Vinyl Chloride Victim Fights For Life In West Virginia
Virgil Christian a 32 year veteran of Union Carbide in Charleston battles angiosarcoma linked to vinyl chloride. Two coworkers died. Christian travels to NIH for chemotherapy while EPA proposes rules to cut 90 percent of vinyl chloride emissions. West Virginia plants including Union Carbide South Charleston and Pantasote Point Pleasant face new costs and draft limits of around 10 parts per million. Christian remains hopeful, plans retirement, and notes support from his employer with medical bills and expenses covered.
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Christian
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National Institutes of Health
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Russell Train
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South Charleston
Pantasote Co
Point Pleasant
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Arthur Ryrholm
NATO Faces 1976 Strains Over Missiles and Angola
NATO's Brussels leaders await 1976 tests as intercontinental nuclear missile tensions and the Angola war threaten alliance unity. United States led talks with the Soviet Union while European nations fear oil disruption and domestic leftist challenges. Dissension grows over Helsinki accords and Spain's future, with Greece Turkey, Britain Iceland friction and Italy leaning left as inflation bites. Bruce, the U.S. rep on the North Atlantic Council, tees off a leadership transition at year end.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Feete
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Cape of Good Hope
Wit
Soviet Union
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Finland
Tion
General Dynamics
David Bruce
U.S
North Atlantic Council
Marriage Trends Show More Single Living Adults in 1970s
Washington AP reports Census Bureau findings on marital status and living arrangements in the first half of the 1970s. More 25 to 34 year olds remain single, divorces rise, and more families are headed by women with increased children living with a single parent. The study notes shifts in living away from parental homes and in dual-parent households.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Bureau
Arthur Norton
Saco Fire Department Box and Still Alarm Totals
Saco firefighters responded to seven box alarms eight false alarms and 34 still alarms during December. The department handled one chimney fire one wall fire two stove fires 11 car accidents one grass fire one mattress fire four dump fires three electrical fires one car fire and nine complaints. The month included 71 ambulance calls.
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Saco
40000 Americans Have Say On Yosemite Future
The National Park Service will mail 40000 residents a 33 page booklet and four large worksheets to gather public input on hundreds of park development options for Yosemite National Park. The process, part of a master development plan, follows a previous rejected proposal and aims to produce an environmental impact statement and a final plan possibly in 1977, with funding awaited from Congress years later.
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Yosemite National Park
Calif
Yosemite
National Park Service
Congress
Music Corporation of America
Yosemite Park & Curry Co
Curry Village
The
Sierra Club
Friends of the Earth
Park Service
Glacier Point
Badger Pass
Badger
Fox
Farming Giant Tops U S Industry With 531 Billion Assets
The agriculture sector is declared the nation’s largest industry with assets totaling 531 billion dollars, about 60 percent of all manufacturing corporations, per the Department of Agriculture.
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Department of Agriculture
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