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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1981
Page
2
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Newsweek reports CIA Director William Casey approved a scheme involving a disinformation campaign, a counter government, and a paramilitary effort to remove Muammar Kaddafi. The House Intelligence Committee protested, interpreting the plan as a call for assassination. Max Hugel reportedly presented the plan amid Casey's Senate probe.
The Delaware County Daily Times lists publication details including USPS 151900, publisher Central States I Te Inc at 500 Mildred Ave Primos PA. It notes second class mail at Clifton Heights Post Office and subscription costs 40.56 for six months 81.12 for one year in Zones 1 and 2 plus home delivery at 90 cents per week.
New York United Press International reports a Newsweek Gallup poll showing 61 percent oppose resuming F 16 deliveries to Israel after a Beirut raid. About 30 percent favor delivering 10 aircraft, amid civilian casualties from the attack on Palestinian guerrilla headquarters.
In Belfast two hunger strikers, Kieran Doherty and Kevin Lynch, near death after 66 and 65 days without food respectively, with Doherty losing hearing and nearly blind while Lynch suffers severe mouth ulcers. Paddy Quinn remains gravely ill at 42 days. The torment continues as authorities report deterioration and no end in sight to the 148 day crisis.
In a Washington-brief, the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics asks President Reagan to ease federal rules that bar medical use of marijuana. The group says bureaucrats insist the plant has no accepted medical use and urges reforms to expand therapeutic access.
A letter to President Reagan argues the Carter administration misvalued medical uses of marijuana while noting 32 states have approved medical use for cancer chemotherapy, glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis. ACT president Robert Randall says the public and states rejected Carter's timidity on the issue. The federal government supplies the marijuana.
A Sunday afternoon tornado touched down in Indiana County Pennsylvania and damaged structures including the Sheraton Evergreen Inn where 40 guests were evacuated as sections of the roof blew off. One man was injured by a blown garage roof as the storm affected neighboring Cambria County with downed trees and power lines reported.
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