Dukakis suggests drug money fund school drug prevention
Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis urged Congress to divert money seized from drug dealers to finance a nationwide school based prevention program. He cited Massachusetts Governors Alliance Against Drugs as a model active in 200 of 365 communities, costing about $2 million or $5 per student. He proposed financing with roughly $100 million in annual seized assets.
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Massachusetts
Michael S. Dukakis
Congress
Dukakis
House Education and Labor Committee
Governors Alliance Against Drugs
Senate OKs Navy ports amid budget bill clash
The Senate approved a plan to build new Navy home ports as part of the defense bill, voting 69-34 against scrapping the proposal. The $141 million earmark would fund two ports in New York and Washington state, with more bases planned on Gulf and Pacific coasts while defense spending totals $295 billion.
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Washington
Senate
Pentagon
Reagan
New York
Washington State
Gulf
Pacific
Food prices to rise little from heat and drought
Washington AP report cites Ralph Parlett of the Agriculture Department saying retail food prices will average 2 to 3 percent higher than last year due to heat and drought. Poultry prices are not expected to rise more than 3 percent, even with the drought.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Ralph Parlett
Department
Economic Research Service
Soviet high wire couple defect to United States
Soviet tightrope pair Nikolai Nikolaski and Bertalina Cazakova, defectors from Buenos Aires, arrived in Miami with hopes for luck in America. The husband and wife have spent 10 years with the circus and were whisked away in an unmarked U.S. government vehicle after landing at Miami International Airport.
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Miami
Buenos Aires
America
U.S
Miami International
Nikolai Nikolaski
Cazakova
U.S. negotiators begin talks prep for 1986 summit
Seven member U S delegation led by Paul Nitze heads to Moscow to prep for a Reagan Gorbachev summit. The group will solicit Soviet reaction to the Star Wars proposal and seek substantive results ahead of Geneva talks.
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Reagan
Moscow
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
U.S
Max M. Kampelman
Pentagon
Richard N. Perle
Gorbachev
Eduard A. Shevardnadze
George P. Shultz
Geneva
Shevardnadze
Shultz
Paul H. Nitze
Edward Roway
Maynard Glitman
Ronald Lehman
Col
Robert Linhard
National Security Council
Kampelman
Perle
Aleksandr A Bessmertnykh
Congress May Limit U S Ties With Angola Amid Sanctions Push
Congress moves to curb American business in Angola as sanctions against white-ruled South Africa rise. Sen. Dennis DeConcini argues trading with Angola funds Cuban troops and Soviet hardware. Angola's oil ties with the United States involve Chevron Texaco Conoco and others amid a U S rebel support for Savimbi.
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Congress
South Africa
U.S
Angola
Pretoria
Iran
Nicaragua
Libya
Dennis DeConcini
D-Ariz
Senate
Reagan
United States
Chevron Corp
Cabinda
Texaco
Conoco
Carnation Seafoods
General Tire and Rubber Co
Commerce Department
Jonas Savimbi
Layaway Holds Extend to September First
A customer can hold their purchase with layaway until September 1, securing the item for later pickup. The policy confirms the deadline and applies to eligible goods.
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