House votes to reorganize Joint Chiefs
The House approved 383 to 27 a bill to reorganize the Joint Chiefs of Staff making the chairman the president's main military adviser while preserving the JCS. Critics warn it could weaken civilian control and staff competition and hinder joint action. The measure moves to the Senate with renewed interest.
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Washington
House
Joint Chiefs of Staff
JCS
Joint Chiefs
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marines
Secretary of Defense
National Security Council
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Ike Skelton
D-Mo
William Whitehurst
R-Va
Charles Bennett
D-Fla
Senate
Senate Armed Services Committee
Protest mob confronts British minister in Belfast clash
A group of about 30 Protestant demonstrators in Belfast pushed and shouted at Northern Ireland Secretary Tom King outside City Hall. One man seized King by the neck and tried to pull him to the ground as eggs and objects were hurled at his bulletproof limousine. King called the incident hooliganism and labeled the attackers thugs.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Tom King
King
City Hall
Feuding Tribes Clash Near Durban Leave Eight Dead
In a Durban shantytown, about 2000 Zulu and Pondo tribesmen fought using spears and clubs, killing at least eight and wounding many. The clashes followed a Tuesday stabbing that wounded Pondo Chief Malagazi, continuing a more than yearlong dispute between the groups.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Durban
Malagazi
Urban growth up in metropolitan areas, rural gains slow
The Census Bureau reports metropolitan areas added 4.5 percent to 180 million residents from 1980 to 1984 while nonmetropolitan residents rose 3.4 percent to 56.4 million. Metropolitan growth stays about 1 percent annually. rural growth slows to about 0.8 percent. House Ways and Means backs a roughly $4 billion five year tax hike on oil and gas firms, final vote 29 to 4, rejecting an attempt to shield industry taxes.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Washington (Ap
House
Ways and Means Committee
Reagan
Dan Rostenkowski
D-Iii
James Jones
D-Okla
Pentagon to muster inactive reservists for one-day annual drill
The Pentagon plans to require more than 450000 inactive reservists to report for a day of active duty each year starting fiscal 1987. Deputy Defense Secretary Taft approved the plan, aiming to locate IRR members, assess fitness and skills, and gauge mobilization readiness. The cost is about 61 million dollars annually.
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Washington
Pentagon
Defense
William Taft IV
James Webb
Webb
Taft
IRR
National Guard
Cedar Rapids
Russ Kaegbein
Weing Road
Kaegbein
Beirut
Pia Zadora Seeks Silence From Critics Amid Decline
Pia Zadora 28, married to Meshulam Riklis, laments critics calling her a joke and a poor performer. She labels Lonely Lady a turkey and says she dislikes being laughed at and attacked by the press.
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Zadora
Meshulam Riklis
Turkey
Evacuation Ordered as Hurricane Kate Nears Gulf Coast
Gov. Bob Graham ordered immediate evacuation of about 87 000 residents in eight northern Gulf counties as Kate bears down toward Florida. Forecasters warned of 115 mph winds and dangerous coastal conditions with gusts reported at 135 mph near a Gulf buoy.
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Pensacola
Fla
Bob Graham
Gulf Coast
Kate
Cuba
Gulf of Mexico
Florida Keys
Graham
Florida
National Guard
Bay
Escambia
Franklin
Gulf
Santa Rosa
Okaloosa
Walton
Wakulla
Joe Hunt
Okaloosa County
Shalimar
Panhandle
Peninsula
Elena
Resi
Dents
Juan
Louisiana
Plaquemines
Eddie Nolan
Bay St. Louis
Miss
New Orleans
St. Marks
Tallahassee
Grand Isle
Cedar Key
National Hurricane Center
Coral Gables
Miami
Apalachicola
Florida Panhandle
Mississippi
Alabama
Bonner wins limited travel ok for Sakharov wife to Rome and Boston
Yelena Bonner, gravely ill, won permission to travel from Gorky to Rome for eye tests and to Boston for bypass surgery. She signed a pledge not to speak to reporters, shielding details as she leaves internal exile. Sakharov halted a hunger strike and revoked his academy resignation, awaiting her return.
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Newton
Mass
Andrei Sakharov
Rome
Boston
Sakharov
Gorky
Yelena Bonner
Bonner
Soviet Union
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Pia Zadora
Ann Landers
Albert Lasker
St. Regis Hotel
New York
Congress
Sanders
Hereditary Disease Foundation
Santa Monica
Calif
Haig
Alexander Haig
Ronald Reagan
White House
Norman Brokaw
NATO
Brokaw
Gazette Wire Services
Town & Country Shopping Center
First Ave
S.E
Niger
Frontier
Blairs Ferry Rd
Aleksandr Nekrich
Harvard University
Alexei Semyonov
Tatiana Yankelevich
Yankelevich
Efrem
West
3Rd Avenue
Tatarem
Ritahi
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