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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Howard Lafranchi

August 31, 1983

The US had more marriages in 1980 than in any previous year. A record 44 percent of those marriages involved men and women who had been married before. The government reported nearly 2.4 million marriages across the country in 1980, up 3 percent from the previous year.