VA funding cuts eyed to slash veterans programs and staff
Rep. Robert Edgar says Reagan advisers favor immediate end to Vietnam veterans counseling and a 20,000 person reduction over five years, with 1,100 positions cut in medicine and surgery and 3,200 from veterans benefits, plus halting construction projects and education programs. VFW and lawmakers react strongly amid budget battles.
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Pippert
Veterans Administration
Reagan
Robert Edgar
D-Pa
Lee
White House
Edgar
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Margaret Heckler
R-Mass
Arthur Finlock
VFW
Finlock
Washin Reagan
Phil Gramm
Texas
House Budget Committee
Gramm
David Stockman
Department of Medicine
Phans
Ishy Department of Medicine and Surgery
Department of Veterans Benefits
N.J
Baltimore
Four Nazi supporters held over Greensboro firebomb plot
Four of six American Nazi supporters tied to a planned napalm like attack in Greensboro were moved to Buncombe County jail for a federal hearing. Indictments accuse Raeford Caudle James Talbert and brothers Joseph and Roger Pierce of conspiracy to detonate hazardous devices downtown. Frank Braswell and Patsy Braswell were also arrested in Asheville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
N.C
UPI
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
Buncombe County
Raeford M. Caudle
James Christopher Talbert
Joseph Gorrell Pierce
Roger Allen Pierce
Caudle
Frank Lee Braswell
Patsy Keeter Braswell
Braswell
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Nazi Party
Garrell Pierce
Philadelphia woman wins 1.5 million settlement in truck crash case
A Philadelphia widow, Carole Kaplan, wins 1.5 million from Perdue Farms after her husband Ronald Kaplan was killed by a delivery truck on the New Jersey Turnpike on January 25, 1980. The suit, brought in U S District Court in Philadelphia, settled out of court. Her attorney Jerome Richter planned to use a 1978 Perdue radio ad featuring Frank Perdue about fast trucks and drivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
UPI
Perdue Farms Inc
New Jersey Turnpike
Carole
U.S. District Court
Kaplan
Jerome Richter
Richter
Perdue
Frank Perdue
Plant Faces Toxic Chemical Concerns and Worker Suspensions
Local residents express concern over toxic chemicals at the plant as the company suspends four workers amid the dispute. Workers allege illegal dumping of toxic material in the area, prompting scrutiny by authorities and calls for an investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hooker Chemical
Burlington
N.J
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Comer, Pa
Ua & Auction
Joe
Airwick
Medford's
Redford's
Ndw
LEN‘ Bausch & Lomt
Stephen F. Henr
Albert A. Wei
Optometrists
Booth's Corner
Farmers Market Foulh & Naamans Creek Rd
Sun
Thru Thors
Wrangler
RCM LemaTeek
J Back
Sealy Posturepedic
SEALY
Mattress
Seary
Willowbrook Shopping Center
Chichester Ave
Boothwyn, PA
Delcroft
Delmar Driv Folcroft
Walt
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