Brezhnev Attacks Inefficient Soviet Management at Plenum
President Leonid Brezhnev criticized Soviet officials for poor management at a party plenary session. The meeting did not address Premier Kosygin's reported health issues. Mikhail Gorbachev was elevated to full Politburo member as food supply concerns and the 1981–85 Five Year Plan dominated the agenda.
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Moscow
UPI
Leonid Brezhnev
Communist Party Central Committee
Alexei Kosygin
Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Government pegs cost of child care far too low
Parents Magazine says federal estimates understate child rearing costs. It argues the expense to raise a child to age 18 could reach 254000, not counting college, after applying inflation and lost earnings estimates. The piece criticizes other low federal figures for feeding and clothing costs.
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New York
Parents Magazine
Thomas Tilling
Agriculture Department
The
Tilling
Fired transit worker charged with attempted murder in bus shooting
Ray Charles Goff, 23, a fired Dallas Transit System worker, faces three counts of attempted murder after a sniper injured a 9 year old girl and two others on a Dallas bus. Goff was arrested near a bus barn after a mass firing of about 450 employees for walkout over wages. The girl, Alisa Williams, was in critical condition at Dallas Children's Medical Center.
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Dallas
UPI
Ray Charles Goff
Alisa Williams
Dallas Children’s Medical Center
Goff
Farza Attack Blamed on Soviets Kills About 200
Indian Express cites a witness who says Soviet MiG jets and helicopter gunships destroyed half of Farza, a Kabul outskirts town of about 25 000, with 200 residents killed and orchards ruined. The claim awaits independent verification as Soviet forces press the Afghanistan campaign.
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New Delhi
India
Farza
Kabul
Indian Express
Afghanistan
Poland recognizes independent union Solidarity amid impasse
In Czestochowa Poland authorities agreed to recognize the Solidarity labor coalition the nation’s largest independent union ending a 27 day government union stalemate. An extra protocol will reference the Communist Party’s leading role while keeping it out of the charter.
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Czestochowa
Poland
UPI
Communist Party
Andrzej Gwiazda
Solidarity
Warsaw
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Gwiazda
Marian Jurczyk
Szczecin
Lech Walesa
Gdansk
Atlanta curfew and psychic join city homicide probe
Atlanta imposes a curfew as investigators seek the killer of 10 black children. A New Jersey psychic says she knows the name, while 50 by day canvass teams expand to hundreds across four neighborhoods, and police review an unverified report of three men abducting a girl.
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Atlanta
New Jersey
Philippines Offers Free Island Trips After ASTA Bombing
Travel agents were offered free plane trips to all 7,100 islands after the 50th anniversary ASTA conference in Manila was canceled following a bombing that injured seven Americans and 11 others. Tourism Minister Jose Aspiras announced the incentive at a government cocktail party, while officials noted many delegates altered plans to stay for the offer.
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Manila
Philippines
U.S
Jose Aspiras
Philippine International Convention Center
American Society of Travel Agents
Oelwein
Marsha Shepherd
William Ziegler
Philippine
Zieglers
Aspiras
ASTA
Liberation Movement
Ferdinand Marcos
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Politburo
Gorbachev
Plenum
Carter
Population Reference Bureau
Mark Hawkins
Hillsdale
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Hawkins
University of Michigan
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
Transit System
Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Ok’d Washington
Wayne Pines
Johnson and Johnson
Kimberly Clark
International Playtex and Company Corp
Our Frontier
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Stouffer
John Campbell
Barbers
Sfawn
Men & Women Inc
Men & Women, Inc
Industrial Blvd
Minneapolis
the Gazette
DIAL
Fort MacPherson
L. W. Bussey
Tom Mulally
Maj. W. Taylor
Dorcas W. Strong
Christian Science Board of Lectureship
Miss Strong
Cleveland
Ohio
First Church of Christ Scientist
Second Avenue
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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