Shoplifting cited as substantial problem by area merchants
Frederick County stores report shoplifting as a significant and costly issue. Sears and McCrory's managers note daily incidents despite security measures, while prosecutors push charges against many offenders. Local officials cite rising arrests in the Washington area and emphasize difficulties in tracking totals.
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Frederick County
Dave Brooks
Sears
Frederick
Kathy Bonney
McCrory‘s
North Market Street
Robert Boehmer
Janice Ambrose
Washington
Board of Trade
Richard J. Ashton
Frederick City
Ashton
Shopkeeper fights shoplifting with own undercover effort
Hankins, store manager, reports losses totaling about 1200 in stolen goods with more unobserved theft. He notes shoplifters vary in age and race, often from low income backgrounds, and credits his own policing and an undercover accomplice for catching culprits. Cashiers now handle cigarette thefts. most thefts occur month end as welfare funds run dry.
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Hawkins
Securty
Hankins
Hantins
U S and Soviet Minds Narrow Gap on Nuclear Ceiling
Officials say the United States and the Soviet Union debated a new ceiling for strategic weapons with the USSR proposing 8000 while Washington favors 6000. Reagan has not replied to Gorbachev. Ron Lehman drafted the new formula as advisers discussed it at the Old Executive Building. Reagan is on vacation in California. Hardliners at the Pentagon oppose the consensus but it may be presented in Geneva later this month.
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United States
Gorbachev
Reagan
Ron Lehman
U.S
State Department
Pentagon
California
Geneva
India files suit against Union Carbide in Bhopal disaster
The Indian government filed a suit in Bhopal charging Union Carbide with primary responsibility for the December 3 1984 toxic gas leak that killed more than two thousand and injured at least 200000. The government seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages and says the plant was dangerous and defective.
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New Delhe
India
Union Carbide
U.S
Bhopal
Bas
Ministry of Chemicals and Petrochemicals
New Delhi
Danbury
Conn
U.S. District Court
John Keenan
New York
United States
Martin Marietta to Launch Private Satellite for FedEx
Bethesda, Md. AP Martin Marietta will launch a private Titan 3 rocket carrying the Expresstar satellite for Federal Express in 1989 from Cape Canaveral. FedEx has deposited 100000 to reserve space and may option a second satellite in 19. The deal marks a shift after Reagan's Aug 15 decision to remove most commercial payloads from the shuttle.
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Bethesda
Marietta
Federal Express
Air Force
Cape Canaveral
Martin Marietta
Titan
General Dynamics
Reagan
Protester’s trespass charge dropped in Byron office protest
Elizabeth Yvonne Small, 42, of Taneytown, charged with trespassing at U.S. Rep Beverly Byron’s Frederick office over aid to the Contras, had the charge dropped after the complainant declined to proceed. Burkett’s case continues for digging a grave at Byron’s Frederick home. James M. Small also faced arrest for August trespass.
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Byron
Matt Kempner
News-Post
Beverly Byron
Frederick
Elizabeth Yvonne Small
Taneytown
Ed Luke
Ms. Small
Robert C. Burkett
Burkett
James M. Small
Illiteracy Fight Grows in Frederick County Literacy Council
The Literacy Council of Frederick County tackles widespread illiteracy with the Project Literacy program. Ann Hall Marshall cites 19 to 27 million non readers plus 35 million marginal readers, detailing concealment methods and local dropout figures. Ramsburg notes 390 expected enrollees in adult basic education and 50 in English for speakers of other languages. The effort aims to boost employability, reduce welfare dependency, and break the generational cycle, with community support and walk in registrations at 15 county locations beginning Sept 15.
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Ann Hall Marshall
American Broadcasting Co
Public Broadcasting Service
America
Rockville
Marshall
Maryland
Richard Adamsburg
Ramsburg
Literacy Council
Seligmann
Hijackers seize Pan Am jet in Cyprus stand off
Gunmen dressed as security guards hijack Pan Am Flight 73 after it lands in Cyprus from Bombay en route to West Germany. At least two baggage loaders wounded, one critical. Pakistani army surrounds the aircraft as officials assess demands and potential crew negotiations.
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Libya
Tripoli
Nicosia
Muammar Gaddafi
Bombay
West Germany
Mirza
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