Treatment Urged For Moderate High Blood Pressure Patients
VA heart specialist Dr. Edward Freis says new five year study data across 380 male patients at 16 VA hospitals show that standard high blood pressure drugs reduce death rates and prevent serious complications in mild and moderate cases. He urges use of available drugs for fixed hypertension and diastolic 105 or higher, noting risks of undertreatment and calling for broader physician adoption.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Edward Freis
Freis
Washington, D.C., VA
United States
Navy Faces Shortage of Qualified Black Officers
Washington AP reports the Navy's officer corps remains overwhelmingly white with fewer than 1 percent of its 80 000 officers black. Only 539 black officers have ranks above ensign, despite three years of MORE and minority affairs efforts to recruit from ghettos and change the service image.
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Navy Officer Corps
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Robert L. Toney
Toney
Melvin Patridge
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Nixon Sparks Spending Feud Over Congressional Budget
President Nixon attacks congressional spending as an unnecessary leakage of two million dollars a day. House Speaker McCormack replies that Congress is saving taxpayers money by reordering priorities and contrasts this with Nixon’s economic record.
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Nixon
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House
John W. McCormack
Capitol Hill
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McCormack
Uruguay Shifts Tactics in Seach for Guerrilla Kidnappers
Uruguayan troopens and police switch from neighborhood sweeps to raids on suspected Tupamaro hideouts while hunting for American agronomist Claude L Fly and Brazilian Consul Aloysio Gomide. Officials caution about misdirections as notes from kidnappers surface in Porto Alegre.
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Aes
Claude L. Fly
Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide
Tupamaro
Fly
Dias Gomide
Tupamaros
Dan. A. Mit
Irione
Richmond
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Uruguyan
Fort Collins
Colo
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Mitrione
Porto Alegre
Brazil
Winston Board Accepts School Desegregation Plan
The Winston-Salem Forsyth County school board voted 6 to 2 to implement a desegregation plan ordered by U S District Judge Eugene A Gordon. The plan clusters eight elementary schools and requires bus transportation beginning in nine days with state owned buses to be provided. The action followed an appeal to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond Virginia.
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Winston - Salem
Winston - Salem - Forsyth County
U. S
Eugene A. Gordon
Gordon
Craig Phillips
U. S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Richmond
Attorneys seek stay on Charlotte desegregation plan
Lawyers for the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system ask Chief Justice Burger to pause the McMillan desegregation plan including large-scale busing until the Supreme Court hears the case. Judge Haynsworth says he lacks jurisdiction as the matter is before the high court. The plan would bus about 14 1000 pupils to nonneighboring schools and faces further review by the Supreme Court.
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Thaynsworth
Burger
William E. Poe
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