House votes to pass Pentagon budget bill in split vote
The House approved a 239 to 177 vote on a Pentagon funding bill, with Republicans split over arms control provisions. The Senate failed to end a GOP filibuster over Reagan’s Star Wars policy, voting 59 to 39, short of the 60 needed to invoke cloture.
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Senate
Reagan
William Dickinson
R-Ala
Armed Services Committee
William Broomfield
Rmich
Foreign Affairs Committee
U.S
Nicaragua
Honduras
Costa Rica
United States
Pesticide risk cited in diet from 15 foods
The National Research Council warned 28 pesticides in 15 common foods including tomatoes grapes and beef could raise dietary cancer risk. If kept at legal limits up to 1.46 million extra tumors might appear over 70 years though not all would be fatal.
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Los Angeles Times
National Research Council
Environmental Protection Agency
Council
National Academy of Sciences
United States
Arthur Upton
New York University Medical Center
Upton
National Cancer Institute
Ray Thornton
University of Arkansas
Washington
Thornton
EPA
Senate Agricultural Committee
Congress
House
Agriculture Committee
Senate
Beulah MacDonald acquires United Klans of America HQ
In Mobile a Black woman Beulah MacDonald gained legal ownership of the United Klans of America headquarters in Tuscaloosa after a federal court awarded $7 million to her son’s bereaved mother. The building was the group’s sole asset following the 1981 killing of Michael Donald by two Klansmen. A Marine guard case is referred to civilian authorities. Fiji sees ethnic violence in Suva with 150 to 200 injured including Indians and two foreign journalists.
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Mobile
Ala
United Klans of America
Tuscaloosa
Beulah MacDonald
Donald
Michael
United Klans
Fiji
Suva
Johannesburg courthouse bombs kill three policemen
Two car bombs exploded outside a downtown magistrate’s court injuring five officers and nine civilians in a landmark attack blamed on the outlawed ANC. Police said the blast near the financial district was the worst Johannesburg has seen, with the second explosion propelling shrapnel into arriving responders.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
African National Congress
Financial District
Pretoria
Ape-like ancestor reshapes view of early humankind
New fossil find in East Africa links a Homo habilis skeleton to a bony limb set, showing ape-like proportions and short stature about 3 feet 4 inches. Researchers say this supports a rapid shift toward more human-like features within 1.8 million years. Discovery is detailed in Nature by Johanson, Kimbel, White and colleagues.
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New York
William Kimbel
Institute of Human Origins
Berkeley
Calif
Kimbel
Donald Johanson
Institute
Nature
Johanson
Tim White
University of California At Berkeley
United States
Tanzania
Boy Mauled by Polar Bears at New York Zoo
An 11 year old boy Juan Perez of Brooklyn was killed after two polar bears mauled him at Prospect Park Zoo as he and two other youths swam in the bears moat on a dare. Police said the other two fled after losing their nerve.
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New York Zoo
Juan Perez
Brooklyn
Perez
Prospect Park Zoo
VA hospitals blamed for missing hundreds of unexpected deaths
GAO findings show VA hospitals failed to report hundreds of unexpected deaths to headquarters. Investigators reviewed 138 cases across nine hospitals. only 19 were reported as unexpected deaths though 112 should have been listed. Senators Cranston and Murkowski urged reforms while avoiding malpractice claims.
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Los Angeles Times
Washington — Veterans Administration
General Accounting Office
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Cranston
Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Frank Murkowski
Alaska
GAO
Washington
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