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A drop in the number of persons receiving medical assistance helped offset the jumps in AFDC and general assistance. Chicago Tribune Press Service SPRINGFIELD The number of public aid cases in Illinois is at its highest level since the Depression of the 1930s, according to the latest report prepared by the state Department of Public Aid. More than one million residents are receiving some type of assistance in the state, figures show. According to the more than 4,500 persons were added to public aid rolls during February, bringing the total number of welfare recipients to 1,013,324. The month's increase was the 14th time the rolls have gone up in the last 15 months.

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Speculation focused on Sunday as the likely homecoming. Aides said Reagan had his "best day yet" in the hospital and is spending about two hours a day at work. A refurbished solarium is ready for his White House convalescence, they said. The President signed a letter, with a shaky "Ron," to House Republican Leader Robert Michel (Peoria), expressing regret about an early setback during the House Budget Committee's work on the administration's proposed spending 'cuts. -it REAGAN, a former sportscaster and college football player, added the postscript: "I promise to 'suit up' and come off the bench as soon as possible." There was encouraging news about James Brady, the White House press secretary who was shot in the brain during the assassination attempt.

He was said to have joked with a friend about going shark fishing this summer. Brady's deputy, Larry Speakes, said his recov- ery so far was "really nothing short of a miracle." He reported that Dr. Dennis O'Leary, a top tal official, was extremely optimistic that Brady could "return to his profession." Surgeons, however, have said it could be a year before the full effects of Brady's head wound and emergency brain surgery are known. Meanwhile, a federal grand jury in Connecticut Thursday indicted Edward RichardsQn on two counts of threatening to kill Reagan. INVESTIGATORS said there is no apparent link between Richardson and Reagan's alleged assailant, John Hinckley Jr.

However, Richardson's indictment cites an April 6 note in which he said Hinckley told him in "a prophetic dream" that "R.R. must die." In a second note, the indictment charges, Richardson said that "Reagan will be shot to death and this country turned to the left." The defendant, being held in lieu of $500,000 bond, faces up to a $1,000 fine and five, years in jail on each count, In the wake of Reagan's March 30 shooting, persons in at least five other states have been arrested on charges of threatening the President. Reagan seemed to have shaken his fever, and doses of one of the two antibiotics he had been receiving were discontinued, a White House medical statement said Thursday. O'Leary said Reagan's chest therapy, pounding on his torso to help clear his air passages, has been reduced and he no longer receives tobramycin, an antibiotic administered in case an infection was causing the fever. He continued to receive penicillin.

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