Reagan mulls ban on private payloads for shuttle launches
A Cabinet panel recommends NASA be barred from accepting commercial and foreign payloads when shuttle flights resume. If President Reagan accepts, it could cut the need for a new orbiter costing about 2.5 billion dollars to replace Challenger. Speakes said most cabinet members favor removing NASA from private satellite launches amid backlog and shuttle concerns.
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Space Agency
Thursy
Reagan
Economic Policy Council
White House
Larry Speakes
NASA
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Air Force
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Speakes
Detroit Teamsters end work stoppage in city trash battle
In Detroit hundreds of Teamsters trash haulers returned to work today as a 16 day strike by 7,000 city workers ended its walkout. New negotiations were planned with AFSCME and Council 25 to resume talks amid stalled bus service and garbage pickups.
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Detroit
Teamsters
Council 25
American Federation of State
Rise in heterosexual AIDS cases in the United States
Federal health officials released statistics showing an increase in AIDS cases transmitted through heterosexual activity. The national total reaches 862, roughly four percent of U S AIDS cases, including some cases among foreign born individuals now presumed to be infected via heterosexual contact.
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Atlanta
United States
Wham! Fan trapped teen survives wreck in Kingston
Gordon Pickrell, 18, says being pinned under his overturned MGB for six hours after rolling down a 22 foot embankment was bad but hearing Wham! on his tape recorder made it worse. Roane County deputies pulled him from the wreck in Kingston, Tennessee, on Wednesday.
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Kingston, Tenn
Wham
Gordon Pickrell
Kingston
Roane County
Pickrell
Drought Ravages Delaware Counties
Delaware farmers in Kent New Castle and Sussex counties can apply for emergency Farm Home Administration loans after designation as natural disaster areas. Eligibility requires inability to obtain credit and application through local FmHA offices.
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Delaware
Farmers Home Administration
Agriculture
E. Lyng
Lyng
Kent
New Castle
Sussex
Fmha
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