GOP unity undercuts Democrats on Reagan budget cuts
Washington AP reports Senate Republicans stand united behind Reagan budget cuts despite Democratic attempts to restore funds. Debate resumes Monday with an amendment by Sen. Riegle to restore 900 million for 1962 Social Security minimum benefits. Reagan seeks 2.8 billion in 1981 cuts, 36.4 billion in 1982, 47.7 billion for 1989.
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Reagan
Congress
Donald W. Riegle Jr
D-Mich
Bouse
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mast
Africa
Asia
Hation
Kennedy
Sen
Bob Dole
R-Kan
Dole
Maryland probes work-release program amid inmate indictments
Gov. Hughes signals staff could be ousted after a police probe into supervision of inmates in work-release and college study programs. Indictments allege 28 inmates ran a narcotics ring, involved in robbery, rape and murder while furloughed. Eighteen were arrested in Baltimore after surveillance. Brockbridge Jail inmates traveled daily to Baltimore for work near the penitentiary or classes. Hughes ordered a wide open investigation and Brockbridge locked down as work-release ends.
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Annapolis
Harry Hughes
Maryland
Hughes
Baltimore
Brockbridge Correctional Institution
Jessup
Maryland Penitentiary
Public Safety and Corrections
Gordon C. Kamka
Edwin Goodwin
Brockbridge
Polish unions bargain with government near strike deadline
In Warsaw negotiators from Poland's government and the Solidarity union met amid Warsaw Pact maneuvers in an effort to avert a general strike Solidarity leaders Lech Walesa and Mieczyslaw Rakowski discussed relief for farmers and activists beaten in Bydgoszcz 140 miles northwest of Warsaw The union seeks the firing of three officials it holds responsible for the beatings and a settlement appeared possible as talks continued late into the night
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Warsaw
Poland
Solidarity Independent Trade Union
National Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Miecsytlaw Rakowski
Bydgoszcz
Walesa
Solidarity
Hostage rescue stalls as hijackers bargain stance grows
In Nicaragua, efforts to free nine hostages including eight Americans aboard a TAN-SAHSA Boeing 727 stall as Honduras weighs a bargaining position. Five hijackers, linked to a Salvadoran guerrilla group, seized the jet and forced it to Sandino Airport. After ground actions, 38 passengers were freed, with 24 moved to Tegucigalpa. The hijackers demand the release of a Salvadoran leader and 15 others jailed in Honduras.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Honduras
Sandino
Tegucigalpa
Five Still Missing After Cocoa Beach Condo Collapse
Rescue teams labored through concrete slabs and twisted metal seeking five missing workers after a five story condo construction collapsed near Cocoa Beach. Ten people died and several were injured as crews used jackhammers and hands to clear debris. Fire Chief Robert Walker said the missing were unlikely to be alive, while survivors blamed a rushed construction schedule for insufficient concrete curing.
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Fila
Robert Walker
Lucille
Cocos Beach
Enone
Senate slams Hughes fiscal package amid education aid clash
In Annapolis on a Friday marked by Gov. Barry Hughes's mounting troubles over the corrections system, the Senate scuttled his plan for seven million dollars more state aid to religious schools and 1.9 million for community colleges. The administration offered little floor support as Majority Leader Rosalie Abrams watched passively, and the chamber also failed to amend the Fiscal 1982 budget for the prison pre-release program.
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Barry Hughes
Senate
Hughes
Litte
Rosalie Abrams
D-Bak
You Did It News Post Columnist Praise
News Post column highlights Francis W Boab Jr praising Grarson B Haller Jr for long service to Boy Scout programs. Other views note Dottie Lewin endorses At Use of the Wind for children and David Berebeck critiques foreign policy focus on El Salvador. Murray Obermen answers sports queries.
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Hemull
Frederick Fare — Newy Pont Cosmet
Ethel Loeb
Ares
Maryland Senate weighs redrawing Sixth District boundaries
A Maryland Senate panel outlined five redistricting plans to adjust the states eight congressional districts after the 1980 census. Western Maryland and Howard County show the strongest population growth, shrinking the Sixth District westward and southward to comply with one person per vote. Baltimore City loses the most residents, while most plans keep representation intact by altering district lines.
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Washington
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Carroll
Allegany
Garrett Counties
Montgomery
Baltimore County
Supreme Court
Exchange students gain insight on America through YFU program
Frederick County hosts two YFU students Annemie Van der Mieren of Belgium and Bradley Deacon of Australia as the Youth for Understanding exchange program expands cross cultural learning. An international pair share daily life with local families while meeting health, academic, and language criteria. Bradley notes Australian slang can cause misinterpretations while Annemie highlights language as her passion amid siblings who teach English in Belgium.
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American Field Service
Youth For Understanding
Frederick County
Annemie van der Mieren
Belgium
Gov. Thomas Johnson High School
Bradley Deacon
Australia
Walkersville High
VFU
Bradley
United States
Annemie
Sea
Anneme
Miners Riot Over Pact As UMW Strike Rages Across States
United Mine Workers members in five states burn copies of the tentative contract as union leaders face discontent during the first day of a strike. Sam Church, UMW president, tours coalfields to win backing, facing pickets calling him a sellout. No violence reported though roving pickets appear at non union mines. a ratification vote is scheduled for Tuesday.
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UMW
Sam Church
Rank and
Sam
Wheeling
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Kentucky
West Virginia
West Virginia- Kentucky
Midwest
Indiana
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Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Weather outlook with increasing clouds and light showers
Tonight expects lows in the upper 30s to near 40 with minimal precip. Sunday brings warmer highs in the upper 40s to low 50s as clouds thicken and a small chance of showers remains. Southerly winds around 10 mph.
Three gunned down in MontCo robberies
In White Oak and Germantown, robbers struck two stores in separate incidents. At Grand Union on New Hampshire Avenue a manager, Robert D Lamp, was killed during a floor-employeeing demand. In Germantown the 11008 block block store robbers killed two guards, with the assistant manager wounded. Police pursue suspects and linkages between the two cases remain unclear.
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Capitel Beltway
Robert D Lamp
New Freedom
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Rastly
W Bell and Company
Gonery
Philp
Carl Metzo
Germantows
Wycaton
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Mepager
Whe Als
Guomet
Carver
Re and Company
Metz
Guare da
Wayne Myers
Lo Horse
Avenue Wheater
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