IRA hunger strikers body sparks clash at Shannon Airport
In Ireland police with a helicopter removed hunger striker Frank Stagg’s coffin from Shannon Airport amid scuffles with IRA supporters and family members. Government sources said the remains may go to Stagg’s widow for burial in Mayo, while the IRA vows court action to recover the body for a coast-to-coast funeral as authorities bar any paramilitary display.
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Kissinger Presses Brazil for Greater Global Role
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel to urge Brazil to take a larger part in world affairs. He criticized Cuba’s military intervention in Angola and discussed regional and international issues with Geisel and Foreign Minister Antonio Azevedo da Silveira at the presidential palace in Brasilia.
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Chloroform cancer risk tied to over the counter medicines
UPI reports the National Cancer Institute drafts say high dose chloroform in mice caused 96 percent liver cancer and low dose 57 percent. some rats developed kidney cancer. Officials caution these results do not prove human risk though high exposure may be a concern. FDA panel earlier found no cancer link and that chloroform is ineffective for cold symptoms.
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Elections commission weighs end of presidential campaign subsidies
Washington reports the Federal Election Commission faces a deadline as Supreme Court ruling voids the payments mechanism. With March 1 looming, the agency may stop certifying matching funds, while Congress debates a fix. The FEC has approved subsidies for several candidates and may extend the deadline to certify further payments if Congress acts.
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Women riding with police worry chief
Concord Police Chief David Walchak says he has no major objections to wives and girlfriends riding with officers in cruisers. His only concern is their safety and he plans a poll of the department before deciding.
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UPI
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Tobacco state senators fight Cigarette health tax
Senators from tobacco growing states oppose a proposed four year 9.3 billion cigarette health tax saying it would ruin the tobacco industry. Nobel laureate Renato Dulbecco testifies that government inaction on curbing smoking is shocking and urges safer tobacco practices.
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Gary Hart
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Tennessee
Wendell Ford
Walter Huddleston
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Hearst Takes Fifth In Missing Year Questioning
Patricia Hearst, who turned 22, repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment22 times refusing to answer about her time from September 1974 in Las Vegas to September 1975 in a San Francisco apartment. Prosecutors may pursue charges tied to an April 1975 Carmichael bank robbery.
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Patricia Hearst
Las Vegas
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F. Lee Bailey
Miss Hearst
Carmichael
Calif
U.S. District Court
Oliver J. Carter
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