Long Beach Doctors Brace for Malpractice Crisis and Slowdown
A medical leader warns of public panic amid a strike over $42,000 malpractice insurance. Doctors vow not to quit, with some retiring or closing offices and elective surgery paused. Calls rise from patients fearing abandonment as reforms seek to remove malpractice cases to expert panels and limit contingency fees. Los Angeles County looks to expand emergency contracts and potentially hire physicians directly to cover gaps.
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Tye Deen
Long Beach
Itvman
Mehr
Canada
Los Angeles
John Affeldt
County Department of Health Services
Justs Wilk
Hutt
Vile
South Boston High rocked by clashes after court ruling
In South Boston High School corridors white and black pupils clashed on the first day under federal supervision after U S District Judge Garrity took control. A firebombing of the NAACP office followed by protests and student walkouts marked a tense day as teachers sought transfer and safety for an integrated education.
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Boston
Aln
South Boston
U.S
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
U.S. Distret Court
W. Arthur Garrity
Boston School Committee
John Cunningham
Lewh
Cunningham
Garrity
Inteae Ely
Boston City Hospital
Charlestown High
South Boston High
Arthur Garrity Jr
South Boston High School
Hoffa murder links swirl as witnesses name lineup suspects
Investigation sources claim Hoffa was killed in Detroit, body driven to a Jersey City landfill. Indictments unsealed in New York involve Provenzano and others in a kickback scam tied to Teamsters pension and welfare funds with loans and a Fifth Amendment defense cited by lawyer William Bufalino.
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Woul
Hoffa
Detroit
New Jersey
Jersey City
Guy
ILS
FRY
Nowlaw
Teamsters Union
Provenzano
Teamsters Pension
New York
Tle
New York City
Bufalino
FBI
Coud
Anthony Bentrovato
Lawrence Paladino
Brooklyn
Paladino
Oil Leases Continue Amid Legal Struggles and Environmental Doubts
Lawyers warn that all companies buying the lease cases proceed at their own risk as court decisions stall preliminary injunctions. Judge Williams denied a prior suit, and Interior Department approval hinges on further geological review before offshore drilling begins. The planned auction covers up to 3300 billion dollars in potential oil and gas rights, with Congress debating how to separate exploration from production and share offshore royalties with states.
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Robinso
U.S
David W. Williams
Los Angeles
Qiat
Robinson Sai
California
Thomas S. Kleppe
Los Angles
Atlantic
Alaskan
Congress
Wort
Wero
Federal Council On Environmental Quality
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Organizations
Interior Department
Tax cut fight stalls as spending ceiling urged by Ford
The Senate Finance Committee debated a tax cut via a spending ceiling. Four Republicans backed cuts while one supported no change, and the panel approved the tax cut extension 14 to 4 with Robert Dole joining the majority. Ford seeks a 395 billion dollar ceiling for 1977, which would cap spending but opponents say it undermines new budget control rules.
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Rohit F. Byrd Jr
Virgins
Robert Dole
Kansas
Ford
Senate
Finance Committee
Sen
Edmund §. Muskie
Maine
Senate Budget Committee
Kissinger arrives for NATO cutback talks
Henry Kissinger arrives in Brussels for a two day NATO foreign ministers meeting aimed at a possible US withdrawal of 1000 tactical nuclear warheads from West Germany in exchange for Soviet forces withdrawal. He will also meet Greek and Turkish ministers on Cyprus as NATO weighs Soviet expansion and SALT prospects.
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Brussels
Belgium
AAP
Henry A. Kissinger
NATO
U.S
Europe
Vienna
Kissinger
Dimitrios Bitsios
Ishan Sabri Caglayangis
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Greece
Turkey
Portugal
London
Fuerth
Parisford
Alliance Defenge
Moscow
Angola
Joseph Luns
Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
George §. Brown
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Zumwalt urges firing Kissinger over Soviet treaty breaches
Elmo Zumwalt, former naval chief, in Bakersfield says Kissinger should be fired to restore public trust. He claims the Soviet Union violated the ABM treaty by testing radar and launcher systems and accuses Kissinger of withholding information from Ford. Kissinger calls the charges false and says accusations stem from his political ambitions.
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Elmo Zumwalt
Edief
Naval Operations
Henry Kissinger
United States
Zumwalt
Bakersfield
Kissinger
Congress
Kamchatka Peninsula
Ford
Zumwvall
Zummwalt
Senate
Virginia
Washington
Moscow
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House Intelligence Committee
Flotente
Henredon
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