Be another day of Israeli air strikes on Beirut and PLO sites
Israeli warplanes bombed Palestinian targets in Beirut and southern suburbs for an hour. Targets included around the international airport the Arab University Palestinian refugee camps and the Ramlet el Baida coast road. A Paris based PLO leader was killed in a grenade attack blamed on the Jewish Defense League. Israel said it halted a major assault with a unilateral cease fire in eastern Lebanon the previous day. Sidon imposed a curfew as security forces hunted PLO infiltrators.
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Sidon
Reagan sees improvement in economy amid recession
President Reagan said the gross national product shows a slight upturn and that the recession has bottomed out though a booming recovery will take time. He spoke with KMOX-TV in St Louis during a two day visit. Murray Weidenbaum resigned as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers for academic life reasons, a move Speakes said is not policy related.
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Reagan departs for Camp David after brief Washington stay
Barefoot boot appreciative of his service, and he leaves with the president's respect and best wishes. Reagan returns to Washington today and later leaves for a weekend at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Md. The Commerce Department reported the GNP rose at a 1.7 percent annual rate in Q2, prompting mixed opinions on whether the recession is ending. Weidenbaum said the bottom is reached and upturn underway, while Baldrige cautioned the economy is in a transition between recession and recovery. Chimerine warned the gain could be temporary and not guarantee full recovery. Reagan spoke in a St Louis TV interview.
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Utility cost survey prompts mixed city results
The report lists average monthly utility costs across several cities including Toledo, Dayton, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Youngstown and Akron. Prices span electricity gas and telephone, with figures ranging from the low thirties to the sixties for electric and gas, and around twelve dollars for telephone. The piece notes mixed economic signals as the White House reassesses optimistic growth, while Reagan tours St Louis events and faces protests at a hotel rally.
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New Pershing II missile explodes on first test flight
A faulty first stage rocket motor caused the Pershing II to explode 17 seconds into its inaugural test flight off Cape Canaveral. Debris showered the Atlantic shore with no injuries. The dummy warhead splashed in ten feet of water as range safety devices detonated the rest.
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Babysitter charged with strangling two children in Florida
Blountstown police say Christine Falling 19, in jail without bond, strangled 2 toddlers in her care, Travis Coleman 9 months old on July 8 1980 and Cassidy Johnson 2, amid a string of infant deaths and illnesses investigated across Calhoun Lakeland and Perry. Authorities review tissue exams and consider further prosecutions while Falling faced psychiatric evaluation and denies motive.
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UPI
Calhoun County
Christine Falling
Travis DeWayne Coleman
Cassidy “Muffin” Johnson
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Jim Appleman
Lakeland
Perry
Miss Falling
Johnson
Two light planes crash over Seattle suburb killing six
Two light planes collided above Mercer Island near Seattle late Thursday. Six people died, five in a Cessna 172 explosion on a residential street, including a child. The sixth victim, the Cessna Skylark pilot from Boeing Field, died after a crash on Mercer Island. The ground level had no injuries.
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Seattle
Curtis Johnson
Fears rise as IRA warns of bombs
London fears of a summer campaign grow after an IRA warning that a London bomb is worth 100 in Belfast. An IRA spokesman claimed a 7 ton explosives cache. Police head Hucklesby said the raids did not derail London life and warned of a strong response if bombings continue. Scotland Yard denied confirming a 7 ton gelignite stock. A separate item in Stuart Florida reports an unexplained 100 pound ice block crashed through Edith Turner’s kitchen roof, with authorities unsure of source or origin.
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Iran signals restraint in Gulf war aims near Basra
Iran says it seeks to neutralize Iraqi artillery and push back forces rather than annex Iraq, while Baghdad reports Iraqi troops regaining control east of Basra. Tehran notes 372 Iraqi tanks and 2,100 Baathists killed or injured in latest clash as fighting spans a 155 square mile area.
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