Sinai task force draws 1250 applicants for 200 monitor posts
About 1250 Americans wrote or called to join the 200man Sinai Desert monitoring unit tasked with observing Israeli and Egyptian military moves in the UN buffer zone. Some applied via congressmen, others sent letters outlining qualifications as 20 to 30 daily inquiries to the State Department. Ford requested 50 million dollars in the foreign aid bill to fund the unit in fiscal 1976.
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Binai
State Department
Congress
Sinai Desert
Egypt
Israel
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
Jack H. Vaughan
Inter- American Affairs
Panama
Colombia
Peace Corps
Ford
Judge bars film pending Lynette Fromme trial
A federal judge refused the ACLU bid to overturn a ruling banning the film Mans on in much of Northern California until after jury selection for Lynette Fromme. The ban, affecting 26 counties, aims to protect Fromme’s right to a fair speedy trial. Jury selection starts Tuesday and will take about three days. President Ford will answer questions from Fromme’s cocounsel and prosecutors on Saturday in Washington.
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Calif
UPI
American Civil Liberties Union
Manson
California
Lynette Fromme
ACLU
U.S. District Court
Thomas J. MacBride
Miss Fromme
UCLU
Brent Barnhart
MacBride
Ford
Cocounsel
John Virgo
Washington
First Israeli-bound ship halted at Suez Canal entry
The Greek freighter Olympos aimed to sail to Israel with about 8,000 tons of cement from Europe to Eilat, but will be held until Saturday due to convoy rules. Only two Israel-bound ships have used the canal since 1948, last in 1959, under the Sinai accord permitting limited non weapons cargoes.
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Suez Canal
Israel
Suez Canal Authority
Ismailia
Olympos
Port Said
Authority
Ahmed Abdel-Hamid Ammar
Ammar
Europe
Eilat
Sinai
Nuclear risk from reactors lower than car risks
A government NRC study concludes the worst nuclear plant disaster would cause far fewer deaths than car crashes yet more cancer and genetic damage. With 100 light water reactors by 1980, the annual fatality risk near a plant is about two, far below risks from lightning, electrocution, fires, falls, or car wrecks.
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UPI
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
U.S
United States
High Medicaid earnings reach over $100000 for 207 doctors
Washington reports 207 doctors earned more than $100,000 from Medicaid last year for treating low income patients. HEW said 99,117 doctors billed in 1974, with the top payer at $451,156 to a New York physician. Names and addresses to be publicly released.
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Mississippi
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Ohio
Oklahoma
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Wisconsin
New York State
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HEW
New York Daily News
Jaws and Teeth Unearthed in Tanzania Push Back Human Origin
Dr Mary Leakey reports fossils in Laetolis Tanzania dating to about 3.75 million years ago that place true humans in East Africa earlier than previously believed. The finds include jaws and teeth from at least 11 individuals, linking them to homo and distinguishing them from australopithecus.
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N.Y
Tanzania
Mary Leakey
Leakey
Laetolis
Olduvai Gorge
Leakeys
Louis
Olduvai
Garniss H. Curtis
University of California At Berkeley
Ethiopia
Donald Carl Johanson
Case-Western Reserve University
Kenya
Richard Leakey
Louis and
Mary
F. Clark Howell
Berkeley
East Africa
National Geographic Society
Mystery of Midnight Mary Haunts Evergreen Cemetery
In New Haven Connecticut a Halloween tale circles Evergreen Cemetery where a pink granite grave marker is said to awaken a spirit named Midnight Mary at midnight. Legends tell of a horse sinking into earth, a vigil by a tomb, and a coffin that seemed to plead in death. The epitaph warns that people will be troubled at midnight and pass away.
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New Haven
Mary
Refugees depart Pendleton camp as numbers dwindle
Marines closed Camp Pendleton California ending a six month refugee program that admitted 50418 southeast Asians. 597 returned home while about 19000 stayed in California. 165 babies born and eight deaths occurred as families scattered to new homes and jobs across the nation.
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Calif
UPI
South Vietnam
Los Angeles
Nick Thorne
State Department
Pendleton
Fort Chaffee
Ark
Namese
Guam
Saigon
California
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