Missile incident near Santa Barbara raises questions
Details remain sketchy as officials confirm a high altitude SR-71 encounter over international airspace near Korea. Pentagon notes no injuries and a routine mission while cautioning on possible North Korea origin. White House and State Department weigh potential responses as Meese recalls briefing with Weinberger. Officers link ERA anniversary protest outside the White House.
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Calif
White House
Larry Speakes
U.S
Pentagon
South Korean
International
North Korea
State Department
Rush Taylor
Demilitarized Zone
Taylor
ERA missionaries preaching in Utah
ERA missionaries from NOW and Mormons for ERA visit Salt Lake City neighborhoods to educate and win support for the ERA. Volunteers circulate petitions to President Reagan and sign postcards to Kimball while church leaders defend the church stance. The effort faces strong Utah opposition but expands to Idaho Hawaii and possibly California.
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Associated Press
Salt Lake City
Utah
Becky Fenstermaker
National Organization For Women's Era
Sonia Johnson
ERA
NOW
U.S. Justice Department
Virginia
Florida
Missouri
Reagan
Kimball
Fenstermaker
Jerry Cahill
Idaho
Hawaii
California
Angolan Troops Slow South Africa Invasion
Angolan official Angop dispatch from Luanda says aggression slows the South African incursion into Angola as a discreet withdrawal is implied. Civilian airports near South West Africa reopen after raids, while PM Botha frames the operation as a two pronged follow up against SWAPO bases and insurgents.
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Portugal
Angola
Angop
Luanda
South-West Africa
South Africa
P.W. Botha
Tion
Botha
House of Assembly
SWAPO
Census report notes slow income gains amid 1980 recession
The Census Bureau links spring 1980 recession to lower earnings growth. Full time workers saw median weekly earnings rise from 261 to 285 dollars Aug 1980 to July 1981, near 9.7 percent inflation. Family earnings climbed from 399 to 431 dollars, about 8 percent, with white married couples earning substantially more than Black and Hispanic families.
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Census Bureau
The
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Statistics Bureau
Texas Growth and Govs Wealth Highlight 1980s Texas party
Article notes Texas politics and wealth with former governor John Connally hosting a 1980 ranch party for GOP supporters. About 200 private planes, many jets, visited the Connally spread for a daylong barbecue amid national politics. Includes biographical details of a Texan author with Baylor roots and Washington life.
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John Connally
Texas
Connally
Washington
Baylor University
Bill
George Washington University
Texas Extremes Shape Nor therners View From exile
A Texas native who has spent years away discusses the state’s extremes from poverty in The Valley to oil wealth and technology. She says returning reveals relaxed attitudes, shared sociability, and a populist bent, contrasting Texan hospitality with East Coast professionalism and North’s civility.
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East
Texas Gulf
New York
Lone Star Cafe
Dallas
Chicago
Griffith
Antler Farmer Reopens School By Offering Land And Moves
In Antler North Dakota 72 year old Harley Bud Kissner offered three 9 acre and three 5 acre plots to families with school age children to settle in. The Antler Public School plans to reopen with 34 students this year after the board approved Kissners plan. Meanwhile in New Orleans NAACP criticizes a consent decree ending a federal suit over integration stating it lacks penalties and mergers and sets no enforceable remedies.
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Antler
N.D
Harley
Bud” Kissner
Kissner
North Dakota
Arlene Watland
New Orleans
Louisiana
NAACP
Justice Department
David Treen
Thunderstorms Sweep Across Texas With Warm Temps
Thundershowers roaming the state Wednesday were forecast to continue today with warm temperatures. Forecasters expect storms across most areas except the Panhandle. Scattered storms stretched from San Angelo to Midland and toward the northeast, with Rio Grande Valley showers and dashes of activity in Southwest Texas and the eastern Panhandle. Temperatures ranged from the 80s in the Panhandle and Gulf Coast to above 100 in North Texas, with 84 at Dalhart and 101 at Childress.
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Texas
San Angelo
Midland
Rio Grande Valley
Gulf Coast
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