Massive spring blizzard bursts through northern plains
A deadly early season storm dumps up to 20 inches of snow across the northern Plains. Blizzard warnings span the region as highways close and schools halt while tornadoes and severe storms sweep Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma. In Oklahoma a wind whipped tornado injures 21 and destroys nine trailers.
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Plains
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
New York State
New England
National Weather Service
Pacific Northwest
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakotas
Harry Gordon
National
Dean Nesley
Minneapolis
Rockies
New Mexico
Texas
EPA orders reduced lead in regular gasoline after 10-year delay
The EPA adopts final rules lowering lead in regular gasoline from 1.1 to 0.5 grams per gallon effective July 1 and to 0.1 gram next January 1, to curb blood lead levels in children. The agency rejects a full ban now but may seek comments on a total phaseout as early as 1988.
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EPA
Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
Centers For Disease Control
Reagan
Anne Burford
Private colleges mold aid to recruiting efforts
Private colleges migrate from need based aid to selective targeting of recruitment. Wooster and others tailor scholarships to attract top students with more grants and fewer loans or work aid. Experts warn the shift erodes a 30 year tradition of need based aid and risks turning student help into a recruitment tool amid rising tuition and reduced federal support.
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New York
College of Wooster
Ohio
Wooster
Lawrence E. Gladieux
College Board
Cornell University
Wesleyan University
Gladieux
Steven Muller
Johns Hopkins University
Harvard
Yale
Western Reserve
College
College Scholarship Service
5,000 Black March Reenactment at Edmund Pettus Bridge
Selma resident Mozelle Thomas recounts 1965 state trooper violence at the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the attempted march to Montgomery. She wore glasses from the tear gas as participants rally for full voting rights and justice. Speakers including Rev. Joseph Lowery urge continued action toward civil rights victories.
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Selma
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Mozelle Thomas
Martin‘Luther King Jr
Montgomery
Justice Departet
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Hosea Williams
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