Negotiators Agree to Superfund Renewal Plan
Washington AP reports congressional negotiators reached a compromise to renew the Superfund program with an 8.5 billion five year plan to boost cleanup, require 375 actioned sites by 1991, and extend to federal agency waste. Funding remains unsettled as lawmakers debate who will pay.
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Congress speeds surplus grain bill to aid drought regions
Lawmakers push fast tracked surplus grain aid for drought hit Southeast farmers. House Agriculture Committee chair Kika de la Garza and cross party lawmakers urge immediate action with Senate counterparts, proposing donated surplus feed grains or certificates, half price emergency feed, and up to 80 percent transport costs coverage.
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Senate
Capitol Hill
House
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Department
de la Garza
Northwestern ends police training at Traffic Institute
Northwestern University announced withdrawal from the State Department trained by the Traffic Institute amid claims several participants tied to Salvadoran death squads. President Arnold KR Weber cited risks to the academic mission and political nature of the program, as protests outside the Evanston campus intensified.
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Northwestern University
Arnold KR. Weber
Northwestern
Traffic Institute
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State Department
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Ariz. Weber
World War II mail finally delivered reunion letters reach veterans
Forty two years after writing to his sweetheart Raul Alvarez finally received the letter to his wife Terry Espinosa, delivered by the postmaster general. The tale started May 21 1944 when 235 letters from troops abroad were misplaced in Algeria and hidden in an attic. Postal authorities tracked senders, handed 26 letters to veterans, and staged a delivery ceremony with a luncheon for four writers.
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Raul Alvarez
Espinosa
United States
Algeria
Newport News
Raleigh
N.C
Veterans Administration
Walt Dropo
Boston Red Sox
Caleb Strong
Dropo
Postal Service
Robert Kirsch
North Huntington, Pa
Baby on Board signs blamed for car danger
New York AP report says yellow Baby on Board signs may obscure rear view and create a blind spot. Insurance Institute spokesman Harvey Seymour notes signs could distract drivers and raise accident risk. Institute urges placing signs in bottom rear corners to reduce hazard.
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New York
Insurance Information Institute
Harvey Seymour
The
Seymour
Institute
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