Health care politics clash as 1994 reform looms
Washington reports frame the health reform battle as a clash between Clinton's plan for universal coverage and Republican opposition. Gingrich calls it big government and big tax, while Gephardt warns Republicans would have faced harsh fate for blocking Social Security and Medicare. Voters face a pivotal election with 35 Senate seats and a newly composed House at stake, shaping Clinton's final years amid an anti incumbency mood.
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Washington
Clinton
House
Newt Gingrich
Richard Gephardt
Congress
White House
Senate
House of Representatives
Geoffrey Garin
UAW Strikes Caterpillar At Five Plants Across Illinois
UAW calls five Illinois plants, plus operations in Denver and York, Pa, to strike over a three year pact dispute. About 9,800 workers in Illinois walked off, with 13,300 total union members idle, while some Peoria area workers crossed picket lines. The stock fell, and the sides trade barbs over unfair labor practices and replacement workers.
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East Peoria
Lit
Caterpillar Inc
United Auto Workers
Illinois
Denver
York
Decatur
Mapleton
Mossville
Pontiac
Jerry Brust
Caterpillar
Peoria
Peart's
Larry Solomon
UAW
Wall Street
FDA finds secret high nicotine tobacco used in light cigarettes
FDA investigators traced Brown & Williamson to a genetically altered tobacco plant named Y-1 developed in Brazil and secretly bred to produce nicotine levels up to 6.2 percent. The company halted patent filings and seed storage after the probe, while officials question whether executives misled Congress about nicotine manipulation.
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Washington
Food and Drug
David Kessler
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co
FDA
Henry Waxman
D-Calif
B&w
U.S
National Seed Storage Laboratory
Kessler
Waxman
Energy and Commerce Health
Tom Fitzgerald
Louisville
Ucts
Tobacco Companies
Congress
Ron Wyden
D-Ore
Brazil
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Usda Abon
Baw
Discharged airman guns down four at Fairchild Base
Six weeks after his discharge for emotional problems Dean A Mellberg used an assault rifle to kill four people including two therapists in the base hospital at Fairchild Air Force Base. He wounded 23 others in a five minute rampage before being shot by a military policeman in the parking lot.
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Spokane
Wash
Dean A. Mellberg
Fairchild Air Force Base
Mellberg
Gordon Fagras
Spokane County
John Goldman
Orson Lee
Lee
Fairchild
William Brooks
Seattle Times
Lois Mellberg
Lansing
Mich
Brooks
Cannon Air Force Base
New Mexico
Occidental settles Love Canal suit for 98 million
Occidental Chemical Corp agrees to pay 98 million to settle New York state claims over the Love Canal toxic mess. The 14 year fight sought nearly 630 million in cleanup costs. Judge John Curtin signaled likely approval as Lois Gibbs criticized the deal as insufficient punishment for the company.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Occidental Chemical Corp
Love Canal
Occidental and
New York
Niagara Falls
U.S
John Curtin
Curtin
Occidental
Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corp
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Fairchild Air Base
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Health Watch
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West Virginia Graduate College
Princeton Community Hospital
School of Business
P. O. Box
Institute
Lois Gibbs
Gibbs
Ai Weems
Vas
AAA
First National Bank Learning Center
Federal Street
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