Heading For Late Afternoon Landing Shuttle Achieves 90% Of Objectives
Columbia headed home after a 54 hour, 83 orbits mission cut short by a fuel cell problem. NASA officials said they completed about 90 percent of flight objectives while aiming for a Rogers Dry Lake landing near Edwards Air Force Base.
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New Mexico
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Charges Dropped In Police Chase Case
A preliminary hearing in Blairsville dismissed the charge against John Pandullo a part time Saltsburg officer in the Sept. 15 incident involving gunfire at former Saltsburg police chief Russell Clifford. Magistrate Angelo Cravotta ruled no prima facie case for recklessly endangering another person. discrepancies in witness statements cited. Clifford testified his car was fired upon and shattered windows were reported though gunfire verification remained uncertain.
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Saltsbury
Angelo Cravotta
John Pandullo
Indiana County
Russell Clifford
Conemaugh Township
Clifford
Salt Street
Saltsburg
P.A
John Sokol
Jeffrey William Piper
Pandullo
Piper
Indiana
Slybac Communications Center
Wayne Kablack
Commonwealth
Cravetta
Reagan Visits Houston Center Amid Space Mission Pride
President Reagan toured NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, hailing the Columbia shuttle mission though its schedule was trimmed. He urged astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly to consider a light trip to California, while reaffirming no tax hikes and planning a Texas turkey hunt with Baker's leased ranch. A Republican dinner honored Baker and Texas officials as Bush sent a message of good luck.
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Engle
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Columbia
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NASA
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Christopher Kraft Jr
Johnston Speace Center
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Washington
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California
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Richard H. Truly
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Texas
George Bush
Donor Found For Young Pittsburgh Patient Transplant Soon
A two and a half year old girl in a Pittsburgh hospital facing a deadly liver disease is expected to receive a liver transplant this weekend. The search for a donor comes as doctors proceed with major surgery to save the child.
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Pittsburgh
Defiance marks budget battle with GOP pressure in Senate
Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee push for a binding vote next week on a 1984 balanced budget plan. The plan calls for 48 billion in tax hikes and 39 billion in benefit cuts, doubling Reagan's proposed defense cuts. Domenici leads the alternative with hopes of a one vote decision, while House Republicans threaten cuts to avert a veto on an omnibus stopgap bill. In Manila, Bank of the Philippine Islands workers protest with painted beards to demand holiday pay and benefits.
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Senate Budget Committee
Reagan
Senate
Howard H. Baker Jr
Tennessee
Pete Y. Domenici
R-N.m
Domenici
GOP
House
Robert H. Michel
Illinois
House Appropriations Committee
Michel
J. Bennett Johnston
D-La
Manila
Philippines
Bank of the Philippine Islands
Times-Journal of Manila
Obituaries for Gladys Bence Russell Hickok and William Plahs
Obituaries list Gladys Bence Short 68 Indiana Road 3. Russell A. Hickok 70 Hillsdale. William E. Plahs 56 Saltsburg Road 2 Loyallhanna Township. Details unspecified.
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Hickok
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Hillsdale
PLAHS
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Saltsburg
Loyalhanna Township
Rickover Retired From Active Duty After 90-Year Navy Run
Adm Hyman G Rickover 81, longest serving active duty officer, will not have his Navy status renewed next year as the Reagan administration offers him a White House post as presidential adviser on civilian uses of atomic energy The move aims for an orderly transition to a successor with no successor yet named and Rickover has not decided whether to accept the new role.
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Reagan
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John Lehman
Lehman
Congress
Lancashire 25 mine closed by Inland Steel over productivity
Inland Steel Corp indefinitely closes the Lancashire 25 mine and cleaning plant near Bakerton Cambria County effective midnight Friday. About 400 miners lose jobs though a reopen remains possible if an economical plan is agreed. broader steel downturn and excess metallurgical coal capacity cited. B&T will keep 1,100 miners employed at other Cambria mines and proceed with Tanoma mine development for Pohang Iron & Steel.
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