Turkey snub steals show at White House Thanksgiving
In the Rose Garden Reagan endures a wild outbreak as the 53 pound White House turkey R J flaps at him and bolts from the table. Turkeys from North Carolina State University selected for duty, R J was named Robust and Juicy by the farmer John Hendricks from Shelby NC. The White House will keep the birds safe at Virginia netting farms for the rest of their lives.
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White House
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N.C
North Carolina State University
National Turkey Foundation
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Rose Garden
Soviet Union
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R.J
America
Virginia
Contingency contracts aid cocaine recovery in Denver clinic
Dr. Carol Atkinson at Addiction Research and Treatment Services uses three month contingency contracts to curb cocaine use. Clients must submit thrice weekly urine samples and money or other consequences are pledged to deter relapse. Contracts, crafted with university lawyers, aim to outweigh urge to use and may not be legally tested.
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Baltimore
Medical Licensing Board
Carol Atkinson
University of Colorado Medical School
Denver
Ms. Atkinson
Germany
Housewives strike for GNP inclusion of unpaid work
Striking housewives staged rallies in Los Angeles Finderplss and Tulsa to launch a petition drive urging that unpaid domestic labor be counted in gross national product. The one day action by Wages For House work Campaign aims to gain UN support in Nairobi next July and press for policies like welfare child care and equal pay. Participants say recognizing women’s work will shift political power and funding for social programs.
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Los Angeles
Finderplss
Tulsa
Okla
United Nations’ Conference On Women
Nairobi
Ruth Todasco
Margaret Prescod
GNP
Ms. Prescod
Norwalk
Donna Lee
Echo Park
Silverlake
Todasco
Phoebe Jones
Philadelphia
Ms. Jones
State Dept doublespeak award sparks teachers note
Detroit AP report on the 1984 Doublespeak Award given by the National Council of Teachers of English to the State Department for replacing killing with unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of life. Second place went to Vice President George Bush for linking liberals with Nicaraguan leftists. third to Caspar Weinberger for Lebanon remarks.
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U.S. State Department
National Council of Teachers of English
State Department
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William Lutz
Mutgers University
Lutz
George Bush
Walter Mondale
Caspar Weinberger
Lebanon
Weinberger
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