Reagans Gift Prince William Custom Mahogany Chair
The Reagan White House presented Prince William of Wales with a $750 25 inch high Chippendale chair crafted in Honduras mahogany and a 73000 stitch needlepoint seat. Nancy Reagan selected the gift, animals authorized the check, and the chair features a needlepoint design by Aileen Crawford with dogwood motifs and a royal inscription.
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UPI
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Prince William of Wales
U.S
White House
Honduras
Buckingham Palace
London
Nancy Reagan
Prince Charles
Diana
Ellen Hancock
White Horse
Reagans
Sheba Tate
Nina Wormler
State Department
Telescope scans sky for Halley's comet in Texas
Fort Davis, Texas Ed Barker of the University of Texas mountain top observatory says a competition exists to recover information about Halley's comet as powerful telescopes monitor the heavens for its passage. Public interest is noted.
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Fort Davis, Texas
UPI
Halley
Ed Barker
University of Texas’ Mountaintop Observatory
Fort Davis
Klan unity talks at Stone Mountain rally
Rival Ku Klux Klan factions from eight states and Canada met at Stone Mountain Georgia for unity talks during a Labor Day weekend rally. Don Black, grand wizard, said discussions aimed to form one organization and a single leaders council as about 300 to 500 Klansmen and families attended.
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Ku Klux Klan
Canada
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Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Wallace Poised To Win Alabama Democratic Primary
George Wallace 63 in a wheelchair awaits a likely victory in Alabama Democratic primary polls. He faces four opponents including Lt. Gov. George McMillan and Joe McCorquodale, with a runoff likely if no candidate gains a majority. Emory Folmar unopposed for Republican nomination. Primaries also in Connecticut Florida and Arizona.
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Ala
UPI
George Wallace
Alabama
Wallace
Emory Folmar
Connecticut
Florida
Arizona
Birmingham Post-Herald
George McMillan
Joe McCorquodale
Enrollment trends show drops in K-12 and rising costs
A federal profile projects fall enrollments for kindergarten through high school down by about 500,000 to 57.3 million while college enrollments rise by 128,000. Total education spending is forecast at 215 billion, with public and private funding split among elementary, secondary, and higher education.
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Washington
UPS
Education Department
Terrel Bell
Bell
Final rock concert weekend draws 100000 fans
100000 attend the festival weekend with friends from the base. SHANE Briggs said the crowd behaved well and there was no violence. Two dozen arrests, mostly petty theft and drug possession, were reported. Medical director Dean Grose said 2035 treated, 62 taken by ambulance for sprains and x rays. Traffic eased with one way flow, heat peaked at 118 degrees with heavy smog.
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Dean Grose
Grose
Toll on U.S. roads climbs toward 300 deaths
United Press International reports at least 246 people killed on highways since the Labor Day weekend began Friday at 6 p.m. Local figures show California with 35 fatalities and Texas with 27. Revelers on waning summer holidays crowd highways as traffic accidents rise.
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United Press International
U.S
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Texas
Federal snags stall aid for college students
Federal aid to thousands of needy college students is delayed as $530 million in allocations sit with Congress and the Reagan administration. Schools move to bridge gaps with internal loans and fee waivers while warnings grow that some students may forgo college this year. Florida State University and Florida schools offer interim aid. Penn and Connecticut programs also step in.
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Tallahassee
Tallahassee, Fla
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Washington
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Connecticut
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Bill Younkin
Ed Marsh
Florida State
University of Florida
Aa Turner
Reagan loosens sanctions on pipeline suppliers in Europe
The United States suspended a ban on the Italian firm Nuovo Pignone and its subsidiary INSO for supplying the Siberian gas pipeline with US equipment. Baldrige said sanctions on two French firms would be readjusted, and Britain’s Jom Brown Engineering remains pending as its ship has not sailed. The action aims to pressure the Soviet project while not harming allies.
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UPI
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Ban Ny Oe
Commerce
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Big Jim” Folsom
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