Italy Recognizes Communist China After Cabinet Vote
Italy, a NATO member, formally recognizes Communist China after a cabinet meeting ratified a Paris agreement ending 21 months of talks. Nationalist diplomats in Rome and Milan prepare to depart for Formosa, with Rome closing the Nationalist embassy and Milan’s consulate. The move is not expected to affect Vatican relations or Formosa trade, and Italy follows Britain France Canada the Netherlands Norway and Denmark in recognizing Beijing.
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Rome
Italy
Mediterranean
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
China
U.S
Peking
Paris
Milan
Formosa
Taipei
Vatican
Chiang Kai-shek
Holy See
Canada
Ottawa
Britain
France
Netherlands
Norway
Denmark
Stockholm
Smithsonian to determine identity of unidentified body
The Smithsonian Institution will study a body found four miles away by a hunter to determine age, death timing, and nationality after removal from the scene. Warren County State Police and sheriff's deputies seek clues while awaiting results, with initial details describing a white man about five feet seven, weighing 140 to 150 pounds, plus a Bulova watch, brown rimmed glasses, and a black ball point pen. A separate note reports police removing 33 illegal slot machines from a Helena shop on Last Chance Gulch when an unidentified woman interacted with a quarter machine.
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State Police
Warren County Sheriffs Department
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Jack Krupey
Warren State Police
Journal Today
Smithsonian
Krupey
Washington Institution
Sheriff's Department
Helena
Mont
Jack Williams
Williamn
Last Chance Gulch
Overdose disease linked to meth sparks long term care need
Los Angeles researchers say heavy meth use causes a fatal arterial disease in teens and young adults. The eight member USC LA study notes 14 cases with four deaths and expands to 30 cases in a group of 60 drug users. They warn most patients will require long term therapy, stressing cost and care shift. Methamphetamine or combined use with LSD and heroin triggers the disease, unlike heroin or barbiturates alone.
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Los Angeles
B. Phillip Citron
Los Angeles County University of Southern California
Citron
New England Journal of Medicine
Medical Journal
Slain Nurses Called Excellent Likable Juniors in Antiwar Circle
New York AP reports two 19 year old Queensboro Community College nursing students Mary Ellen Lenihan and June P. Eberlin were described as excellent and likeable and active in the antiwar movement. They left New York October 24 for a Washington antiwar meeting and were found slain in a McConnellsburg Pennsylvania highway ditch. Friends recall their peace advocacy and vegetarianism. both planned to take state nursing boards next June. Police issued a search alarm for a young man linked to a garage attack near the discovery site.
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New York
McConnellsburg
Gloria Leigh
Mary Ellen Lenihan
June P. Eberlin
Queensboro Community College
Vietnam
Washington
Shirley Haile
Thomas Lenihan
Laurelton
Queens
Mary Ellen
Lenihan
Eberlins
June
Queensboro
Long Island Jewish Hospital
Pennsylvania
Lice Infests 60 Students At IUP
Indiana Pa AP Dr William Hassler president of Indiana University of Pennsylvania says about 60 students were found infested with lice and the situation is under control with special disinfectants. The issue came to light after he ordered an investigation into rumors on the 6500 student campus. Seven dormitories were sprayed and special laundry soap and shampoo handed out.
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Indiana, Pa
William Hassler
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Hassler
Question Trip After Surgeon Found Slain
Bucks County oral surgeon Dr. Richard C. Mears Jr. was found shot to death at his Point Pleasant summer home near Doylestown. Police traced his car to Center City where three men were held for questioning. coroner says death occurred about four hours earlier, shot from behind in chest or neck.
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Doylestown
Bucks County
Here
Richard C. Mears Jr
Plumsteadville
Philadelphia
Center City
Samuel Willard
Mears
U. S. launches spy satellites to watch Soviet missiles
The Air Force launched a secret Titan 3 rocket from Cape Kennedy at 5 40 am EST to place an experimental satellite in a near stationary orbit about 24000 miles above the Pacific. The device is designed to give a 30 minute warning of a long range attack by the Soviet Union or Red China, with infrared sensors to detect rocket exhaust. Newsmen were barred from viewing the launch for the first time in 15 Titan 3 launches.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Air Force
United States
Soviet Union
Red China
U.S
Cape
Percy
Pacific Ocean
Pentagon
Iftaff
Pacific
Itotagans
Southeast Asia
Shapp seeks special session to tackle PA budget crisis
Governor-elect Milton Shapp proposes a special session of the new Pennsylvania General Assembly on December 1 to approve a plan costing about half a billion dollars to keep state operations running. He backs revenue increases, a potential income tax, and tax reform including sales tax adjustments and corporate tax changes.
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Philadelphia
Pennnsylvania
Milton Shapp
Raymond Shafer
Shapp
Commonwealth
Herbert Fineman
Fineman
Robert Casey
Grace Sloan
Democratic State Committee
John Scales
Ernest Kline
House
K. Leroy Irvis
James Prendergast
Senate
Benjamin Donolow
Martin Mullen
Martin Murray
Shafer
General Assembly
State Senate
Final Vote Tally Shows Heavy Off-Year Turnout
Washington AP reports that unofficial totals show a large turnout for an off-year election, with $6,148,618 counted so far and comparisons to past totals. Turnout patterns mirror previous years, though not reaching presidential year levels, as absentee ballots and partial counts continue.
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Washington
Associated Press
Republican National Committee
U.S
Senate
Florida
Texas
Tennessee
Ohio
Michigan
California
New York
Ilinois
Louisiana
Heroin Laced Halloween Candy Kills 5 Year Old Boy
DETROIT AP A 5 year old boy Kevin Toston died after eating Halloween candy containing heroin three days after trick or treating with brothers Glendarrell 12 and Paul 15. His mother Ida Foster 31 described sorting candy and discarding suspicious wrappers and apples. A drug test found heroin traces in the candy. Authorities warn of dangers during Halloween.
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Detroit
Kevin Toston
Glendarrell
Paul
West Side
Ida Foster
Kevin
Girl Demonstrates Realism in Drug Education Kit
Corry Area High School student Linda Daniels holds a plastic replica of a marijuana plant in a kit designed for drug abuse education. The set includes a marijuana water pellet that releases the odor when burned. Police Chief Charles Luton distributes the kits to clubs and school groups.
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Corry Area High
Linda Daniels
Charles Luton
Pryor
Thieves Target Penn Central Again In Rail Car Thefts
Police investigate a second Penn Central theft after light bulbs and black powder from St Marys were taken from a rear shack at East Main Street plastics plant. Officers link both incidents to youths, as Penn Central Officials note powder may have come from a boxcar at Corry Foam Products siding.
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Penn Central
Eastman
East Main Street
Paul Campbell
Erie County Plastics Co
Campbell
East Main
Stackpole Carbon Co
St. Marys
Corry Foam Products
Shady Avenue
Ae Plastic
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