VA funded hundreds of radiation tests at VA hospitals
Documents show the Veterans Administration sponsored hundreds of radiation related medical experiments starting in the late 1940s and kept the program secret as a potential source of service related claims. By 1955 annual radioisotope studies reached 399 and 560 in 1956, about 10 percent of VA research, with gradual expansion to 14 and then 48 hospitals hosting such work by 1951 and 1958 respectively.
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Newsday
Washington
Veterans Administration
Department of Veterans Affairs
Atomic Medicine Division
Rosalyn Yalow
Ken McKinnon
Clinton Uses Agility to Overcome Inexperience at NATO Summit
At the NATO summit in Belgium, President Clinton shows quick wit and diplomatic grace with Helmut Kohl. He helps ease tensions, guiding Europe to a more equal role within the alliance amid Bosnian policy and eastern enlargement debates.
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Clinton
NATO
Los Angeles Times
Russell
Belgium
Western Alliance
Helmut Kohl
Helmut
Brussels
Kohl
NATO Alliance
Epair
Arope
Europe
U.S
Branstad pushes CEBA doubling and prison expansion plan
Governor Branstad outlines a 1995 budget with a GAAP-balanced plan ending the fiscal year with a 24 million profit and more than 36 million in tax cuts. He doubles CEBA to 6 million, pursues enterprise zones, ends 30 percent tax on new machinery purchases, shifts ethanol funds to a value-added program, and backs a new 750 bed medium-security prison replacing the old facility with 600 beds added. The project could create up to 4.6 million in new economic activity.
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Vohs
Branstad
Clarinda
Branstad outlines $3.64 billion fiscal 1995 package
Gov. Terry Branstad plans a $3.64 billion fiscal 1995 spending package for the General Assembly. The proposal aims to erase the GAAP deficit by June 30 1995 while boosting K 12 funding by 40 million and regent universities by 26 million. Community colleges receive 4 million, economic development incentives double to 6 million with 4 million redirected to in state firms. Iowa Communications Network funding rises to 11 million. Public safety expands with 600 prison beds in a private public project at Clarinda.
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Branstad
General Assembly
Iowa
Clarinda
Terry Branstad
Regent Universities
Iowa Legislature Pursues Budget Discipline and Priorities
Iowa lawmakers stress balancing the state budget within existing spending limits as a core priority. Senate President Leonard Boswell and House Speaker Harold Van Maanen urge disciplined budgeting to secure Iowa’s economic future and position the state as well managed. Moments of reflection mark the opening amid losses of Luella Van Maanen and former Sen. Harry Slife and last year’s flooding.
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Senate
Leonard Boswell
D-Davis City
Iowa
House
Harold van
van Maanen
Luella
Harry Slife
Cedar Falls
Limited East European role at NATO summit amid Balkans crisis
Washington Post reports at a two day NATO summit leaders offered East European states a limited Partnership for Peace joining plan while addressing the Balkans war. Clinton warned air strikes could be used if Sarajevo shelling continued but stopped short of immediate full membership for Poland Hungary Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
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Washington Post Russels
Belgium
Bbuices
NATO
Balkans
Clinton
Russia
Sarajevo
Alliance
United States
North Atlantic Council
Poland
Hungary
Slovakia
Czech Republic
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First Avenue
Jim Miller
merman-Houdek
Quick Car
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Ivate
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