Cigarette Smoking Losing Some Favor in Last Six Years
A national CDC survey shows adult smoking declines since 1970 with stronger anti smoking attitudes among smokers. Of 12,000 participants, 70 percent favor fewer smoking places, 56 percent want all cigarette ads banned, and 61 percent have tried to quit though 57 percent expect to still smoke in five years.
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Atlanta
National Clearinghouse For Smoking and Health
Center For Disease Control
Division of Cancer Control and Rehabilitation
National Cancer Institute
Clearinghouse
David Sencer
CDC
Reader Q A Petty fan club and local phone delays explained
Action Line answers questions on why Guilford County's switchboard at the Governmental Center in Greensboro is slow due to shared lines with High Point and a single operator. It notes potential equipment or staffing issues and explains NC first grade eligibility rules and the Richard Petty Fan Club address for membership.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
High Point
Y. A Sanford Smith
Smith
Carter Gains Additional Support From New York Delegates
Jimmy Carter camps in Georgia as New York delegates back him, Udall signaling free to switch to the frontrunner. Church urges support, New York leaders urge party unity. Carter later praised by Carey Harriman Beame, amid a Dallas fundraising dinner that netted about 230000 dollars. Brown remains the only holdout as Carter seeks a unified Democratic ticket.
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Jimmy Carter
Georgia
Carter
New York
New York City
Rep
Morris KK. Udall
Arizona
Sen
Frank Church
Idaho
State
Ava Gardner Walks in Stocking Feet on NYC Set
Barefoot Contessa actress Ava Gardner, famed for The Barefoot Contessa, is seen walking in stocking feet on New York sidewalks Monday during filming of The Sentinel. Vrrephotay.
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New York
Lawmaker To Plead Innocent
Rep Allan Howe faces a Salt Lake City arraignment on a misdemeanor charge for allegedly offering two police decoys $20 for sex acts. Howe, claiming innocence, plans to enter an innocent plea through attorney Wayne L Black as pressure grows for resignation. President Ford comments on public officials’ moral duties amid broader Capitol Hill sex scandal disclosures. Colleen Gardner threatens to present evidence of sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill involving multiple lawmakers.
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Washington
Allan Howe
Salt Lake
Utah Democrat
Salt Lake City
Howe
Wayne L. Black
Utah
Ford
Convention of Southern Baptists
Norfolk
Colleen Gardner
U.S
Capitol Hill
Gardner
Young
Carl Albert
Democrats Reject Health Care Financing Plan
The Democrat Platform Committee narrowly voted down a public financing plan for a national health insurance system. Carter supporters engineered the defeat and plan to push their own financing idea later in the meetings, proposing shared payroll taxes with general tax revenues.
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Washington
Democrat Platform Committee
Jimmy Carter
National ID plan dies as false identification feared
A federal advisory panel rejects a national identity card or domestic passport as a privacy threat. The Justice Department task force proposes tighter birth certificate and driver license procedures, inter-state birth death certificate matching, and stricter verification for welfare and Social Security applicants. Thornburgh cites a $20 billion annual false identity burden from illegal immigration, fraud, and crime, with costs borne by taxpayers and law enforcement.
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Washington
Federal Advisory Committee On
Justice Department Task Force
Richard Thornburgh
Thornburgh
Letter Bomb Alert Issued Across Five U S Cities
FBI Director Clarence M Kelley warned businesses and individuals to be vigilant after a series of mailed bombs in five U S cities. The devices arrived in manila envelopes postmarked from Atlanta Tex and Texarkana with three quarters inch thick labels. Four women were injured slightly when one exploded in New York City at Merrill Lynch.
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Washington
FBI
Clarence M Kelley
U.S
Kelley
Manila
Atlanta
Tex
Texarkana
New York City
Merrill Lynch Inc
Milestone For Convention Southern Baptists Hear President Ford
The Southern Baptist Convention opens its 119th assembly in Norfolk with an incumbent president delivering the first such address in the group's history. President Ford is set to speak to delegates from about 35,000 churches and 12.7 million members, then fly back to Washington. Over 12,000 messengers are expected for the three day meeting. Preconvention events included a pastors conference electing Dr. Jerry Vines as president and Bailey Smith as vice president, who urged pastors to focus on their families. A meeting of the Religious Education Association linked sex scandals in Washington to a broader moral illness, with Rep. John Buchanan and Rev. Harry Hollis framing Congress as a mirror of society.
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North Carolina
State Board of Education
N.C
William W. Peek
State Board
General Assembly
Peek
Norfolk
Southern Baptist Convention
Ford
Washington
United States
Jerry Vines
Mobile
Ala
Bailey Smith
Dell City
Okla
Peter M. Lord
Park Avenue Baptist Church
Titusville
Fla
Alabama
Ecutive
Convention
Religious Education Association
Congress
John Buchanan
Birmingham
Buchanan
Harry N. Hollis
Nashville, Tenn
Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission
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