Reagan gears for fight over AWACS sale to Saudi Arabia
Washington reports that President Reagan faces sharp Senate and House opposition to the 85 billion AWACS package for Saudi Arabia. Key committees plan votes on disapproval resolutions, with a potential veto risk unless leadership delays decisions. Public tests run through Oct. 31 deadline as lawmakers scrutinize missiles and aircraft in a high-stakes struggle.
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Stokes attacks Oberlin council at OPAC dinner
Former Cleveland mayor Carl Stokes lashed Oberlin officials during a 70 minute OPAC testimonial for Sherry Suttles. He urged voting for OPAC’s three council candidates and told black voters to limit ballots to those names. Local leaders criticized the speech as harmful and divisive.
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Leeother Johnson
Sherry
Eli Long
Dewey Gahrél
Long
Carl Breuning
Breuning
Judy Sheldon
Harriet Arnold
Arnold
Memoirs of a street kid and Old Man Jones
A Rocky River memory piece recalling a feared 1940s cop nicknamed Old Man Jones who terrorized neighborhood kids. The narrator reflects on growing up, later becoming a police reporter, and reassessing the officer’s harsh actions as possibly driven by stress from his own bosses and home life.
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Old Man Jones
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Oswald grave yields after exhumation confirms identity
In Fort Worth Texas pathologists concluded within hours that the body in Lee Harvey Oswald’s grave is indeed Oswald, not a Russian imposter. Dental records and a mastoid operation signature matched Oswald, as Marina Oswald Porter seeks privacy after the exhumation and autopsy.
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UPI
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F Kennedy
Linda Norton
Oswald
Baylor University Medical Center
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