Soviet court suspends sentence for U S businessman Crawford
In Moscow the Soviet court found Francis J. Crawford guilty of buying rubles on the black market and imposed a five year suspended sentence as prosecutors requested. An expulsion order was not issued, with Crawford likely remaining until the espionage trial of two Soviet U N employees in New Jersey.
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Postal Deadline Nearing Amid Bargaining Talks
With nine days until the deadline, United States Postal Service negotiators and three unions pursue a new contract. Special mediator James Healy will first meet separately with each side then reconvene for face-to-face talks. Unions representing 516,000 workers pressed for a larger pay raise. a union official remained noncommittal after Wednesday sessions.
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Mystery illness spreads in New York garment district
Medical detectives probe Legionnaires disease in midtown Manhattan where nine people are ill or believed infected after August in West 35th Street area. Three deaths are confirmed with one more death linked and six nonfatal cases remain under study. The outbreak echoes a 1976 Philadelphia convention link.
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Pennsylvania American Legion
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Kennedy Experts Plan Endorsement of Backward Bullet Theory
Autopsy experts planned to endorse the Warren Commission finding that Kennedy was killed by a bullet from the rear. The House committee aired questions on the Dallas shooting of November 22, 1963 and planned to hear pathologists backing the majority view while a lone dissenter offered a contrary report.
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Birth Control Pill Linked to Slight Rise in Minor Defects
Harvard researchers led by Kenneth Rothman and Carol Louik find women stopping the pill under a month before conception show 4.3 percent birth defects in babies, versus 3.3 percent for nonusers and 3.6 percent for those who quit earlier. no large malformations observed. The study appears in the New England Journal of Medicine based on 5,535 pill users and 2,188 nonusers.
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Kenneth Rothman
Carol Louik
New England Journal of Medicine
Carter faces possible veto override over nuclear carrier plan
President Carter faces a House vote to override his veto of a 37 billion defense bill that includes a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. The showdown centers on a two thirds vote with supporters and opponents claiming enough support. The veto marks a rare clash between the executive and legislature over a major defense program.
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Senate Armed Services
Thomas P. O'Neill
Congress
Robert Michel
Illinois
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