World News Briefs Roundup Reflects Cold War Tensions
A concise European and global update covers Reagan urging free trade while resisting French calls to control the dollar, a U.S. embargo on Nicaragua, Yugoslav critique of U.S. policy, a Brussels car bomb injuring 12, Polish May Day clashes, and wide Spanish protests against Reagan’s Spain visit May 6-7.
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Bonn
West Germany
Reagan
America
U.S
Nicaragua
Congress
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Daniel Ortega
Central America
Brussels
Belgium
NATO
Europe
Poland
Madrid
Independence Plaza
Spain
Senate fights over Reagan budget amid Social Security fears
The Senate began reconciling Reagan's budget with a $170 billion deficit as Republicans warned that a Social Security amendment could derail the package. Senate Republican leader Robert Dole urged calm in the heated debate. Challenger’s scientists logged productive day aboard the lab, and space sickness concerns eased as the crew remained in good shape. Kentucky Derby field trimmed to 14 entries after Creme Fraiche skipped the Derby Trial, the smallest field since 1980.
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Washington
Senate
Reagan
Robert Dole
Cape Canaveral
Fila
Challenger
Orbiting Laboratory
Louisvile
Woody Stephens
Creme Fraiche
Churchill Downs
Genuine Risk
Illinois House committee rejects advisory salary board plan
Springfield report says lawmakers and judges would gain no wage-setting power under the rejected proposal. A separate Illinois Commerce Commission discussion envisions a central dispatch system to save customers up to 57 million dollars by sharing low cost electricity and boosting coal use. A Senate committee backs fathers’ injunctions to block late pregnancy abortions, while a panel stalls parental notification for birth control devices for youths.
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Springfield
House
Illinois Coal
Illinois Commerce Commission
ICC
Philip O’connor
Senate
Richton Park approves balanced 1985 budget
The Richton Park village board approved a balanced budget for fiscal year 1985-86 totaling 3,134,000 in expenditures against 3,153,611 in projected revenue. Village President Rudolph Banovich praised the plan as workable and noted department cuts were not applied across the board, aiming to preserve services.
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Richton Park
Rudolph Banovich
Cleanup work on Sexton landfill to begin May 6 near Richton Park
Richton Park area residents will see heavy equipment at the defunct Sexton landfill in unincorporated Cook County as cleanup starts May 6. Village Manager A Douglas Fenske says contractors will pump out water, use debris for fill, and berm materials from I 57 for cover while planning mutual oversight.
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Richton Park
Sexton
Cook County
Illinois Supreme Court
A. Douglas Fenske
Board of Trustees
Arthur A. Daniels
John Sexton Contractors
Oak Brook
Fenske
Community unity wins long legal fight to close Sexton landfill
In Richton Park, residents and officials fought a 10-year legal battle against the 84-acre Sexton landfill. After court rulings from Cook County and state courts, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the defeat in 1984. Costs exceeded 120000, with help from Cook County State's Attorney and local developers.
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Pete Reynolds
EPA
Lakewood
Richton Park
Cook County
Sexton
Supreme Court
Arthur Dunne
Illinois Supreme Court
Richard Daley
George “Bud” Arquilla
Royal Fabian
Lincoln Crossing- Columbia Homes
Rich Central lights project advances at District 227 meeting
Rich Township High School District 227 board members heard a proposal to install floodlights at Rich Central football field with a possible start this month and board approval later this month could place rights at Olympia Fields school by August. PTSA and Olympia Fields park district would contribute funds toward a 40,904 project financed by a 25,000 loan repaid over three years with donations and fund raising.
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Rich Township High School
Board of Education
Properties Committee
Rich Central High School
Olympia Fields
Central Ptsa
Olympia Fields Park
Central
Chuck Colin
PTSA
Rich South
Richton Park
Wayne O'Connor
Central Ptsa Rights Committee
John Berryman
Rich Central
Dotson freed again briefly after Supreme Court ruling
Gary Dotson, 28, of Country Club Hills, left Dixon Correctional Center with his family after the Illinois Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision, granting bond while awaiting permanent release. He thanked the judge and planned a quiet night with relatives as legal maneuvers continue surrounding the 1977 rape case later recanted by Cathleen Crowell Webb.
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Gary L. Taylor
Gary Dotson
Dotson
Country Club Hills
Dixon Correctional Center
Illinois Supreme Court
Warren Lupel
Barbara Dotson
Heritage Bank of Country Club
Richard L. Samuels
Dixon
Cathleen Crowell Webb
Homewood- Flossmoor High School
Samuels
Mrs. Webb
Gary
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Crestview Pool
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Jacob Wilhelm
Mike Voss
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Planning Commission
Cook County Zoning Board of Appeals
John Murphy
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
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