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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Dec 10, 1976

Page

8

Bell System eyes charges for long distance information calls

AT&T chairman John D. deButts says Bell subsidiaries will soon seek state approval to charge for all long distance directory assistance. He notes costs are already reflected in bills, with some states charging for local info calls while interstate calls remain free.

Washington Bell System American Telephone & Telegraph Co At&t John D. deButts Bell Virginia New York

Factual Service Bureau tied to medical record theft probe

Investigators from the FBI and IRS probe Chicago firm Factual Service Bureau Inc for gaining unauthorized medical records and selling them to major insurers. The case links to 55 firms, with indictments against 20 defendants including three insurers Northwestern National Home Insurance and Reliance Insurance. Evidence shows sources in VA SSA FBI and Defense records and covert pretexts including posing as doctors and police.

Jonn J. Fialka Washington Star Washington FBI Internal Revenue Service Chicago Factual Service Bureau Inc IRS Tion Factual Insurance Company Tooley Denver Northwestern National Insurance Co Milwaukee Home Insurance Co New York Reliance Insurance Co Philadelphia William J Department of Defense Bureau of Permanent Records St. Louis Federal Office

Princeton student shares blueprint for a homegrown atom bomb

John Aristotle Phillips, aerospace engineering junior at Princeton, says he designed a 125 pound device the size of a beach ball capable of a third the power of the Hiroshima bomb. He notes the plan could be carried in a trailer, driven away, and detonated after a 20 to 30 mile retreat, warning of nuclear insecurity and warning that undergraduates could replicate such designs with readily available unclassified material.

Joan Zyda Knight Princeton N.J John Aristotle Phillips Manhattan Phillips Princeton University Hiroshima Amaz New Haven E.I. du Pont Co Wilmington del “T T 20 du Pont Frank Chilton California

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