Budget standoff blocks Peabody endowment funds
Maryland lawmakers failed to wrap the budget over the Peabody Conservatory endowment, as House Speaker Mitchell insisted on $15 million cash by June 30 1991 while the Senate favored counting pledges. Lt Gov Steinberg blasting the cash demand as a sham, the impasse leaves Peabody and the state budget in limbo. The conference also resolved a Maryland University cut by splitting the $1.3 million reduction, praising overall progress toward a surplus.
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Peabody Conservatory
House
Senate Budget Conference Committee
Peabody
R. Clayton Mitchell Jr
Mitchell
Senate
Melvin Steinberg
Steinberg
University of Maryland
House of Delegates
Conference Committee
Pro Life King Suspended Over Abortion Law in Belgium
King Baudouin of Belgium steps aside as head of state after refusing to sign a bill legalizing abortion citing moral grounds. Prime Minister Martens signs the law and asks Parliament to restore the king. The abortion law takes effect Thursday in a predominantly Catholic Belgium with 10 million people. Ireland remains the only EC country without abortion legalization. Nixon Reports heart disturbance but not life threatening. He will recover at home in New Jersey for about two weeks.
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Brussels
Belgium
Baudouin
Wilfried Martens
Ireland
Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Cornell University Medical College
New York City
Saddle River
Johns Hopkins to test AZT on pregnant AIDS patients
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine will join a United States study in which HIV infected pregnant women receive the drug AZT to see if it prevents the virus from passing to their babies. Researchers plan to start within a year to assess transmission from mother to child. A doctor said the key question is whether AZT can stop in utero infection.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Lava Devastates Kalapana Hawaii as Eruption Builds
Lava from Kilauea incinerated one Kalapana home and threatened five more while authorities warned many structures could fall. Seventy-five residents ordered to evacuate, 125 homes in the coastal area told to be ready within 72 hours. Damages estimated at 20 million dollars.
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Kalapana
Hawaii
Kilauea
Hawaii Island
SOS Ignored as Fishing Boat Sinks Off Massachusetts
A 50-foot fishing boat on the freezing Massachusetts waters sent an SOS and laughed as it sank. Coast Guard initially treated the call as a hoax amid rising false distress alerts. Five days later the father and son were found missing, and a search confirmed the vessel lost.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Coast Guard
Three States Welcome MLK Day Movement
Wyoming and Idaho join the move toward national acceptance of a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday as three states remained holdouts. Lloyd Davis of the King Federal Holiday Commission said headway is evident and Arizona New Hampshire and Montana are unlikely to resist much longer.
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Wyoming
Idaho
Martin Luther King Jr
Lloyd Davis
King Federal Holiday Commission
Arizona
New Hampshire
Montana
Walkersville burglary probes theft on East Frederick Street
Maryland State Police investigate a March 30 burglary on East Frederick Street Walkersville where jewelry silver and camera equipment valued about 3000 were taken. Suspects entered through the basement. a possible suspect is named but no arrests yet and the public is asked to share information. A nearby Rowe Road Monrovia home was damaged by rocks with broken windows and harm to a garage door gutter and siding valued around 450.
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Maryland
East Frederick Street
Walkersville
K.D. Wantz
Tfe. Wantz
Rowe Road
Monrovia
Organic farming measure OK'd by Maryland lawmakers
Lawmakers sent most Frederick County and local delegation bills to Governor Schaefer with one exception a $150 000 capital improvement bond for Freder ick Historical Society still alive in conference committee The Senate approved an organic farming bill to certify products and promote farming through the Department of Agriculture The Senate also backed several local measures including a debt for the county detention center a 100 000 grant for the 4 H camp and 3 million for Carroll Creek projects Final approvals included a 2 million grant to Mount St Mary's College and other existing acts covering taxes benefits and commissions
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William Donald Schaefer
Nancy Kopp
D-Montgomery
Annapolis
Frederick County
General Assembly
Frederick
del. Thomas H. Hattery
D-4a
Senate
Department of Agriculture
House
Retired Lt Thomas D Evans Leaves Bethesda Police
Rockville Montgomery County Police Lt. Thomas D Evans 47 of Laytonsville commander of the Bethesda Investigative Section retired April 1 after 24 years service. Chief investigator in Bethesda for six years he was promoted to lieutenant in 1981. He and his wife Susan plan no immediate future plans.
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Montgomery County
Thomas D. Evans
Laytonsville
Bethesda
Evans
Donald Brooks
Susan
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