News stories from Saturday February 13, 1982
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Budget revisions were ruled out by President Reagan in a letter to Republican members of Congress. "This is no time for turning back," he said, although he pledged to be a "willing listener." [New York Times]
- The poor face the deepest cuts proposed for government benefit programs in President Reagan's budget for the coming year. The budget would reduce the rate of growth and also cut the absolute level of federal spending for the three biggest social welfare programs: food stamps, Medicaid and Aid to Families with Dependent Children. [New York Times]
- Auto makers did not attend a job fair in Detroit sponsored by the local public schools. Neither Ford, General Motors nor Chrysler was among the the dozen local employers interviewing seniors and graduates. Until the recession worsened, the Big Three could be counted on to hire groups of graduates for their assembly lines. The last time that happened was late in 1979. [New York Times]
- Louis Brandeis paid at least $50,000 to Felix Frankfurter to act as his political lieutenant and further his political goals in Brandeis's 23 years on the Supreme Court, according to previously unpublished letters between the two jurists. The retainer arrangement ended when Brandeis retired from the Court in 1939, the year Frankfurter became an Associate Justice. [New York Times]
- An order to leave El Salvador has been given to a senior American military adviser for having carried a rifle on training missions in violation of United States regulations. Ambassador Deane Hinton announced that Col. Harry Melander, who has been in El Salvador for more than four months, would return to the United States next week. He said that Colonel Melander was one of five American advisers who were carrying M-16 automatic rifles while helping Salvadoran soldiers replace a bridge that had been blown up by guerrillas. The other armed Americans received "firm, oral reprimands," Mr. Hinton said. [New York Times]
- A struggle in the cockpit preceded the crash of the Japan Air Lines jetliner in Tokyo Bay on Tuesday, police investigators said. One of the plane's four engines was put into reverse just before the crash that killed 24 people. Evidence also suggests that the pilot might have gone berserk. [New York Times]
- Blacks marched in Johannesburg and in white surburbs carrying the coffin of a white trade union organizer who died in police custody. The outlawed flag of the African National Congress was also carried by more than 1,000 blacks and whites in what almost certainly was the largest display of black political feeling in white areas since the Congress movement was banned in 1960. [New York Times]
- A new sale of weapons to Jordan will be recommended to President Reagan by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Mr. Weinberger said at the end of his vist to Saudi Arabia, Oman and Jordan that he would discuss Jordan's military needs with the President even though he had no formal request for weapons from Jordan. [New York Times]