Elderly beg Congress to spare federal aid cuts
Washington hearing shows 80 year old Rep Claude Pepper and two elderly witnesses urging no cutbacks to Social Security Medicare Medicaid food stamps housing and meals. They cite poverty risk and unsafe housing as consequences of policy belt tightening and tax cuts for the elderly.
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UPI
Congress
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
House Select Committee On
Lilly Sharp
Miami
Carrie Persons
Sharp
America
Pepper
Soviets launch killer satellite to strike orbit targets
Washington sources say the Soviet Union demonstrated a killer satellite can reach a position to threaten target vehicles in space. The third such test since April passed near a prior target without destroying it, while the U S does not possess a killer satellite but plans an air based anti satellite capability.
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Washington
UPD
Soviet Union
United States
Social Security to Trim COLA and Fund Shortfall
Rep. J J Pickle says Congress will curb cost of living adjustments for retirees to fix near term funding woes. He notes shifting Medicare financing to the income tax base and points to possible cuts in student benefits, minimum benefits, and lump-sum death payments as admin proposals align with lawmakers.
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J.J. Pickle
D-Texas
United Press International
Pickle
House
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Dave Stockman
Reagan
Falwell again says he opposes censorship in Penthouse battle
UPI reports TV preacher Jerry Falwell told NBC he would not seek to ban Penthouse despite calling the magazine vulgar and salacious. He sues publisher Robert Guccione for 10 million over an interview while disputing verbatim publication and prior restraint actions.
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UPI
Jerry Falwell
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Robert Guccione
NBC
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U.S. District Court
Lynchburg
March
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