Charlie Applequist First Brain Pacemaker Patient
In Rochester Minnesota a 13 year old cerebral palsy patient, Charles Applequist, became the first child to receive a brain pacemaker at Mayo origin site. The device was activated recently and shows new right arm mobility though walking with crutches remains unlikely. His father describes Charlie as gaining new sensations and calls him Charlie the Bionic Tuna. Funding covers part by Crippled Children's Fund and March of Dimes with medical costs estimated at 15000 dollars.
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Battles Die Down On Three Fronts In Lebanon
Fighting on Lebanon’s three warfronts slowed as Arab League mediator Hassan Sabry El Khaly departed for Damascus to pursue his peace plan aimed at ending the 17 month civil war.
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Korea Presses Panmunjom Troop Separation Proposal
North Korea urged immediate acceptance of its Panmunjom troop separation plan while Seoul demands UN personnel safety assurances before talks. The exchange follows Aug. 18 killings of two U.S. Army officers by North Korean guards and complex diplomacy in Beirut and Lebanon amid regional clashes.
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New Mexico AIP Drafts Reagan and Brown for Ticket
The American Independent Party of New Mexico drafted Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown for the November election. AIP leader Mercedes Phillips said the state committee chose the pair as representatives of most Americans and would run them under the AIP banner in New Mexico. She said the party opposed Georgia Governor Lester Maddox and plans to urge other states to back Reagan and Brown.
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California
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Georgia
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Gunmen sought in kidnapping and murder of supermarket manager’s wife
Orange County sheriffs deputies hunted Southern California for masked gunmen who abducted Joann Seigman and her three children from a Dominguez Hills market. Seigman, 43, was found shot dead in a field. children were found bound but unharmed in the family van. Market Basket offered a substantial reward for information leading to arrests and conviction.
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California
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Dominguez Hills
Los Angeles County
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Narrow escape as toddler dodges on rail line
In Lehi Utah a brakeman named Carl Bury lunged toward a toddler named Kim berley Wood who dashed onto the tracks. The child tripped and fell but crawled away with only a minor head cut after moments on the freight line.
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Lehi
Utah
UPI
Carl Bury
Kimberley Wood
Dioxin Threat Shocks U S Gardens and Food Chains
Newsday reports the deadly chemical TCDD, a dioxin byproduct, is present in the American environment and beef fat and liver from cattle fed on treated land. It cites stored quantities in Wilmington California Gulfport Mississippi and Johnston Island and describes a 4.2 pound release during the Seveso plant explosion.
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