Defense may be pared to seek budget balance
President Reagan plans to trim defense spending to help balance the 1984 federal budget. Key advisers debate how much to cut with Stockman denying a $20 billion reduction in 1983-84, while Weinberger says savings are possible without harming strategic needs. Meese says MX weapons won’t be cut and Reagan’s decision is due in two to four weeks.
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Jimmy Carter
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NYC agrees to provide shelter for homeless men
New York City and state officials signed a consent decree in state Supreme Court committing the city to provide clean safe shelter for every homeless man who seeks it. The decree sets occupancy limits at the Keener Building on Wards Island and requires intake centers at four city hospitals plus a transit location to direct men to the Men’s Shelter, while preserving city discretion over where men are housed.
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New York Times Service
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Edward Koch
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Port Authority
Robert M. Hayes
Judge transfer program cuts New York court backlog gains
The state chief judge ordered a drive to reduce criminal case backlogs. In 28 weeks this year felonies dispositions rose 19.9 percent from 1980, with 18,871 of 22,765 dispositions guilty verdicts or pleas. In NYC indictments up 21 percent and 9,704 convictions. Civil caseloads still shrink modestly as judges shift from civil to criminal work.
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Office of Court Administration
OCA
Harold Wolfe
Wolfe
Lawrence Cooke
Cooke
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Supreme Court
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Westchester
Suffolk Counties
Folk music pioneer Hays dies at 67 in North Tarrytown
North Tarrytown AP reports Lee Hays died at 67 after heart attack at his Croton home. He helped form the Weavers with Pete Seeger and others, writing If I Had a Hammer and shaping American folk. The group faced 1950s subversion charges yet inspired a 1955 Carnegie Hall triumph and a 25th anniversary reunion in New York.
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Pete Seeger
Fred Hellerman
Ronnie Gilbert
Carnegie Hall
New York
Croton-on-Studson
Phelps Memorial Hospital
Harold Leventhal
Weavers
Wilkins in Critical Condition at New York Hospital
Roy Wilkins, 79, civil rights leader and longtime NAACP head, remained on the critical list at New York University Medical Center after being moved to intensive care with kidney complications. He was admitted Aug 19 for a coronary condition and his condition stabilized briefly.
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UPI
Roy Wilkins
Judy Glass
New York University Medical Center
Miss Glass
Wilkins
NAACP
Buffalo district lays off 108 staff in budget cut
The Buffalo school board approved a 141.3 million budget, triggering the layoff of 108 teachers and staff amid a four million dollar operating shortfall. The action eliminates elementary physical education, maintains varsity sports, and adds some staff tied to a desegregation plan and handicapped programs. Principal class sizes average about 28, with some reaching 35.
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Buffalo
Board of Education
Ruth Braitwaite
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community School
Joseph T. Murray
Water supplies may be cut back again by Oct 1 DRBC warns
The Delaware River Basin Commission says four state water users may face further curtailments if dry weather continues. NYC area reservoirs connected to the Delaware are at low storage, with 161 billion gallons (59 percent) in the three upper basin reservoirs, down from 181 billion (67 percent) this time last year.
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N.J
Delaware River
Delaware River Basin Commission
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Delaware
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Commission
Delaware Basin
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