Anna Roosevelt Halsted dies at 92 after public life
Anna Roosevelt Halsted eldest daughter of Franklin Roosevelt died of cancer at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx at age 92. She served as a trusted aide during World War II and accompanied her father to the Yalta conference, later co hosted an ABC radio program and advocated women’s equality. Her marriages included Dr James Halsted, Curtis Dall, and John Boettger, her life spanning journalism public affairs and medical philanthropy.
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White House
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N.Y
Medical College
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New York City
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Women’s Page
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Hillsdale
British Hospitals Face Widespread Slowdown Crisis
World Today reports British hospitals turned away thousands of patients and some closed emergency wards as doctors joined a nationwide slowdown. An ambulance official warned death risk grows amid many hospitals lacking casualty services while Health Minister Barbara Castle resisted overtime pay demands. Over half of hospitals are affected.
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Barbara Castle
House of Commons
Desert lure project near Giza to cost 1 million
Cairo Egypt and a Hong Kong firm sign a pact to build a desert plateau tourist city near the pyramids comprising five hotels with 1 800 rooms artificial lakes and a golf course. The agreement offers Egypt s most favorable terms to a foreign company since the Suez nationalization in 1956.
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Hong Kong
Pyramids
Giza
European summit opens in Rome with unity tests
European leaders opened a two day summit in Rome to bridge nationalist and economic gaps and bind 250 million Europeans. Britain resists a common seat. talks on energy, economy, a European parliament, and a Common Market passport frame the agenda, with Dec 16 set for Paris discussions.
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Paris
Loch Ness Monster Symposium Cancelled by Scottish Groups
Scottish organizers from the Royal Society of Edinburgh the University of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt University pulled out of a Loch Ness monster symposium citing publicity. The cancellation followed controversy over underwater photographs from a Boston team.
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Loch Ness
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Heriot Watt University
Boston Academy of Applied Science
High winds strand hundreds on English Channel ferries
Winds up to 100 miles an hour whip Britain's coast on Monday night stranding hundreds of Channel ferries passengers. Three Sealink ferries sought shelter off Deal and a fourth remained outside Dover harbor six hours after its scheduled docking time.
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IRS project to be probed in tax inquiry hearing
New documents about Operation Leprechaun a IRS project allegedly including reports on taxpayers sex lives will be examined in a House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing Tuesday Witnesses expected include Jeffrey Shapiro from the IRS personnel division The session aims to reveal scope and methods of the project with illustrative testimony
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Washington
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FDA halts distribution of Leminex 2 sleep aid nationwide
The FDA on Monday ordered an immediate halt to all distribution of the sleep aid Leminex 2 and recalled existing supplies due to a significant health hazard posed by the diphenhydramine-containing compound. California already banned distribution.
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Food and Drug Administration
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California
Winter storms lash nation with floods and snow
Winter storms sweep the country bringing mudslides in Oregon snow warnings from Idaho to Michigan and strong winds near New England. Roofs are torn off and power lines fall along a belt from Colorado to the Virginias with no serious injuries reported. Five inches of rain flood the Oregon coast collapsing Highway 101 for hours.
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Extradition Fight Over Williams Heads to North Carolina
Michigan Supreme Court upholds a lower court ruling blocking Williams from challenging a NC indictment while still in Michigan. Williams 49, former head of the Republic of New Africa, once eyed a black nation through five southern states and has a history of clashes during civil rights protests in Monroe, North Carolina.
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Wiliams
Freedom Riders
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Mississippi
G. Bruce Stegall
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Stegall
Stegalls
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China
Cuba
United States
Rosenbergs' FOIA Fees Waived by Justice Dept
The Justice Department waived 20 455 dollars in fees for access to FEI files on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg citing public interest. A 10 cent per page copying fee remains. The Rosenbergs were executed in 1954 after convictions for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviets. Their sons, Robert and Michael Meeropol, seek FBI files under FOIA. The Metropolis group uses the couple's name to campaign for innocence.
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Michael Meeroph
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Barcelona business figure freed in amnesty decree
Nobel Juan Vila Reyes, a Barcelona businessman, was freed by a Madrid court under King Juan Carlos’s amnesty decree after serving 17 concurrent sentences. He had been accused of defrauding the government of more than 160 million with an export company that did no exporting. The scandal prompted a cabinet shake up led by Gen. Francisco Franco, with three high officials later indicted and freed under the amnesty.
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Barcelona
Wnder
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Vila Reyes
Madrid
Francisco Franca
Monitor Nick Thorne to lead Sinai Desert tracking team
Nick Thorne aged 54 who coordinated the Indochina refugee center at Camp Pendleton will head American technicians monitoring the Sinai Desert between Egypt and Israel. He organized seven volunteer agencies aiding resettlement of about 50,000 refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia.
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Cambodia
Mandel indictment challenges and Kantorovich prize trip
Gov Marvin Mandel called the grand jury charges baseless and pledged to reveal evidence in court as motions proceed. The 324 count indictment names Mandel and five others in a mail fraud bribery and racketeering scheme, with arraignments set for Thursday. Leonid Kantorovich will travel to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize in economics on December 10, after Soviet officials barred Andrei Sakharov from Oslo for the Peace Prize.
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Maryland
Leonid Kantorovich
Stockholm
Monay
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Andrei Sakharov
Oslo
Sakharov
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