Food stamp cuts could hurt families like Darden
Eight year old Tunisia Darden relies on a free school lunch and her mother Cynthia navigates a $101 monthly food stamp budget. The Reagan plan seeks to cut overlap with free lunches, reduce overall benefits and tighten eligibility, threatening basic meals for millions.
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Suzanne Wooton
Baltimore Evening Sun
Baltimore
Tunisia
Darden
Cynthia
Cynthia Darden
Reagan
General Motors
Shuttle fires engines in launch pad countdown test
The shuttle powered by four fuel cell generators fired engines during a countdown practice on the Columbia pad. Observers cheered as the test simulated a real launch except for crew entry and booster rocket ignition.
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Shuttle
America
U.S. Marined Space Program
Mercury
Gemini
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Carth
Liddy Denied Entry to Canada Over Criminal Record
G Gordon Liddy, Watergate figure, was refused entry into Canada via the Detroit Windsor Tunnel after immigration officials cited his criminal record. He had been set to promote his book Wait in Toronto.
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Canada
Liddy
Windsor
Ontario
G. Gordon Liddy
Detroit-Windsor
Detroit
Congress
Daniel Bilsberg
Toronto
Ludy
United Stiles
Budget battle diagrams compare Carter 1981 and Reagan 1984
Diagram figures from the Office of Management and Budget contrast priorities category by category. The chart outlines how President Carter’s 1981 budget differs from President Reagan’s 1984 proposals across spending, revenues, deficits, and program emphasis.
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Carter
Reagan
Office of Management and Budget
Critics split on Reagan tax cuts amid Democratic opposition
Critics argue income tax cuts favor the wealthy and won’t deliver the promised savings. Reagan officials describe the plan as an economic scenario, not a conventional forecast. House Republicans fear Democrats may replace the plan with their own tax cut proposal, complicating the 1984 budget path.
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Re- Ban
House
Robert Michel
Illinois
Reagan
Carter Administration
Congress
Welcome Home Norasings in New Fayetteville Apartment
The Norasing family arrives in the United States settling into a new apartment with church donations of clothing and household items. Boun, a welder, plans to study English and work at Stickley Furniture Co. in Fayetteville while his 15 year old brother Bounson attends Levy Junior High and the girls enroll at Percy Hughes Elementary. They will receive $120 each from the federal government for rent and necessities.
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Boun
Pebble Hill Church
Stickley Furniture Co
Fayetteville
States
Addion
Bounson
Levy Junior High
Percy Hughes
Homesick Reagan returns to California for a rest
President Reagan, saying he is very homesick, travels to his Santa Ynez ranch near Santa Barbara after a month in Washington. He will stay through Sunday to recharge, with aides noting he enjoys physical work and prefers the ranch to Camp David.
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Helen Thomas
Santa Barbara
Calif
UPI
Reagan
California
Washington
Nancy
Santa Ynez Mountains
Point Mugu Naval Air Station
White House
Edwin Meese
Camp David
Maryland
Meese
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