Congress Debates Missile and Weapon Budget Differences
Congress wrestles with major gaps on MX missile totals, Star Wars funding, chemical weapons, ASAT tests, and military retirement cuts. Senate and House clash over 1987 budgets, with conference likely to seek compromises between 40 and 50 missiles, 2.7 billion defense funding, and retiree protections.
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House
Pentagon
Reagan
Les Aspin
D-Wis
Armed Services Committee
Saints
NATO
Supreme Court bars public school classes in religious schools
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that public school teachers may not conduct classes in religiously affiliated schools, upholding church state separation. The decision, affecting Grand Rapids Michigan and New York City cases, bars use of federal funds for such shared time programs. The ruling challenges Reagan administration aims to expand aid and emphasizes maintaining constitutional boundaries between church and state.
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Supreme Court
Grand Rapids
Mich
New York City
William J Brenan
Reagan
Congress
Brennan
Atl
Tooms
New York
Iadastuncon
Thurgood Marshall
Harry A. Blackmun
Lewis F Powell
John Paul Stevens
Warren E Burger
July decision awaited in defamation suit over teacher firing
Jeanne Eckmann, 38, contends in a $25 million federal case that Hawthorne School Board defamed her by firing her as an eighth grade English teacher after she had a baby. She claims the pregnancy followed a rape or an affair cover story, and seeks vindication for civil rights violations.
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Rockford
Jeanne Eckmann
Hawthorne
Dedication planned for new section of Appalachian Trail
A dedication for a new 15 mile section of the Appalachian Trail will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday July 14 at Bears Den Rock near Bluemont Virginia. The event marks moving the trail off a road onto National Park Service land and back into the woods.
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Bluemont
Washington, D.C
National Park Service
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
Maryland Appalachian Trail Club
Maine
Georgia
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