Editorial on the Government Printing Office budget and cuts
The piece notes Washington letters urging free Uncle Sam booklets on baby care gas mileage and pickles. It cites the GPO budget of 700 million dollars and a 220 million dollar bid for a new plant and argues for halting unnecessary pamphlets. It contends the GPO competes with private enterprise and could harm private sector if reduced.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Government
Congress
Reagan
Oval Office
GPO
Amazing tax dollars study on children and TV control
A U S Department of Health and Human Services report finds parents are more effective than networks in controlling what children watch on TV. The three year study questions the value of external pressure and highlights the home as the key arena for influencing child viewing.
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U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
Department
Love on a Greyhound Bus inspires stormy romance tale
A blizzard stranded a Trailways bus in Garden City where two passengers wed at the bus stop as a love story grew amid songs about Love on a Greyhound Bus. The groom later proved unfaithful, while trains and a minister recalled sheltering travelers in snowstorms and praising the Santa Fe Railroad. Would that make a good song title?
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Trailways
Garden City
Greyhound
Santa Fe
Telegram
Santa Fe Railroad
Court ruling grants conservative victory on women draft issue
The Supreme Court allows Congress to draft men but not women, framing the ruling as constitutional to distinguish by sex. The decision is seen as a setback for the women’s movement and a boost for traditional, motherhood-centered views, raising concern about future wars and expanded drafts.
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Supreme Court
White House
Senate
Congress
Strom Thurmond
Phyllis Schafly
Justice Renquist
Women’s
Deregulation Doom for Washington Lawyers
Art Buchwald reports in a satire on Reagan era policy, noting about 20,500 Washington lawyers fear deregulation will end their work as federal agencies shrink. Corporate avoidance of rules grows as Interior Secretary Watt shuts mining inspectors, EPA cases stall, and defense contracts become a survival path amid a shrinking legal market.
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Washington
D.C
Reagan
Congress
Masterman
Dollar fueled arms trail to Libyan terror camps
Washington analyst Jack Anderson outlines how American businessmen former CIA agents and military experts were recruited by Muammar Qaddafi risking loyalty for greed. He cites Jerome S Brower of Pomona California described by a Treasury memo as a licensed explosives manufacturer awaiting indictment.
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Washington
Edwin Wilson
Frank Terpil
CIA
Muammar Qaddafi
Dale van Atta
Jerome S. Brower
Pomona
Calif
Treasury Department
Brower
Explosive Industry Chief Ties to Arms Trade Scandal
The president of the International Society of Explosives Engineers faced allegations of supplying high explosives to terrorists at inflated prices and shipping them to Libya and Uganda with his associates teaching clients how to use the merchandise. Brower pleaded guilty, was fined 5000 dollars, and received four months of a five year term. The piece also highlights retired Brig Gen Joseph Cappucci, connected to Wilson, who warned against associates after a history of counterintelligence work and a personal bombing injury in 1975.
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International Society of Explosives Engineers
Libya
Uganda
Brower
Wilson
Terpil
Air Force
Joseph Cappucci
Air Force Office of Special Investigations
Defense Investigative Service
Cappucci
London Hilton
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Russell Senate
Washington, D.C
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Loorth
John
Doonesbury
Alec
Art Buchwald
America
Stockman
Department of Interior
Secretary of the Interior
Watt
Interior
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Pentagon
Jack Anderson
Kevin Mulcahy
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Springfield
Mass
Wilson-Terpil Gang
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