Quadraplegic battles red tape over aid eligibility
Dave Bowman, a 41 year old quadraplegic from San Lorenzo, has worked 12 years to earn money teaching art but now earns about 700 a month and falls between aid rules. If he earns more than 200 monthly, he loses state and federal aid. if he stops working, aid would resume. The system leaves him unable to fully support himself while needing care.
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Pat Craig
Hayward
Dave Bowman
Bowman
San Lorenzo
West Virginia
Eric Robbins
Dave
Via
Food pushes up wholesale prices in November rise
Washington reported a 0.7 percent rise in the Labor Department Wholesale Price Index for November, the second large monthly increase. The gain was driven by higher prices in the farm and foods sectors with processed foods and feeds up 1.7 percent while industrial and finished goods rose more modestly. Prices were higher for grains vegetables seeds greens and cattle, with the index showing annual inflation around 6 percent according to officials. The White House expects inflation not to accelerate rapidly in coming months.
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Washington
UPL
Labor Department
Agricults
Saidoe
White House
FBI files back lone gunman theory
Secret FBI files reviewed by the Warren Commission show no foreign or domestic conspiracy ties in Kennedy’s assassination. Hoover initially explored conspiracies but later testified no evidence supported them. The 49,001 pages revealed extensive interviews and tips, all pursued to test the lone gunman conclusion.
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Washington
UPI
FBI
Warren Commission
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
J. Edgar Hoover
Oswald
White House
Strote
Kennedy
Hoover
Commission
Laser phonograph promises high fidelity by laser beam
Dor some scratchy records a California technician reveals a laser based record player using a one fifteen thousandth inch thick light beam to read grooves. The system, requiring mirrors and two photoelectric sensors, claims no wear on records and unlimited frequency response up to millions of vibrations per second. Heine holds a patent and says a broken record can be rejoined for playback.
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San Francisco
UPI
Dor
Pato Alto
Wasiar K. Heine
Heine
Salina
Rand
Heing
Bud
Portugal Socialist government falls after budget crisis
Portugal's minority Socialist government collapses as opposition centers unite to vote down the administration led by Prime Minister Mario Soares. Soares resigns, president Ramalho Eanes may form a new government or dissolve the assembly for new elections amid a 1.2 billion balance of payments deficit, 3 percent inflation, 16 percent unemployment and food shortages. Communist, Social Democrat and Center Democrat parties join in opposition after interim talks with Soares fail to yield concessions. Soares, who celebrated his 58th birthday, defends his 17 months in power and rejects any left or right alliance.
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Mario Soares
Portugal
Soares
Antonio Ramalho Eanes
Assembly
Social Democrats
Center Democrats
Morenos grisly autopsy evidence unsettles courtroom
Pathologist Allan McNie testified that two California State University officers slain on campus May 1 died of gunshot wounds with no signs of alcohol drugs or personal safety related trauma. Juror fainted briefly prompting a recess as McNie described bullet entrance wounds and body markings while relatives watched.
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Lynn Hoff
Oakl
Allan McNie
California State University
Heyas
Hiena
Cout Teil Ortigers
Oakland
Institute of Forensic Sciences
Henney
Hart
Ipsa Pm
Id Moreno
McNie
Pronse
Afterlife death dispute ends in suicide in Redlands
REDLANDS, UP I. A 28 year old coffee shop waitress killed herself during an argument over afterlife reincarnation to prove sincerity. Eldon McCorkhill, 33, a college student, claimed he handed her a pistol and urged her to shoot herself to prove she would return in another form. He says she shot herself. he is held for investigation of murder and possible aiding a death by own action under a rarely used state law.
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Redlands
UPI
Eldon McCorkhill
Sharif
Linda June Cummings
Nis Cummings
Hersalf
McCorkhill
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Uader
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Moreno
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