Congressman Torbert Macdonald Near Death to Spontaneous Recovery
Two days after life support was disconnected from Massachusetts Democrat Congressman Torbert Macdonald, he recovered enough to be described as fully conscious and resting comfortably. In Bethesda Naval Medical Center he remained in serious condition, with staff noting his crisis has passed though he remained in danger, as family and aides recalled his coma like condition from internal bleeding and a request to remove life sustaining devices. A veteran lawmaker and former aide described his stoic approach to illness and the political career he would end amid health concerns.
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Torbert Macdonald
Washington
Bethesda Naval Mustrial Center
Massachusetts Democrat
Macdonald
House
Communications Subcommittee
Navy captain acquitted in Belknap Kennedy collision case
Capt. Walter Shafer, former Belknap skipper, was found not guilty of neglect charges after a three day Norfolk court martial. The collision in the Ionian Sea on November 22 caused fires on both ships and eight deaths. Prosecutors argued Shafer should have prevented the accident amid four course changes by the Belknap before impact.
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Walter Shafer
Belknap
Horace Morgan
Jude
Shafer
Niled Shafer
Norfolk
Soul
Kennedy
Ionian Sea
Senate rejects funds for sex and marijuana study
The Senate approved a broad 2.3 billion dollar appropriations bill after denying funds for a National Institute on Drug Abuse study on the effects of marijuana on human sexual response. Critics call the ban a hindrance to research. Dr Harris Rubin defends the study as needed scientific inquiry.
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Senate
Washington
House
National
William Hathaway
Maine
Congress
Carbondale
Harris Rubin
Wisom
Angola Faces U.N. Bid Veto Over Cuban Troops
The United States urged Angola to delay its bid for United Nations membership and signaled a veto unless Angola shows readiness to remove about 13,000 Cuban troops. A senior official said Washington pressed for concrete troop reductions before support.
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United Nations
United States
Angola
U.N
Ford signs bill to expand consumer safety powers
President Ford signed a bill expanding the Consumer Product Safety Commission authority to issue preliminary injunctions against potentially hazardous products while excluding pesticides tobacco and firearms to avoid agency overlap. He announced the measure from the White House during a Michigan campaign stop.
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Washington
Ford
Consumer Product Safety Commission
White House
Michigan
Commission
House votes to extend most higher education programs
The House approved 388 to 7 to extend most higher education programs for one year while easing controls on student loans. A full overhaul of the loan program remains stalled in Congress, with talks on consolidating aid programs into a bloc grant ongoing in committee.
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Washington
House
Education and Labor Committee
Strike continues as NBC technicians reject contract
Washington NBC technicians rejected a tentative contract accord, and a union official said the five week work stoppage will continue Wednesday night.
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Washington
NBC
Europe faces drought across Western Europe and Britain
A cold dry spring threatens reduced rainfall across Western Europe while Britain endures its first drought in 249 years. Belgium reports driest April since 1893 with 15 to 20 percent of normal, similar shortfalls in Holland Germany and northern France. Britain risks monsoon delay and continued water cuts as reservoirs empty.
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Luxembourg
Europe
Britain
Belgian Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Holland
West Germany
France
Anglia
Wessex
Wales
Yorkshire
Paroled killer surrenders after hostage standoff
Edward Byme, 34, surrendered to police after a four and a half hour rural New York standoff. Irene Racz, 20, held hostage from a Poughkeepsie home Tuesday night, suffered a minor head injury but was not seriously harmed. Byme, paroled last November for the Long Island shooting death of his father in law.
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New York
Poughkeepsie
Edward Byme
Irene Racz
Byme
Green Haven
Long Island
Trial of seven men over J Paul Getty II kidnapping begins
In Lagonegro Italy seven defendants, all Calabrian natives linked to a Mafia group, stand trial for the 1973 kidnapping of J Paul Getty II. Getty and his mother Gail Harris attended day one, with Getty moved by courtroom moments as the case unfolds after a five month captivity ending December 18, 1973. Nine have been charged after three years of investigation as police tie the group to large scale drug trafficking and ransom schemes. International Press Institute elects Olof Wahlgren chair as press freedom is lauded.
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J. Paul Getty II
Hawian
Getty
Gail Harris
Lagonegro
Gerty
Calabria
Eisenhowers hire literary agent for books and profiles
David Eisenhower and his wife Join Dear have enlisted literary agent David Obst who also represents Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. Obst notes the couple may write jointly, with plans for magazine profiles and books while writing about their lives is expected to be delayed.
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David
Joe Nixon
Eisenhower
David Obst
Carl Bernstein
Bob Woodward
Watergate Investigative Reporters
Dear UE
Maureen
Obst
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Yamashita
Tokyo
Yorimitsu
Noriko
Japan
Combined News Services
Harvard Lampoon
Encyclopaedia Britannica
James Parton
Library of Congress
Parton
American Heritage
McGraw Hill Roots
Tater
Horizon
Morgan
Vatican City
Paul VI
Communist Party
Italy
Beirut
Tripoli
Arab Liberation Front
LA Coruna
Atlantic
Francisco Rodriguez Casteo
Saudi Arabia
Coruna Bay
Olof Wahlgren
Sweden
Internaional Press Institute
Ben Stein
Wall Street Journal
Countess Or
Orleans
Lakewood
Webster- Wilcox
Revere
Ternational
Ateriacionss
Sun
Bullack
Clark Ave
Ewond
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