Live Aid concert clashes with Jehovah's Witness convention
In Philadelphia 1985 Live Aid drew 90,000 at JFK Stadium while Jehovah's Witnesses plan a 50,000 attendee regional convention at nearby Veterans Stadium. Organizers vow to avoid repeat traffic chaos from 1983 as city officials coordinate with transit authorities to ease potential conflicts and dispatch extra crowd control.
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Jfk Stadium
Jehovah's Witnesses
Veterans Stadium
Jehovah's Witness
Robert D. Neiman
Phoenixville
London
Carl Ridgeway
Atco
N.J
Pennsylvania
Ridgeway
Palm Beach mocked as a police state in Doonesbury satire
Palm Beach mayor and officials condemned Gerry Trudeau's Doonesbury focus on a city fingerprinting law for workers. The strip compares Palm Beach ID rules to Pretoria apartheid, while critics defend the program as protection and others defend satire. The comic also lampoons homelessness and a previous Sinatra set.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Frank Sinatra
Doonesbury
Gerry Trudeau
Pretoria
Garry Trudeau
Nancy Simmons Douthit
Simmons Mattress
James K. Green
West Palm Beach
Green
Chamber of Commerce
Jesse Newman
Newman
Trudeau
Lacey Davenport
Sinatra
Hagerstown
Mid
Cressier’s
Martinsburg
W.va
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 27
Cressler’s
George Miller
House passes water bill expanding drinking water safeguards
In Washington, the House approved a Safe Drinking Water Act amendment mandating EPA standards for about 66 contaminants and proposing a federal state program to protect underground water sources. Differences with the Senate proposal will be resolved in a conference committee.
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Washington
House
Environmental Protection Agency
Senate
EPA
U.S. Public Health Service
Lee Thomas
Congress
Edward Madigan
R-Il
Reid Wilson
U.S
Public Interest Research Group
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Joel Ralph
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Delphia
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Neiman
Jfk
Ralphania
the News
Frederick, Md
BSB
South Africa
Yvelyne “Deedy
Marix
Cressier's
Sterling
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