Victims of Crime Hearings Rise on Capitol Hill
Hearings on Capitol Hill examine crime impact from victims’ viewpoint as President Reagan’s Task Force on Victims of Crime questions treatment, compensation, property return and protection. It will study elderly, poor, and disabled access and urge balanced reforms across public and private sectors.
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Capitol Hill
Reagan
Boston
San Francisco
Denver
St. Louis
Houston
Maryland
Lois Haight Herrington
U.S
Entitlement reform urged to curb rising federal spendin
The debate over the 1983 tax bill centers on a need to cut the runaway federal deficit. While the package adds about 20 billion in revenue, deficits could reach 150 billion next year and grow. Experts propose a single, comprehensive entitlement reform to bind spending, with sacrifice across the board to curb outlays and tame the automatic benefits programs.
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Congress
Lee
Reagan
Office of Management and Budget and
Congressional Budget Office
Sens
William Armstrong
Rudy Boschwitz
Pete Domenici
Ernest Hollings
Treasury
Women in the U S Navy and Army push for broad roles
The piece questions the purpose of the armed forces under Carter Reagan and discusses push for integrating women into combat roles, the Army’s shift to separate male and female training, pregnancy and child care policies on ships, and a call to return to defense main task of building a strong Navy to defend America.
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U.S
United States
Carter
Secretary of Defense
John “Watergate
Sirica
U.S. Navy
Army
Pentagon
Israel
U.S. Army
Douglas Haywood
Grayson
Navy
America
Copley News Service
Slave laborers built the Siberian pipeline in secrecy
Secret intelligence reports describe tens of thousands of Soviet prisoners and Vietnamese volunteers forced to toil from dawn to dusk in Siberia. European allies provide equipment, making them indirect participants in a widespread human rights crime. Kremlin officials suppress the brutal conditions from view, while postmarked letters from Vietnamese workers reach outside observers.
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Washington
Siberia
Siberian
Vietnam
Kremlin
Moscow Evening News
Soviet Union
Shadow Of Slavery In Soviet Vietnamese Labor Camps
Intelligence sources describe a vast system where Vietnamese youths are sent to Siberia to toil in harsh conditions for the Soviet pipeline project. Estimates suggest up to 100,000 victims, many children of families opposed to the Viet Cong, kept under tight control with minimal pay and brutal living standards. Families abroad fear for relatives as letters reveal desperation and a plea for help.
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State Department
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Human Rights Bureau
Pentagon
Lucette Lagnado
Soviet
Valog
Siberia
William Armstrong
R-Colp
Vietnam
Tooney
Beirut
Israel
Lebanon
CLA
PLO
Sali
Fragmented Notes on Fires, Astronauts and Pets From Various Regions
A scattered recap covers Maryland versus West Virginia fire records, a St Charles crowd watching a spider web prisoner escape, Fred Lowe the sword swallwer's fork accident and its recovery, Chilean hotel price wars, a list of nine new astronauts with Armstrong among them, Middletown library activity, a Baker Park pet show with Clyde the alligator and unusual pets, plus political and military snippets on Reagan's tax drive and MAC base activities.
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Ronald Reagan
Oval Office
Congress
California
Senate
Reagan
Air Force
Military Airair Command
Scott Air Force Base
Minis
MAC
United Feature
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St. Charles
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Fred Lowe
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Talco
Chile
Neil A. Armstrong
Elliot M. Lee Jr
Frank Borman
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Thomas P. Stafford
Edward H. White
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C. Burr Artz Library County Services
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Frederick County Humane Society
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