Embattled Tobacco Faces U S Senate Health Measures
In Raleigh the Flue-Cured Tobacco Stabilization Corporation hears Rep. Dan Daniel warn of the industry’s greatest challenges amid Kennedy Hart tax proposals aiming to curb smoking and tar content. Critics say the plan could harm farmers. supporters insist on safer tobacco.
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House of Representatives
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Dawson Mathis
D-Ga
Kennedy-Hart
Kennedy
Hart
Senator Kennedy
South
Congress
Raleigh
The Bigger They Are. End of CUNY catapulted
The piece argues the City University of New York, the nation’s largest municipal university system, must close due to long running deficits. It notes 250,000 students and 16,000 faculty would be affected, with May overspending at $15 million, and compares the crisis to other cities facing similar fiscal strain on costly municipal institutions.
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City University of New York
CUNY
Professional Staff Congress
Robert Kibbee
City of
New York
Kibbee
Philadelphia
New York City
Health insurance debate resurfaces as Nader presses candidates
M Stanton Evans notes health care reform resurges after a dormant year. Ralph Nader criticizes candidates for neglecting health care issues. The Council on Wage and Price Stability urges policy reassessment and warns rising costs pose a major public policy problem for the nation. The report highlights physician driven service and patient passivity, framing costs in broader systemic terms.
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Washington
Ralph Nader
Council On
Council
Health care costs rise from government in large medical spend surge
A health policy report argues that the surge in medical costs stems from federal involvement rather than doctors. From 1965 to 1975 direct payments rose 73.5 percent, private insurance 199.8 percent, and state local spending 1722 percent, with federal per capita outlays up 513.6 percent due to Medicare and Medicaid. Government health care spending grew 484 percent from 7 billion to 0.9 billion, financing 39.7 percent of personal health care in 1975 and 35 percent of hospital expenditures, fueling demand, price inflation, overutilization, and cost reimbursement incentives for hospitals.
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Council
Goldwater Denounces Reagan Over Panama Canal Issue
John Chamberlain notes Goldwater's sharp rebuke of Reagan's stance on Secretary of State Kissinger's maneuvers to "give the Panama Canal away" to a Panamanian ally, contrasting with Goldwater's 1962 opposition to ceding sovereign Canal Zone rights.
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Barry Goldwater
Ronald Reagan
State Kissinger
Panama Canal
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Canal Zone
Goldwater
Kissinger
West
Mozambique
Ian Smith
Rhodesia
The Cost Of Regulatory Agencies Wrecking the Wallet
Ralph de Toledano, in a Washington column, argues regulatory agencies impose a hidden tax on taxpayers and consumers. He cites delays at ICC and FCC, GM and Goodyear compliance costs, plus rising prices from mandated safety and environmental measures, urging curbs or sunset provisions on agencies.
Wild horses pose threat to western wildlife and range
Don Oakley notes the 1971 Wild Horse and Burro Act protected mustangs but unchecked populations now strain habitat. Bureau of Land Management discusses high roundup costs, injuries, and seeks legal changes to allow helicopters for trapping and private transfer to curb losses and protect endangered bighorn habitat.
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The
Wildlife Management Institute
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau
Oregon
BLM
Unpopular Senator Hope Fades Across Nation
Senator Soaper Washington DC faces poor national support amid chatter that a known Redskins fan cannot win major office. Aunt Phoebe moves houseplants out of earshot after the Family Hour ends on television.
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Phoebe
Coral Encrusts Sunken Warships Off Truk In WWII Reef Study
Marine biologist Sylvia Earle and photographer Al Giddings dive on sunken Japanese ships at Truk to study coral growth patterns and reef formation. They tag corals, catalog new species, and note the wrecks as artificial reefs offering clues to growth rates and marine ecosystems.
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South Pacific
Truk
Sylvia A. Earle
National Geographic
Earle
al Giddings
Great Lameshur Bay
Virgin Islands
Giddings
Atlantic
Bermuda
Peter Benchley
Trukese
Kimino Aisek
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