Author John Gardner Dies in Motorcycle Accident
BINGHAMTON NY AP Author John Gardner 49 a skilled classicist and innovative writer was killed in a motorcycle crash in Oakland Township Susquehanna County PA near his PA home He had planned to marry Susan Thorton 32 this weekend Gardner headed SUNY Binghamton Creative Writing since 1978 and wrote The Sunlight Dialogues and October Light.
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Democrats Move Bill Aiming For Balanced Budget Encouragement
The Democratic task force led by House Speaker Thomas ONeill plans a bill to urge a balanced federal budget starting in 1984. It would require president submitted balanced budgets and congressional approval, with loopholes for economic necessity or national security and no mandate to end the deficit.
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Poles protest in four cities over martial law regime
In four Polish cities including Wroclaw protests erupted Monday against martial law. Police detained 59 after a riot in Wroclaw while Nowa Huta saw tear gas and water cannon use. authorities said Solidarity would not be outlawed and reported improving debt talks.
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Reagan Says 3 Month Fetuses Survived
President Reagan stirred controversy by claiming that babies born after three months of pregnancy have lived and grown normally. A spokesman admitted he misspoke, noting he meant a four and a half month fetus with survival. The source of the claim disputed the president’s numbers and timing.
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Fallout trial opens over Nevada test fallout harms
In Salt Lake City witnesses describe skin reddening and blisters among residents downwind from Nevada Test Site blasts in the 1950s and 1960s. The opening day of a federal lawsuit cites 1,192 plaintiffs and argues the government knew radiation hazards but failed to protect the public.
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Democrats Launch Nationwide Ads Against Republican Economic Policies
The Democratic Party announced a radio and TV advertising blitz denouncing Republican economic policies as unfair and crushing hopes. DNC Chair Charles Manatt said ad buys will total between $1 million and $2 million with production costs around $75,000, running before the November elections.
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US Marine helicopter crash over North Sea kills five
A U S Marine helicopter plunges into the North Sea during NATO maneuvers off Okso boel Denmark. Five crew members are confirmed dead with possible additional Marines aboard. NORTHERN WEDDING exercise includes 25 000 troops from the U S Denmark and the Netherlands.
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Soviet bombing kills 64 in Afghan villages
Soviet retaliatory raids last week killed at least 64 people, including women and children, in two Afghan villages in Paghman province about 37 miles north of Kabul. Western diplomatic sources said the bombing targeted what they called Afghan resistance areas.
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Leicester Hemingway dies in apparent suicide at 67
Doris Hemingway says diabetes and family history contributed to Leicester Hemingway's decline before he was found dead Monday in Miami Beach from an apparent self inflicted gunshot. Coroners began an autopsy Tuesday with results pending. Leicester, born April 1915 in Oak Park, was the youngest Hemingway son and a writer like his brother Ernest who won the Nobel Prize in 1954.
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Kissinger to Join ABC News as Analyst and Contact
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger signed a contract with ABC News to serve as an analyst and information contact for programs including Nightline and This Week With David Brinkley. He begins contributing later this month under a nonexclusive arrangement. Broadway star Mary Martin leaves San Francisco General Hospital nine days after a fatal crash killed her manager and injured Janet Gaynor. She uses a walker and will require therapy and monitoring with private nursing.
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