Pigs to be destroyed in Rhode Island cholera outbreak
About 2,000 hogs from Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts will be culled this week to halt hog cholera spread. Officials say the disease is swine only, not a human risk, and owners will be reimbursed at market value.
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Tiverton
R.I
UPI
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Kathy Ellis
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Dartmouth
Mass
New Jersey
Motor Inn
Portsmouth
Massachusetts Department of Agriculture
Miss Ellis
Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras crowds flood New Orleans streets
Festive revelry fills the French Quarter as more than half a million people join Mardi Gras celebrations signaling the start of Lent. Parades run from dawn to night, with Pete Fountain and the Zulu parade drawing crowds. Police report a largely orderly scene with nearly 1,000 arrests, a shooting incident causing minor injuries, and ongoing festive risk management.
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New Orleans
UPI
Pete Fountain
French Quarter
Frank Haywood
Bourbon St
Mardi Gras
Judges to view films they rule on case seeks cinema verite
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case from Newport Kentucky where operators of the Cinema X Theatre were convicted for showing Deep Throat Swing High Memories of a Madam and A Few Bucks More The appeal argues the Sixth Circuit relied on affidavits about explicit scenes instead of watching the films itself It also questions juror instructions on community standards and whether the 1973 obscenity yardstick should apply The case will be decided by written opinion next fall or winter
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Cinema X Theatre
Newport
6Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Purple bacteria convert sunlight to energy in Dead Sea find
A UC Berkeley and NASA Ames teamreports a purple pigment protein in halobacterium halobium from the Dead Sea that acts as a tiny light powered generator. Illuminated pigment ejects protons, pumping hydrogen ions to generate electrical energy and may aid desalination and solar power.
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Nature
Walther Stoeckenius
University of California Medical Center
Dead Sea
Mediterranean
Earth
Stoeckenius
Comet West Visible Before Dawn This Week
In Cambridge Massachusetts the bright Comet West, discovered by Richard West, should be visible briefly before sunrise for five days from Wednesday to Sunday. Harvard Smithsonian scientists say it has been seen in the Southern Hemisphere and now in the United States, with binoculars or even naked eye enough to spot it.
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Cambridge
Mass
UPI
Comet West
Richard West
European Southern Observatory
Harvard Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics
United States
Rhodesia offers new talks proposals on majority rule
Rhodesia's white minority government reportedly offered black leaders significant new proposals in constitutional talks led by Premier Ian Smith and Joshua Nkomo. The leaders met for two hours as discussions resumed amid hopes of speedier progress toward majority rule, though details were not disclosed.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
UPI
Ian Smith
Smith
Joshua Nkomo
African National Council
Nkomo
Britain
Gus Hall Campaign Goes to Moscow for Support
UPI reports Gus Hall, leader of Americas Communists, travels to Moscow where he appears on television and attends the 25th party congress. Hall denounces Western imperialism and gains prominent coverage in Pravda, signaling a pro Moscow stance ahead of US elections.
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Moscow
Leonid Brezhnev
Hall
Pravda
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Congress
Lindbergh son alive claim called preposterous
Prosecutor Wilentz rejects Kenneth Kerwin's suit claiming he is Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. and seeking part of the aviator's estate. He notes the body found near the Lindbergh home was identified as the child, making survival highly unlikely. The discussion traces the case history and public reaction.
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Perth Amboy
N.J
UPI
Lindbergh
David T. Wilentz
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Wilentz
Kenneth Kerwin
Sanford
Charles A. Lindbergh Jr
Lone Eagle
Hopewell
Lindberghs
Nurses tied to 11 VA deaths in mass-murder probe
Federal prosecutors identify two Filipino nurses in an Ann Arbor VA Hospital case linking 11 veteran deaths to alleged mass murder attempts. Indiana cancer patient Richard Neely testified under court-ordered sworn status about being injected with a suspected curare-like drug. Nurses Perez and Narciso denied charges, with defense opposing the sworn testimony move.
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Detroit
UPI
Veterans Administration Hospital
Ann Arbor
Indiana
Leonora M. Perez
Chicago
Filipina B. Narciso
Ypsilanti
Grand
FBI
U.S. District Court
Richard Neely
Osceola
Ind
Neely
Perez
Thomas O’brien
Connally drive in N H cost 200 per vote
New Hampshire primary returns show John Connally’s write in effort cost about 200 dollars per vote. Virginia ad man Richard Viguerie oversaw a campaign that mailed to 202,000 families and sent 12,500 letters, yielding 91 Republican and 84 Democratic votes for president and 40 Democratic votes for vice president, lowering the cost per vote to 162.79 dollars.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
John Connally
Texas
New Hampshire
Connally
Virginia
Richard Viguerie
Viguerie
Robert Stark
Defense rests in Hearst bank robbery trial
In San Francisco Attorney F. Lee Bailey told Judge that the defense rests after an 11 day presentation in Patricia Hearst's bank robbery case. The statement followed Bailey losing his second legal battle of the day as the defense concluded its case.
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San Francisco
UPD
F. Lee Bailey
Patricia Hearst
Bailey
U.S. District
Patty's drama inspires play at Antioch College
YELLOW SPRINGS Ohio UPI Miss Hearst is central in a three hour play nearing end of premiere run at Antioch College. The drama blends fact and fiction as audience members sit among actors in an SLA hideout while Patty Hearst is portrayed. Producers hope to tour it, while a San Francisco trial unfolds concurrently.
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Patty
SLA
Miss Hearst
San Francisco
Dunan
Hearst
Antioch
Cless
Antioch Theater Department
Oliver J. Carter
Carter
Hibernia Bank
FBI
Vernon Kipping
Miss Hall
Margaret Singer
University of California At Berkeley
Singer
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League of Women Voters Education Fund
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Center For National Policy Review
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