Rising heroin use linked to Mexican brown supply across U.S.
The AP reports a nationwide uptick in heroin addiction after a decline, driven by cheap Mexican brown heroin smuggled in unlikely disguises. DEA notes pounds slip through undetected. doctors warn brown withdrawal is harsher than white.
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Double Dippers in Congress Cost Taxpayers $600 Million
Sen. Barry Goldwater turns over his monthly military pension to charity and Rep. Charles Bennett returns veteran disability benefits. The National Taxpayers Union lists 38 double dippers in Congress, totaling about 600 million dollars annually, with a 1964 law allowing such dual compensation.
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Remember When Children Of Famous Grew Up
The nation now watches the offspring of famous parents as central figures. Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr., Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Caroline of Monaco, Liza Minnelli, and Desi Arnaz Jr. have careers and public lives that echo their parents' fame. A shift from child stars to adult public figures highlights shifts in media focus and celebrity culture.
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Average Housewife's Labor Valued At $5,500 Yearly
Social Security researchers estimate an average US housewife would earn about $5,500 annually at prevailing wages for daily home chores. The 1972 study valued younger wives higher, with figures rising to around $6,400 in their 20s and 30s, declining with age, based on time-motion data and 1972 wage rates.
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Gregory Peck returns as star in The Birthmark
After a producing break Gregory Peck resumes screen work in The Birthmark for 20th Century Fox. He will portray the U.S. ambassador to England in David Seltzer’s screenplay directed by Richard Donner with filming in London Jerusalem and Rome beginning October 20. NBC News plans a January 6 full evening program American Foreign Policy in a Changing World outlining U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s the current world landscape and domestic policy debates. Alvin Childress remains active co starring in The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings joining Billy Dee Williams James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor in Universal’s film. Childress previously starred in Savage Rhythm and Day of the Locust.
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