France limits public smoking with heavy fines in new law
Paris enforces a sweeping antismoking law covering elevators post offices banks schools and public venues. Fines range from 4.25 to 16.50 depending on location with France presenting among Europe's toughest penalties while promoting warning posters and education in schools. Public figures such as President Giscard d Estaing and premier Chirac faced different stances as the state tobacco monopoly supports production.
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Paris
Europe
Health Ministry
United States
France
Italy
Simone Vell
Milton Glaser
Apokceman
Jacques Chirac
Giscard d'Estaing
Evening With Edgar Allen Poe comes to Leisure Lake
Sally Wharton directs and Mark Cox handles sound for Leisure Lake production. The Halloween week show runs Thursday October 27 through Monday October 31 featuring three Poe classics and a special midnight performance on October 31.
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Brokenstraw
Sally Wharton
Mark Cox
Edgar Allen Poe
Leisure Lake
Sally
Mark
Martin
Saturday Mail Likely Saved by House Panel Action
Washington AP A House Post Office Committee vote to reorganize the Postal Service preserves Saturday deliveries and rural post offices with a roughly $2 billion authorization. The panel backed keeping services while broadening postmaster general appointment power and allowing congressional vetoes of rate hikes.
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Washington
House
House Post Office Committee
Postal Service
Charles H. Wilson
D-Calif
Wilson
Raid Ends Swiftly as Hostages Freed on German Flight
A rescued hostage recounted a seven minute commando strike that freed 86 passengers aboard a hijacked West German airliner. She said she sat by the emergency exit and heard nothing until someone fell onto them, shielding the group as the operation unfolded.
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Bonn
West Germany
Thas
Lufthansa
Somalia
Mogadishu
U.S
John L. Loughran
Loughran
Rights Act For Disabled Workshop In Erie
A 9:30 a.m. to 4:40 p.m. workshop on Section 504 the civil rights act for disabled persons will be held Saturday at the Dr. Gertrude A Barber Center 136 East Avenue Erie. Open to consumers and advocates from nine counties in Pennsylvania the session covers education employment health care recreation and other services and explains how to obtain services under Section 504.
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Gertrude A. Barber
East Avenue
Erie
Crawford
Mercer
Lawrence
Venango
Clarion
Jefferson
Forest
Warren
McKean
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Missionaries To Speak At CMA Church
The Corry Christian and Missionary Alliance Church hosts a fall missionary convention from tomorrow through Sunday. Miss Anna Sontra, a missionary since 1943 to Sioux and other tribes in North Dakota Minnesota and Montana, speaks Thursday and Friday at 7 30 p.m. She works at Mokahum Tatian Bible School in Gass Lake Minnesota coordinating theological education by extension. Rev Robert McNeel with 18 years of Viet Nam service and Alliance Church representation in Manila speaks Saturday 7 30 p.m. and Sunday 10 45 a.m. All services are at the church corner West Washington and Maple avenues. The public is invited.
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Corry
Alliance Church
Manila
McNeel
Philippines
West Washington Street
Maple Avenue
William Hazlett
Prescription Costs Show Varied 1973 Burden
Washington AP reports the 1973 average American spent 23.80 on prescription medicines with elder Americans paying much more. Out of pocket expenses rose from 9.10 for under 17 to 61.40 for 65 and older. Government survey notes 1.2 billion prescriptions were filled, averaging 5.6 per person and 4.80 per prescription. The 23.60 figure excludes insurance payments.
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Washington
National Health Survey
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