Warns Soviets and Syria on Aggression
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger warned that any Soviet or proxy aggression from Syria would be met with retaliatory force sufficient to erase any gain for the aggressors. He defended U S commitments to Israel and urged moderates in the Arab world to back Lebanon peace efforts.
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Weinberger
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Lebanon
American Jewish Committee
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Super termites spread to Orlando duplex
A University of Florida expert reports a swarm of "super termites" feeding six times more wood than normal pests has been found in a duplex two miles from downtown Orlando Florida.
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Fla
University of Florida
Louisiana
Texas
South Florida
Hallandale
Koehler
Institute
Bob Thomas
Campbell pleads guilty in killing of D M woman
Paul C. Campbell pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 1981 strangulation and stabbing of Des Moines woman Sherri Henderson. He was sentenced to 10 years in Anamosa and will face Missouri charges of robbery and sexual abuse. Malroy Cunningham’s murder trial is pending.
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Paul C. Campbell
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Polk County
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Glanton
Iowa
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Bailey
Missouri
Sherri Lynn Henderson
Malroy Cunningham
Henderson
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