Tougher penalties for fraud in medicare programs
President Carter signed a law with felony penalties up to 26000 dollars and five years in prison for health care providers who defraud Medicare and Medicaid, aimed at cutting about 1 billion dollars in annual waste and fraud. The act also authorizes monitoring by Professional Standards and Review Organizations and expands FBI auditing training to 350 agents. It delays a related state penalty review until December 1977.
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White House
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D-Fla
House
Griffin Bell
FBI
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Panel deadlocks on ban targeting low mileage cars
Washington United Press International reports a House Senate conference panel failed to resolve disputes over an outright ban on cars with the lowest gas mileage. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum urged the measure backed by President Carter, while House members feared auto-industry harm and declined to advance it.
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UPT
House-Senate
Howard Metzenbaum
Ohio
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House
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Nebraska Weather Summary From United Press Internations
Sunny skies in Nebraska with mid morning clarity and patchy clouds in eastern areas. Highs ranged from the 40s to 70s across cities like Norfolk Scottsbluff and Omaha Pypley Field with lows in the 30s to 40s as a high pressure system extended from Kansas guiding mostly clear skies into Wednesday.
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North Platte
Omaha
Pypley Field
Norfolk
Scottsbluff
Kansas
Group takes over Statue of Liberty
An unarmed Puerto Rican nationalist group seized the Statue of Liberty, forcing hundreds of tourists to flee. About 30 demonstrators entered the pedestal, raising signage for Puerto Rican independence, while filming Crews and film cast members were inside. Police barred reporters from accessing Liberty Island.
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UPI
Statue of Liberty
Boyvie
National Park Service
Liberty Island
Matilda
Robert Mitchum
Elliot Gould
Sharon Talbot
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Battery Park
Manhattan
U.S
House of Representatives
Carter
Kruger ready for inquest on Biko death in South Africa
Police Minister Kruger said a preliminary inquiry into Steve Biko's death is complete and an inquest may proceed. In parallel, security forces detained 13 blacks in Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg, including Nisilist Moremi, amid widespread protests and government crackdowns across the Eastern Cape and other regions.
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Biko
Jonannesburg
South Africa
UPT
Jimmy Kruger
Steve Biko
Uwy
Port Elizabeth
Johannesburg
Nisilist Moremi
The
Christian Institute
Soweto
Col
Piet Goosen
Eastern Cape
New Brighton
Association For Science and ‘Technology
Nune Myoluke
Beeld
Bike
Pretoria
Bird
Queenstown
King Williams Town
Dawid Kriel
Carter Underlines Conference Route on Energy Bill Fight
President Carter urged lawmakers to send the energy bill to conference with the House version, seeking a quick floor exit. Senate liberals led by Henry Jackson push to block a $40 billion tax credit and incentive plan while critics call the package wasteful and skewed toward industry giants.
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UPI
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Carter
Henry Jackson
F Wash
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Conference Committee
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House
Senate Committee
Russell Long
Thomas O'Neill
Robert Byrd
Kennedy
UAE minister killed in Abu Dhabi gun attack on Khaddam
Gunman shoots United Arab Emirates State Minister Saif bin Said al Ghobash in Abu Dhabi during an assault on Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. Hostages held, a parked Czechoslovak plane used as refuge. after negotiations, gunman surrenders and hostages are freed. Earlier reports said multiple gunmen. Khaddam cuts tour and returns to Syria.
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Lebanon
UPL
United Arab Emirates
Abdel Halim Khaddam
Abu Dhabi
Khaddam
Ghobash
Damascus
Syria
Qatar
Post Office to Have New Counter Hours
Peshwasler Yorn Zim Herman announced today the Columbus Post Office will start a new service counter schedule effective Saturday Oct 29. The counter will be open 8 a.m. to 4 40 p.m. Monday through Friday and 6 a.m. to 1 30 p.m. Saturday for receiving requests for earlier opening. The lobby stays open 24 hours daily with a stamp vending machine scales and postage info for customers after the service counter closes.
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Peshwasler Yorn
Zim ‘Herman
Columbus
Columus Post Office
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