Flooding Strands West Alton as Two Rivers Break Levees
Western river crisis spreads as six Coast Guard boats assist evacuations in West Alton Missouri after a north levee breach and south levee failure on the peninsula. Mississippi and Missouri rivers rise above flood stage forcing thousands to flee.
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Reagan Demands Arms Policy, Shutdown Threat Drives Stopgap Bill
Congress approved a two day emergency spending measure after President Reagan warned Democrats that long term arms restrictions risked a government shutdown. The stopgap funds renew current spending while talks on the veto threatened long bill continue.
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Judge blocks Claiborne witnesses as Senate impeachment moves on
Judge Harry Claiborne fails to block Senate actions in his impeachment trial. The Senate rejected his demand to summon witnesses and a federal judge declined to interfere, ruling the court cannot govern legislative proceedings. Claiborne and his counsel plan to appeal to the U S Court of Appeals as four articles move toward conviction.
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Greene
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Timothy S. Cory
Michael Davidson
House
Bob Dole
Kan
Teen's arms reattached after Minnesota farm accident
Surgeons reattached the arms of 13 year old David Vining at North Memorial Medical Center Robbinsdale after a shoulder level amputation from a farm accident. Recovery will take more than a year with nerve regeneration and therapy likely required.
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David
Marlene Viring
Hillman
David O. Smith
Virnig
Little Falls
Virnigs
North Memorial Medical Center
Jacuzzis inventor Candi do Jacuzzi dies at 83 in Sun City
Candi do Jacuzzi creator of the whirlpool bath named for him dies at 83 in Sun City Arizona. He was the youngest of seven brothers who emigrated from northern Italy to Berkeley California where the family ran a machine shop. A separate note mentions Reagan veto override votes and a Pennsylvania medical study on early discharge reducing costs.
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Candido Jacuzzi
Jacuzzi
Italy
Berkeley
Calif
World song fund tops 50 million amid another 12 million pledge
Hunger aid efforts led by USA for Africa report 51.2 million raised from the We Are The World campaign and Hands Across America. California receives 1.2 million, Texas 1 million, New York 839 thousand as Kragen lists state allocations.
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USA For
Africa
Ken Kragen
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Kragen
FCC probes KPFK FM for broadcast with graphic sexual content
Federal investigators examine a KPFK F M program that included masturbation intercourse and group sex dialogue aired August 31. A minister who heard the segment filed the complaint sparking the probe, the FCC says it is the first major obscenity inquiry since George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words ruling.
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