Reagan Narrowly Trails in Senate on AWACS Sale
President Reagan gained fresh Senate backing for the AWACS Saudi arms deal but remains 19 votes short of approval. If voting occurred now, the count would be 57 to 1 against, with 50 votes needed, amid ongoing efforts to sway undecided and opposing senators before a decisive showdown in two weeks.
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Jim Adams
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Saudi Arabia
Associated Press
Ify
U.S
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Congress
Israel
Nancy Landon Kassebaum
R-Kan
Don Nickles
Rokla
Simpson
Hatch
House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
AWACS
Two Americans share Nobel Prize in medicine
Two Americans receive the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on visual brain processing and conscious perception. The award highlights how each brain hemisphere has distinct functions and how early vision shapes perception, with implications for models of brain activity and identity.
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Karolinska Institute
Huber
Wiesel
Karolinska
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Alfred Nobel
Ingmar Grenthe
Royal Institute of Technology
U.S
Baruj Benacerraf
George Snell
Jean Dausset
Egghazi
Allan Macleod
United States
Godfrey Hounsfield
Britain
Carter letter calls Post report on bugging false
Adamson accuses The Washington Post of injuring the Carters by reporting that Blair House was bugged by the U.S. government. He says verification would have shown the claim false and prompts a public apology. Bradlee questions the piece and ridicules a public apology.
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Katharine Graham
Washington Post Co
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Carters
United States
Bradlee
Rtun
Pennsylvania Avenue
Four presidents meet on the South Lawn in historic fourfold reunion
A 1970s style historic moment unfolds as Reagan hosts former presidents Carter Ford and Nixon for a rare gathering on the South Lawn. The event includes a dusk arrival, handshakes, and a formal White House sendoff before Carter departs for Cairo. The meeting notes mark a rare occasion when four living presidents were together, with historical context from previous quartet sightings.
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Nixon
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Harry S. Truman
Johnson
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Herbert Hoover
John F. Kennedy
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Library of Congress
Congressional Research Service
Ford recalls 2400 Ford Escort and Mercury Lynx cars
Ford Motor Co recalls 2400 1982 model Escort and Lynx cars to modify fuel-inlet grounding systems. The action extends a prior recall covering 125,000 Escorts and Lynxes built before December 12, 1980. Cars lacking a ground wire risk static buildup in the fuel-filler pipe. dealers perform a 20 minute free modification.
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Ord Motor Co
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Ford Parts and Service Division
Transon
Massachusetts
Joseph O'Keefe
Edison
N.J
Former Presidents Fly to Egypt for Sadat Funeral
Security officials reported clashes in Asyut left at least 10 dead and many injured. Three living ex presidents Nixon Ford and Carter joined Reagan in Washington as Haig represented him, flying to Cairo to convey U S grief with heightened police around mosques and potential trouble spots.
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White House
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Cairo
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Egypt
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