Jobless aid cuts threaten 339,000 as program expires
Washington reports the federal unemployment benefits for 339,000 people will end this week, with a House subcommittee backing a three month extension. President Reagan argues the program is unnecessary amid a improving economy and job training options. Only West Virginia and Alaska remain in extended benefits, while changes in 1981 reduced eligibility for others.
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Congress
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Jobless aid shrinkage cited in CBPP report
A Center on Budget and Policy Priorities study notes the drop in unemployment benefits as a third tier program expired this week. It highlights 5.3 million without benefits in the latest month, compared with 5.9 million at the 1982 recession low, amid overall cuts in jobs programs during early Reagan years.
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Center On Budget and Policy Priorities
Congress
Whiz kids celebrate Social Security's 50th anniversary at UNM
Four surviving New Deal era figures gathered at the University of New Mexico to mark five decades of Social Security. Thomas Eliot Wilbur Cohen Robert Myers and Eveline Burns recalled the act's origins, its expansion to include spouses and survivors, and defended its future amid critics.
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Social Security
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Columbia University
Cohen
University of Texas
Washington
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Congress
Washington University
Canadian air base crash kills ten in Edmonton formation
Two Hercules C 130 planes colliding during a 61st anniversary flyover at Namao near Edmonton crashed into a warehouse. Ten crew members died including a U S exchange pilot Capt Connie B Register Jr of El Paso Texas. Names of other victims withheld pending relatives’ notification.
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U.S
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Namao
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Winnipeg
Washington
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Pentagon
Connie B. Register Jr
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Texas
Shuttle countdown test clears for Discovery flight
A rehearsal countdown completed for the April 12 launch of space shuttle Discovery with a seven person crew including Sen. Jake Garn aboard for the final two hours. NASA said liftoff simulated at 8 a.m. EST as the crew prepared to deploy two commercial satellites, run medical experiments, and operate a drug processing unit during a five day mission. Garn, a Utah Republican, serves as congressional observer and chairs an appropriations subcommittee overseeing NASA funding. Other crew members include Karol Bobko, Donald Williams, Margaret Rhea Seddon, David Griggs, Jeffrey Hoffman, and Charles Walker.
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Reagan recalls assassination attempt on fourth anniversary
In a Camp David radio address Reagan thanks the heroes who saved him and the medical team at George Washington University Hospital. He cites Special Agents Tim McCarthy Jerry Parr Police Officer Thomas Delahanty and Al Antonucci, and remembers Jim Brady and Al Antonucci who died last May.
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Freighter Sunk to Create Reef Off Fort Lauderdale
An errant Venezuelan freighter named Mercedes I was blown up with eight 45 pound charges of TNT and sank in about 12 minutes as hundreds watched from boats. The 190 foot ship had been beached for months behind Mollie Wilmot's Fort Lauderdale home and was purchased by Broward County for reef use, after a storm pushed it onto the yard.
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Broward County
Steve Somerville
Fort Lauderdale Beach
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