Medicaid findings show waste and abuse in program
A congressional subcommittee report documents widespread fraud, kickbacks, and mismanagement in Medicaid. It cites doctors overcompensation, excessive testing, and city and state record-keeping gaps. The panel urges federal takeover or major funding cuts and tighter administration to ensure funds aid the poor and elderly.
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New York City
Congress
Internal Revenue Service and
Justice, Treasury and Health, Education and Welfare Departments
Uranium Cartel Alleged As World Price Plot Emerges
Gen Edward Levi and two others discuss documents alleging a Uranium Marketing Research Organization cartel aiming to fix prices, mimic OPEC, and threaten US supply. They say 97 to 98 percent of non Communist uranium comes from this group and warn of potential antitrust probes, with possible US price impacts from 6 to to a pound since 1972.
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Edward Levi
Ross
Organization of Petroleum
United States
Justice Department
U.S
Uranium Marketing Research Organization
Harding
Detur
Department
Richard Maullin
California Energy Commission
Westinghouse
Americans Press Hunger Strike to Return Home from Mexican Prisons
In Mexico City American prisoners threaten a nationwide hunger strike until repatriation to the United States. Spokesman James Dean Brown and inmates including John Gua Wesa, Dow Bowee Hawthorne, and David Belding say they organized the strike since June. The U.S. consulate says talks on a Mexican prisoner-exchange proposal could begin soon, with aims of serving sentences in the home country. Brown and Gutierrez vow to continue to death if needed, seeking repatriation under any conditions.
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Mexico City
U.S
James Dean Brown
Committee of 120
Reclusorio Norte
Brown
John Gua Wesa
Lees
Dow Bowee Hawthorne
David Belding
Poughkeepsie
N.Y
Bowen
US State Department
Mexico
Associated Press
Henry A. Kissinger
Jimmy Carter
Kissinger
Alonso Garcia Robles
Exicans
Gutierrez
Iran Hunting Killers Continues Ambush Details Emerge
Iranian authorities describe the ambush that killed three American Rockwell International officials in Tehran. Autonetics executives William C. Cottrell Jr., Robert R. Krongard, and Donald G. Smith, all age 43, were shot as a green Dodge carried them away from Halas Avenue while gunmen opened fire from a wall. The Armed Forces Revolutionary Movement claimed, and Tehran papers noted foreign involvement. Neighbors and officials discuss the dangers facing about 21,000 Americans in Iran amid a large foreign workforce and security concerns.
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Rockwell International Corp
Autonetics
Rockwell Division
Anaheim
William C. Cottrell Jr
Los Gatos
Robert R Krongard
Sundyvale
Donald G. Smith
Yorba Linda
Nather Fehicle
Armed Forces Revolutionary Movement
Paris
Schaffer
Turner
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
U.S. Central Intelligence
al Tehran
Kayan
John Wilson
U.S
Rockwell
Iran
United States
Tehran
Sabotage ruled out in two AF transport crashes
Two United States Air Force C141 aircraft crashes in Greenland and England prompted investigations that ruled out sabotage. Three people died, including 13 Americans, with crews and survivors evacuated for medical care. Investigators seek flight recorders to determine causes amid conflicting initial reports.
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U.S. Air Force
Greenland
Air Force CW
Washington
Aarther
McGuire Air Force Base
New Jersey
U.S
Seendre Stroemfjord
Mildenhall
Royal Air Force
Peterborough
Eny
Air Force
Pentagon
Michael Burch
England
Cne
US Military Airlift Command
Scott Air Force Base
Ill
Maj
H.C. Halken
Soendre Stroemfjond
Thule
Army Burn Center
San Anto
Tex
Sulitay
Wenayy
Know Your Port Series Number Three Port of Long Beach
The Port of Long Beach earned the Environmental Improvement and Protection Award from the American Association of Port Authorities. For over 20 years it has hourly sampled water quality and operated a port-wide sealant system to control coke dust and spills. In 1974 it handled more than 12.5 million barrels of petroleum, with total spillage under one barrel. an emergency plan protects marine life and beaches. Jacobsen Pilot Service records no vessel collisions in half a century. A multi million landscaping program enhances port areas for public access and recreation.
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American Association of Port Authorities
Long Beach
Jacobsen
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