Reagan attacks Carter racism charge at campaign stop
Reagan rebuked Carter for opening in the South and for comments about the Ku Klux Klan as he spoke at the Michigan State Fair near Detroit. The exchange followed a Laxalt accusation that Reagan could not link the president to the Klan. Carter condemned Klansmen during a Tusсumbia Alabama Labor Day event.
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Nevada
Detroit
Jimmy Carter
Alabama
Ku Klux Klan
Carter
Tuscumbia
Ala
Lyn Nofziger
Nofziger
Encyclopedia Americana
Pulaski
Tenn
Knights of the
KKK
Metairie
Philadelphia
Miss
Partisan gridlock in a special session debate in Washington
Washington lawmakers trade barbs as Congress readies a post election session. Republicans chide Democrats for a perceived lame duck budget fight while Democrats clash over who bears political risk. Cannon fire includes toy ducks and pointed quips about deficits and policy.
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House
GOP
Thomas P
Tip’ O'Neill Jr
Bud Shuster
R-Pa
Shuster
Donald Democrat
Robert K. Dornan
O'Neill
Dornan
Los Angeles
Carey Peck
Gregory Peck
Syria and Libya Agree to Merge for Arab Defense
Syrian President Hafez Assad approved a merger with Libya after Col. Muammar Khadafy proposed uniting the two Arab states as a defense against Israel. Khadafy pledged action if Libyan people reject unity, while Syrian PM El Kassem attended the Tripoli anniversary rally with 50,000 others as Khadafy spoke.
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Syria
Hafez Assad
Libya
Israel
Assad
Col
Muammar Khadafy
Khadafy
Tripoli
Galilee
Abdel Rauf el Kassem
Six Die In Kansas Holiday Wrecks AP Report
Six people died in Labor Day weekend crashes in Kansas. Marian Lee Lee, 36, of Wichita, was struck by a truck driven by her husband while walking near her home. Wichita residents Jim Wood, 30, and others including William Foster, Ronald Carpenter, Gerald Leach, and Russell Miller perished in separate accidents across southeastern and central Kansas.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Wichita
Marian Lee Lee
Trffic
Gerald Leach
Fort Scott
Russell Miller
Olpe
Kan
Emporia
Soaring Meat Prices Hurt Family Budget
Widespread increases in meat prices hit grocery budgets last month, with August showing the second sharpest rise of the year. An Associated Press market basket survey tracked price changes across 13 cities, noting meat drove most increases. Center cut pork chops and frankfurters rose in many markets as hog prices surged, while overall meat contributed 39 percent of the month's increases.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Department of Agriculture
Omaha
Neb
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