Audits target Jackson groups over federal grants
Federal auditors urge Operation PUSH Inc and PUSH for Excellence Inc to return nearly half of the four million dollars in federal grants and contracts. They found 726,972 spent contrary to laws and 1,000,000 in expenditures questionable across Education Labor Health and Human Services and Commerce projects dating back to 1978.
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Washington
Jesse Jackson
Operation Push Inc
Push For Excellence Inc
Education Department
Labor, Health and Human Services
Commerce Departments
John Bustamante
Inspector General
Education
T.H. Bell
Two brothers pose as workers steal fines in NYC affair
Two brothers posing as Parking Violations Bureau employees stole fines in New York City for a year and a half before being exposed. Authorities charged them, and the case highlights alleged internal theft within city agencies.
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New York City
Blind sailor completes 2225 mile solo West to Hawaii
Hank Dekker, 48, nearly blind at 98 percent, sailed a 25 foot sloop The Dark Star from San Francisco to Honolulu in 25 days becoming the first blindman to solo the West Coast to Hawaii. He navigated mostly by sun times and dead reckoning after his talking navigation system failed.
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Vnited Press International
Hank Dekker
Honolulu
Eve Mitchell
Ala Wai
San Francisco
Hawaii
UPI
Dekker
Coast Guard
Blind
San Francisco Bay
Honduran rebels trained in Cuba Nicaragua deserters claim
Deserters tell news conference that about 2000 Hondurans were trained in Cuba and Nicaragua for insurgency. One recruited in 1981 says training continued in Nicaragua and Cuba, with return to Honduras in 1982. Deserters warn of guerrillas scattered nationwide with radios and weapons. U.S. troops to join joint maneuvers as Reagan era tensions rise. A rights group cites a clandestine gravesite near San Alejo amid disappearances allegations against Suazo Cordova regime.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
UPI
Cuba
Nicaragua
Mario Izaguirre Rodriguez
Teofilo Martinez
Juticalpa
Managua
Pinar del Rio
Jose Nicolas Castro
Roberto Vasquez Orel- Janata
United States
U.S
Reagan
el Salvador
Central America
San Alejo
Roberto Suazo Cordova
Contaminant Canisters Wash Ashore Off Orange County
Eleven containers possibly holding acid pollutants drifted onto a 40 mile Orange County coastline prompting a 16 mile beach closure. After a prior day’s finds that triggered evacuations of 30 oceanfront mobile homes officials say none ruptured and no injuries were reported. Analysts identified one canister as containing hydrochloric acid and investigators wondered about a deliberate shoreline dumping.
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San Clemente
Calif
UPI
Orange County
Bob Merryman
Mark Reinhold
Merryman
Enterprise
Santa Catalina Island
el Morro Cove
Soviet Union cracks down on traffic police corruption
Moscow reports indicate Andropov drives a broad anti corruption campaign replacing Valery Lukyanov with Viktor Piskarev as head of traffic police. Piskarev announced strict new fines from three to fifty rubles for offenses, with emphasis on drunk driving and zero leniency, amid Kremlin led discipline push.
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Moscow
Yuri V. Andropov
Valery V. Lukyanov
Viktor A. Piskarev
Kremlin
Communist Party
Pravda
Piskarev
Interior Ministry
Andropov
Leonid 1
Brezhnev
Nikolai Shchelokov
Vitaly Fédorchuk
KGB
Secret Online
Shehelokov
Hig
Kremlin An
Zamax panel rules for reintroduction with warning label
Washington AP The Arthritis Advisory Committee endorsed strong labeling for Zamax to allow re sale for severe and persistent pain. McNod Pharmaceuticals removed Zamax from the market on March 4 after reports of five deaths and over 1000 allergic reactions. The FDA will consider the proposal.
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Washington
Arthritis Advisory Committee
Food and Drug Administration
McNod Pharmaceuticals
Johnson & Johnson Co
FDA
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Taiwan
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Chinese Nationalist Party of Taiwan
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