Food and fuel push wholesale prices down in August
The Labor Department says wholesale prices fell 0.3 percent in August led by a 0.7 percent drop in food costs and a 2.1 percent fall in beef and veal. Gasoline and energy prices also declined while fresh fruit and poultry rose. Inflation at the retail level runs about 3.7 percent so far this year.
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Washington
Labor Department
White House
Reagan
Beryl Sprinkel
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Congress
Propaganda blast hits Nicaragua in World Court clash
The United States accused Nicaragua of ongoing aggression against its neighbors and said a State Department report shows Sandinista support for leftist rebels in El Salvador Honduras and Costa Rica. Nicaragua denied arming allies and called the U.S. move a distractive ploy while boycotting The Hague hearing.
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Washington
United States
U.S
Nicaragua
State Department
Hague
Elliott Abrams
inter-American Affairs
Abrams
el Salvador
Honduras
Costa Rica
Miriam Hooker
Boeing 747 bolts break reports in tail sections
An inspection of 69 Boeing 747s by Japanese carriers found broken bolts loose bolt fixtures and damaged rivets in the tail sections of 26 aircraft. The checks followed the Aug. 12 JAL crash that killed 520 plus four aboard.
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Tokyo
Transport Ministry
Japan Air Lines
Boeing
Reagan says ready for serious give and take in nuclear talks
President Ronald Reagan announced the United States is ready for serious give and take in nuclear arms negotiations with the Soviets as talks resume next week. He urged concrete Soviet proposals to move the talks and advance intensified U.S.-Soviet dialogue, while officials doubt rapid progress will occur.
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Washington
Reagan
United States
Senate rejects amnesty proposal amid immigration bill debate
The Senate voted 65 to 26 against a plan to grant broad amnesty to many illegal aliens while employer sanctions take effect, as it moved toward a final vote on the immigration bill next week.
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Washington
Senate
Tutu rejects government reform moves in apartheid clash
Desmond Tutu and the United Democratic Front dismiss government reforms as token steps. A white business delegation met with exiled ANC leaders in Zambia seeking common ground as Botha eyes shared power and citizen rights for blacks in homeland areas.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Desmond Tutu
Zambia
P.W. Botha
United Democratic Front
Botha
Tutu
African National Congress
Kenneth Kaunda
Luangwa
Gavin Kelly
Anglo American Corp
Administration eyes action on acid rain threat
New England governors heard Drew Lewis say the White House should stop just studying acid rain and push a cleanup program. He hinted at a possible 1 billion dollar plan to curb smokestack sulfur dioxide emissions as envoys Davis and Lewis prepare a report within a year. Governors welcomed the admission of the problem and the shift in policy.
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West Springfield
Mass
Reagan
White House
Drew Lewis
New England
Lewis
Connecticut
William A. O’neill
Brian Mulroney
United States
William G. Davis
Canada
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