Damages awarded in flu shot paralysis case in Florida
A Monroe County jury awarded more than 12 million to Boyd Farnes of Marathon after paralysis from a 1989 flu shot. Damages total 13.5 million with 90 percent paid by defendants, citing Guillain Barré syndrome triggering. Filed against vaccine manufacturer seller and distributor.
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Key West
Fla
Monroe County
Marathon
Boyd Farnes
Ignatius Lester
Farnes
Floating bombs alarm Riverside police in Los Angeles suburb
Three crude bombs floated over Riverside in helium balloons with detonation devices attached. None exploded but could have detonated in air or on a housetop, leaving investigators without a motive or suspect. One device found on a residential street, another by a resident, and a third sighted in a tree before it blew away.
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Los Angeles Times
Riverside
Calif
Los Angeles
Robert Hanson
Riverside Police Department
Hanson
Race gap in mortgage lending persists despite crackdown
Washington AP report shows in 1993 blacks faced 34 percent loan rejections vs 14.6 percent for Asians and 15.3 percent for whites even after income adjustments. The data, from FFIEC, span banks savings institutions and credit unions, with varying rates by income and race.
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Washington
Clinton
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
Donald Ogilvie
American Bankers Association
KGB saw Sakharov as tool of Western spies in files
Newly released KGB documents portray Andrei Sakharov as psychologically unstable and easily led by his wife and foreign agents. The files claim Sakharov challenged Soviet policy and human rights abuses, while top Soviet leaders feared Western influence guiding his actions.
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New York
Andrei Sakharov
Kremlin
KGB
Sakharov
Communist Party Central Committee
Yuri Andropov
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Kathleen Brown
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Haley Barbour
Democratic National Committee
Eric Lander
Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research
Cambridge
Mass
Nature
FBI
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Armar
Marion
Iowa
Bell Jet Ranger
Inver Grove Heights
Minn
Kstp-Tv
E.A.C. Helicopters of
St. Paul
California
Tan
1St Ave
Blairs Ferry Rd
F Garden Center
Science Diet Pet Food Sale
Country Squire Mix
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Ralston Creek
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Coralville
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Westdale
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