Widowers Win Right to Widow's Benefits Law Ruling
A three judge federal panel ruled widowers have the same Social Security survivor benefits as widows. The decision could extend eligibility for up to 400000 men nationwide and may cost the government up to 333 million dollars in the first year. The ruling rejects a prior requirement that a widower must have provided half of his wife’s support.
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New York
Asst
U.S. Atty
Pamela McGuire
U.S. Supreme Court
Leon Goldfarb
Queens
U.S. Signal Corps
Goldfarb
Hannah
Washington
New Jersey
Ohio
Florida
Maryland
Banker's Wife Freed Without Cash Ransom
Mrs. George J. Helein, 68, wife of South Side National Bank president, was abducted by two men posing as deliverymen. They held her in a box in a van and demanded $300,000 in unmarked bills. Worried for her health, the captors freed her in an alley. she signaled a patrolman and was taken to a police station. Police and FBI hunted the suspects. Gloria Swanson, 76, criticizes modern life while praising being vertical, in a Miami interview.
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ST. Louis
George J. Helein
South Side National Bank
Miami
Fla
Gloria Swanson
FAA Approves Lambert Study Phase Two Plans
Washington AP reports the FAA approved the second phase of the Lambert St. Louis International Airport master plan study. The project, funded about two thirds by the FAA and the rest by two local groups, aims to detail engineering and financial plans through 1995, following a Phase I finding the airport could be expanded and modernized to serve the St. Louis area through 1995.
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Washington
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport
Federal Aviation Administration
Sons
Stuart Symington
Thomas JF. Eagleton
FAA
St. Louis
Feminists Too Demanding Speakers Say at Conference
In Mexico City Imelda Marcos and Jihan Sadat urged balance in women s rights, arguing equality should be partnership not revenge or antagonism. They cautioned against extremism and urged harmony in families and society while progressive voices push for rights at the UN conference with thousands in attendance.
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Mexico City
Imelda Marcos
Philippines
Jihan Sadat
Egypt
United States
Marcos
Master Spy Sought For NY Bombings
FBI seeks Puerto Rican born spy and explosives expert Wili berto Ojeda Rios 42 leader of FALN for January Fraunce's Tavern blast in Manhattan and two Chicago explosions. Described as master of disguises and former jazz trumpet player, Rios fled after jumping bail in 1970 for hotel bombings in Puerto Rico.
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New York
Fraunce
Financial District
Chicago
FBI
Wiliberto Ojeda Rios
FALN
Rios
Puerto Rico
Victoria Fyodorova seeks to bring mother to US after marriage
Victoria Fyodorova says she wants her mother from Russia to join her in America to meet her new husband, Pan American pilot Fred Polly. She has Soviet blessing for the marriage and is applying for both U.S. citizenship and a Soviet visa extension.
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Miss Fyodorova
America
Jackson R. Tate
Orange Park
Fyodorova
Chey
U.S
Zaire Expels U S Ambassador Amid Kidnap Crisis
Zaire orders the United States ambassador to leave as efforts to reach three hostages—Carrie Hunter Kenneth Smith and Emilie Bergman—are hampered by eastern Zairean troop blockades. The expulsion follows government charges of CIA plots against President Mobutu and a government newspaper claim of the danger to Americans remaining in Zaire.
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United Nations
Tribune
U.N. Com Forence
the Tribune
United States
Kinshasa
Zaire
Dean R. Hinton
Washington
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Mobutu Sese Seko
Hinton
State Department
Mobutu
Elima
Salongo
Dar- es-Salaam
Tanzania
Carrie Jane Hunter
Atherton
Calif
Kenneth 8. Smith
Garden Grove
Emilie Bergman
Netherlands
Lake Tanganyika
U.S
Popular Revolution Party of the Congo
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Lambert
Valentina Tereshkova
Tereshkova
NY Bombings
Cuba
Cuban Directorate of Intelligence
Socialist Workers Party
San Juan
MIRA
Bronx
Muorzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional
Commonwealth
Lawrence Drug
Mr. Farmer
Mexico Lumber Co
Mexico
Victoria
Mother
Zoya Fyodorova
Tate
Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Siberia
Briggs & Stratton
H.P. Tiller
H.P
Rie
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