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...whisked into a U.S. district courtroom to be charged formally with the attempted assassination of the President, a crime carrying a maximum life sentence upon conviction, and assaulting a federal officer. Before dawn, he was moved into a small prison cell at the Marine Correctional Facility in Quantico, Va. Just two weeks...
When Reagan went horseback riding at Quantico, Va., Ruge, who spent some of his boyhood on the backs of his father's Percherons, watched with a certain nostalgia from the fences. "The President is a marvelous physical specimen," he said. "His very demeanor shows that he is healthy...
...surprise that the family's awesome talent and phenomenal successes have attracted hordes of journalists to their Alexandria, Va., home, in the hopes of discovering the root of the Rapp's athletic prowess, as well as some sensational tidbits about, say, sibling rivalry. Washington Post reporters even went to the lengths of asking to move in for a few days so that they could observe the family in depth...
Democrat Gary Hart of Colorado has introduced an amendment to the budget proposal in the Senate Finance Committee to reduce VA cuts by $25 million -and save the centers. The veterans' affairs committees in both houses appear inclined to restore funds for them. Meanwhile, Muller is proposing a $250 million package for Congress to help Viet Nam veterans even more. His goals: hiring additional personnel for the counseling program; assisting the vets in finding jobs; requiring the VA to determine if the vets will get help for problems related to the herbicide Agent Orange; and extending the time that...
...region's biggest payoff will probably come in natural gas. Drillers are already having considerable success in tracking down uptapped pockets of the precious fuel. In 1978 the Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. struck gas in Mineral County, W. Va., with a well that gushed 10 million cu. ft. of the fuel per day. A year later, the company tapped into a second natural gas gusher producing 8.8 million cu. ft. daily. Such start-up production levels are comparable to major wells in gas-rich Louisiana and Oklahoma...