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Tougher smoking warnings
Tougher health warnings to be used on cigarette packaging.
Ed Meese investigation
Reagan's chosen attorney general, Ed Meese, to be investigated by special prosecutor.
CIA mines Nicaragua ports
Reagan snubs claims that CIA mined Nicaraguan ports.
Argentina bailed out
Emergency package helps Argentine avoid default on loans.
Holiday in San Francisco
Cooke visits San Francisco, his honeymoon destination during the Alcatraz mutiny of 1946.
No school prayers
School prayers amendment fails to win Senate approval.
'Where's the beef?'
Ad campaign slogan becomes a political statement.
Smiley Ratliff's escape bid, 1984
American millionaire Smiley Ratliff tries to buy Pacific island to get away from it all.
John Glenn and the presidency
Senator John Glenn tries for the Democrat nomination in the presidential race.
Americanisms
Translating American words across the Atlantic, how English language changes over time.
