Aid Seen for Poor in Fuel Cost Plan
The House approved a 1.35 billion fuel aid package for low income households to help cover winter heating costs. About 4 million SSI checks go out in January averaging 100 dollars per person and 200 per family. States would use 800 million to fund aid for families under 125 percent of the poverty line.
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Los Angeles
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Senate approves aid program for handicapped adoptive parents
The Senate voted 77 to 13 to fund federal aid for parents who adopt children with mental or physical disabilities, despite Senator McClure’s contention that it puts a price on love. In Hawaii, all public schools will close as 8,000 public workers strike over wages, delaying cleaning and health orders.
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Senate
James McClure
Ridaho
Emo
McClure
Honolulu
Hawaii
Charles Clark
State Department of Health
Department of Education
WHO declares world free of smallpox in historic victory
In a global declaration from Nairobi, Kenya, the World Health Organization says smallpox has been crushed and will not return. Director General Halfdan Mahler calls it one of the treacherous diseases ever known and notes the last non lab case was diagnosed two years ago in Somalia.
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World Health Organization
Halfdan Mahler
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Octuplets May Leave Hospital as One Child Improves
In Naples Italy doctors report two surviving octuplets born August 16 to Pasqualina Chianese are out of danger. Silvana, the healthier twin now weighs about 4 pounds 4 ounces and is removed from the incubator. Anna remains in care but shows improvement. The case entered a legal pause as three judges halted the trial after the absence of a key defendant, with no resumption date set and defense urging postponement over abortion disputes.
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Italy
Pasqualina Chianese
Silvana
Anna
San Paolo Hospital
Basque Catalan Voters Endorse Limited Autonomy
In northern Basque regions 88 percent backed home rule in three Basque provinces and about 80 percent approved in Catalonia. Turnout neared 60 percent in both areas despite steady drizzle as officials prepared final results. Basque separatists signaled no move to halt their guerrilla war for full independence.
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Madrid
Spain
Interior Ministry
Abortion Trial in Bilbao Suspended as Defendant Fails to Appear
The trial of 11 Spanish women charged with abortion acts was halted indefinitely in Bilbao after one defendant did not show up. Demonstrations by more than 2,000 women gathered outside the criminal court in the Basque region amid the case.
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Bilbao
Spain
Aid to Cambodia Clears House for 30 Million $ U S Help
The House approved a $30 million U S contribution to Cambodia by a 362 to 10 vote and sent the measure to the Senate. Rep Stephen J Solarz urged swift passage as the aid aims to prevent starvation among Cambodians.
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Washington
U.S
Congress
House
Senate
Cambodia
Stephen J. Solarz
D-N.y
Icebergs by Church sells for 2.5 million at Sotheby auction
A long missing 1861 Frederic Edwin Church canvas titled Icebergs sold for 2.5 million dollars at Sotheby Parke Bennet in London to an anonymous American collector. The 64 by 112 inch work had hung at Rose Hill estate in Manchester, England since 1863 and later moved to fund a boys home. King George III was crowned on this date in 1760.
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New York
Frederic Edwin Church
Sotheby Parke Bennet
Church
Rose Hill
Manchester
England
Edward William Watkin
London
South Africa denies nuclear test reports
South Africa dismissed US intelligence claims of a nuclear device test as nonsense. Foreign Minister Botha mocked the notion, while Armscor reported SA as the hemisphere's largest arms producer amid US embargo pressure.
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Pieter Botha
Armscor
P.G. Marais
U.S
Vermont Utility Withdraws Seabrook Investment
Green Mountain Power Corp the second largest Vermont utility abandons a planned 26 million dollar stake in Seabrook New Hampshire nuclear plant after the Vermont Public Service Board bans construction-work-in-progress charges. Central Vermont Public Service also dropped out leaving the plant’s principal sponsor PSNH.
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Vermont
Seabrook
N.H
Peter McTague
Green Mountain Power Corp
Vermont Public Service Board
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Green Mountain
Central Vermont
Public Service
The
Public Service Co
New Hampshire
FDA orders brewers to nearly eliminate nitrosamines in beer
The FDA gives brewers until Jan 1 to virtually eliminate nitrosamines from beer amid tests showing the carcinogen in some scotch brands at trace levels. A cooler drying flame and added sulfur reduce formation. over 80 percent of U S beer will use the new method next month. No consumer change in beer or scotch consumption is advised.
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UPI
Food and Drug Administration
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Jere Govan
U.S
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