Jobless Rate Hits 8 Percent In October
AP reports the U S unemployment rate rose to 8 percent in October the highest in six years and 8 5 million workers were jobless the largest number since 1939 The figures show a weaker labor market with blacks at 16 7 percent while the administration forecasts only a gradual decline in 1982 and warns against quick fixes
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Merrill Hartson
Washington
Labor Department
Department
Reagan
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Reagan Administration
Janet L. Norwood
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Congressional Joint Economic Committee
Norwood
White House
Larry Speakes
Speakes
Council of Economic Advisers
Italian plan will hold up Pisa's tower
Rome AP report says Italy will spend 15 billion lire about 12 million to stabilize the Leaning Tower of Pisa over four years. An underground water pump will maintain pressure, with pipes around the tower and cathedral to prevent further tilt as scientists warn it could topple in decades.
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Robert McCartney
Associated Press
Rome
Pisa
Giuseppe Toniolo
Italian Senate
Livio Trevisan
University of Pisa
Toniolo
United Way under challenge from denied charities
About 150 charities gather to contest United Way influence over workplace access and funding. Organizers call the umbrella fund drive a monopoly akin to OPEC, referencing exclusion from participation. The conference, organized by the Black United Fund and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, targets the $1 billion raised annually.
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Washington
United Way
OPEC
The
Black United Fund
National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy
Russian visits his hometown namesake city Odessa tale
Paul Voronaeff, now an Indianapolis resident and American citizen, spoke at Temple Baptist Church about his birth in Odessa Russia and life across multiple countries. He recalled living in Odessa, Russia for 14 years before World War II, and his arrest by Soviet secret police while at the University of Moscow.
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Voronaeff
Odessa
Indianapolis
Ind
Temple Baptist Church
Texas
Evangelist
Russia
America
San Francisco
Turkey
Bulgaria
University of Moscow
Class action seeks punitive damages over IUD injuries
More than 1,500 women join a nationwide class action against A H Robins Co and others over the Calkon Shield IUD. Judge Spencer Williams sets March 15 trial date as plaintiffs seek over 2.3 billion in punitive damages and more than 500 million in compensatory awards for uterine injuries, infections, pregnancies, and fetal damages from the device.
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Associated Press
SAN Francisco
Spencer Williams
A.H. Robins Co
Robins
Hugh Davis
Irwin Lerner
U.S
Soviet sub incident tests Nordic peace talks
The grounding of Soviet submarine 137 outside Sweden tests Moscow's peacemaking credibility in Scandinavia. Danish, Swedish, and Finnish observers react. Sweden hints the sub may have carried nuclear warheads, raising Nordic fears of nuclear weapons on Baltic shores.
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William C. Mann
Associated Press
Copenhagen
Denmark
Soviet Union
Scandinavia
Moscow
Communist Party
Sweden
Baltic
Sea of Peace
Thorbjorn Falldin
Cmdr
Pyotr Gushin
Finland
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