Wall Street Rallies as Dow Rebounds Amid Economic Cues
The Dow Jones climbed 36.06 points to 1874.19 on Friday, snapping a Monday drop. Volume rose to 141.2 million on the NYSE amid mixed signals of a sluggish economy and shifting futures activity. In Louisville, Ky, Baby Calvin's heart transplant proceeds strongly as his family keeps anonymity despite public attention from Baby Jesse’s earlier heart.
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Alan Ackerman
Herzfeld & Stern
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
Louisville
Calvin
California
Jesse
Gerald Cardin
Wendell Cardin
Glendale
Kentucky
Wendell
Patricia Cardin
Cardin
Baby Calvin
Kosair Children’s Hospital
Civil rights leader Dana Greeley dies at 77 in Boston
Rev Dana McLean Greeley, civil rights and anti war activist, dies at 77 after a three year cancer battle. He led Unitarian Universalist ministers in a 1965 Selma civil rights march and opposed the Vietnam War as a key figure in the Boston denomination. He was the last president of the American Unitarian Association and the first president of the Unitarian Universalist Association after the 1961 merger.
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Dana McLean Greeley
Unitarian Universalist Assn
Greeley
American Unitarian Assn
Unitarians
the Universalists
Unitarian Universalist
Selma
Ala
Scranton Man Receives Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart
Edmund McDermott, 32, of Scranton, was given a Jarvik-7 artificial heart at Presbyterian University Hospital after doctors could not wait for a human donor. The five hour operation began at 2 p.m. CDT, and he was listed in critical condition but deemed standard for early artificial heart recipients.
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Pittsburgh
Scranton
Presbyterian University Hospital
Edmund McDermott
David Lash
Tom Chakurda
McDermott
Chakurda
Panel trims weapons funding for defense program
A Senate subcommittee cut nearly 800 million from the Pentagon's advanced missile defense program, yet allows over 4 billion dollars for next year. The panel also froze funding for the mobile intercontinental Midgetman missile at current levels, halving the 1987 budget. Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces chaired by Senator John W. Warner completed work in a closed session.
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Armed Services Subcommittee
John W. Warner
R-Va
Tax bill survives largely intact in Senate on track for passage
The tax overhaul faces a Senate vote next week after lawmakers wrapped a week of debate. Packwood verband Dole say major amendments are unlikely as one change scuttled Unocal favored breaks. A proposed third bracket for the very wealthy remains the last major item.
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Senate
Bob Packwood
Packwood
R-Ore
Senate Finance Committee
Bob Dole
R-Kan
Union Oil Co
California
Unocal
Dole
Finance Committee
George J. Mitchell
Dmaine
Chicago honors Vietnam veterans with massive Welcome Home parade
Chicago drew an estimated 300000 spectators and 125000 veterans for a 41 hour Welcome Home parade. Gen William Westmoreland attended in dress uniform amid displays of legless veterans and heroic stories including Bob Wieland who wheeled and pulled himself along to raise money for the hungry.
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Jerry Kurz
William Westmoreland
U.S
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James Patridge
Tom Stack
Bob Wieland
Wieland
California
Washington, D.C
Clashes in Lebanon Kill 16 Amid Beirutsi Strife and Bekaa Fights
Rival militiamen battled house to house in a Bekaa Valley town as police reported 16 dead and 98 wounded with 14 kidnapped in Beirut’s Moslem sector. Fighting spread to refugee camps and in south Lebanon, Syrian backed forces clashed with Israeli aligned militiamen. Cardinal OConnor arrived to assess aid and meet leaders.
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Popular Liberation Army
South Lebanon
John O’connor
New York
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Mashgara
Syrian
Social Nationalist Party
Fundamen
Arab League
Hezbollah
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iran
Syria
Jordan
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Palestine
Iraq
Kuwait
Cyprus
Northeast Kansas Weather Forecast Summary
Regional forecast favors variable cloudiness today with a 90 degree high and evening storms possible. Tonight partly cloudy with a 40 percent shower chance and a low near 70. Sunday mostly sunny with highs near 89 and moderate winds. Overnight readings list a Friday high of 91 and a low of 60 with no precipitation.
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Nine Convicted in Major Colombo Mafia Racketeering Case
A federal jury in New York convicted Carmine Persico and eight associates of running the Colombo crime family in a wide scale labor racketeering scheme. The verdict centers on control of unions including the District Council of the Cement and Concrete Workers and extortion of construction firms. Sentencing set for August 12, with potential 20 year terms, while several co-defendants face related charges. Persico, 52, known as Junior or the Snake, led the operations.
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Carmine Persico
Colombo Crime Family
New York City
Colombo Group
District Council
Federal District Court
Persico
Colombo
U.S
Rudolph W. Giuliani
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US Dept of Commerce
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Manhattan
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