NEWS OF HIJACKING DENIED TO ISRAELIS
Date: 14 April 1984
By David K. Shipler
David Shipler
Most Israelis knew nothing of the hijacking of a bus south of Tel Aviv on Thursday night until they awoke this morning and turned on the radio or picked up their newspapers.
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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS ; Fatal Attraction
Date: 15 April 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
Migrating ruby-throated hummingbirds, desperate for food last fall after a drought, were reported being electrocuted in Missouri because they mistook red insulators on electric fences for bright flowers.
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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS ; Marital Tangle
Date: 15 April 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
Two months after a couple had been married by a justice of the peace in Texas, the Tarrant County Clerk sued to revoke their marriage license.
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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS ; Historic Floor
Date: 15 April 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
It was a spot that was beginning to rival the Alamo as a tourist attraction: the old Texas School Book Depository Building in Dallas. Hundreds of thousands of visitors were streaming there every year.
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COMPANY NEWS ; LTV and Republic To Report Losses
Date: 14 April 1984
In the joint proxy statement filed for their proposed merger, the LTV Corporation and the Republic Steel Corporation said that, based on preliminary figures, each lost more than $30 million in the first quarter, an official with one of the companies disclosed yesterday.
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Death of a Phone
Date: 15 April 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
The last crank phones in the United States stopped ringing in Bryant Pond, Me., last Oct. 11 as the central switchboard in Elden Hathaway's home, manned by two operators in the living room, shut down.
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FUTURES/OPTIONS ; Orange Juice Rebounds On Brazil Price News
Date: 14 April 1984
Reuters
Orange juice futures rebounded from heavy losses to post gains of up to 1 cent today on news that Brazil's export agency is considering raising the price of its orange juice concentrate.
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HOW U.S. AID IS PROCESSED By States News Service
Date: 15 April 1984
WASHINGTON UNDER the Disaster Relief Act of 1974, the law governing Federal disaster intervention, the Federal Emergency Management Agency must determine that the magnitude of the ''recovery activities'' is beyond the capabilities of state and local governments.
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BRADLEY PLAYS KEY TAX ROLE By States News Service
Date: 15 April 1984
WASHINGTON FOREIGN affairs, concern over tax policies, old-fashioned constituent politics and Senator Bill Bradley have combined to derail for now an effort to close a tax loophole that lets people deduct from their taxable income the cost of luxury cars used for business.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1984 International
Date: 14 April 1984
Emergency authority was invoked by President Reagan to provide El Salvador with up to $32 million in new military assistance after Congress did not approve supplementary funds before going on its Easter recess, Administration officials said. Their announcement was preceded by contradictory reports. They said the President's action was an attempt to avoid an all-out confrontation with the House Democrats. The Democrats had offered a compromise of their own that the Administration appeared to accept only in part. (Page 1, Column 6.) The mining of Nicaraguan ports was monitored closely by the House Select Committee on Intelligence after the panel was notified in January that the United States was involved, according to the committee chairman, Representative Edward P. Boland, Democrat of Massachusetts. (1:5.)
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NEW STEEL UNION CHIEF: LYNN RUSSELL WILLIAMS
Date: 14 April 1984
By William Serrin
William Serrin
Almost all union presidents face difficulties these days, but the problems facing Lynn R. Williams, new president of the United Steelworkers of America, seem especially burdensome. The membership has fallen from 1.4 million in 1979 to less than 750,000 today; the union faces a major loss of dues revenues and has made substantial staff reductions. Its organizing staff is small and, for the most part, stays in the headquarters in Pittsburgh. The union was divided by the race for president between Mr. Williams, then acting president and secretary, and Frank McKee, the union treasurer.
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