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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1975
Page
7
A UPI report summarizes an EPA study finding at least 253 organic chemicals in U S drinking water most untested for cancer links. The agency cautions many identified substances lack carcinogenicity testing and that chlorination may form cancer causing agents. further research is needed.
A truck driver was shot in the leg on Highway 99 south of Fresno as sniping incidents on the San Joaquin Valley route climb to four. Lucia Redondo, 57, died December 7 when a bullet pierced her windshield near Madera. A 17 year old suspect admitted the thrill killing and could face adult charges.
United Press International reports at least 19 people died in four fires. In Tinley Park Illinois a mother and six children perished likely from a Christmas tree and possible electrical short. In Reading Center New York five children and their father died in a two story home blaze.
Senator Henry M. Jackson will bypass New Hampshire and focus on New York for the 1976 Democratic presidential bid. He plans to field a slate of pledged nominees and says New York is the most important state. Fire deaths toll rises with multiple fatalities in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Illinois incidents.
Protestant extremists claiming the Red Hand Commandos said they bombed two bars in IRA areas in Northern Ireland and Dundalk Ireland killing four and wounding 27. The blasts struck Donnelly's in Silverbridge and Mulligan's in Dundalk, amid cross border tensions and prior sectarian violence.
In Bedford England Judge Robert Lymbery granted a reprieve to a 168 pound Great Dane condemned for biting a policeman two boys and a goat. The dog bit the judge during proceedings but the judge kept the reprieve and the dog returned to its 12 year old owner. The judge then went to hospital for a tetanus shot as precaution.
The Massachusetts Medical Society advances a model living will for patients to refuse maintenance devices if terminally ill. Dr. Louis Alfano and legal counsel will present a draft to the council in 30 to 60 days, echoing Connecticut’s approach. The discussion follows a symposium on Death With Dignity sparked by the Quinlan case and features Dr. Bruce Brown noting he has shut off life support and does not call it murder though it borders on euthanasia.
Interior Department accepted 56 of 231 offshore bids totaling 417 million for oil rights off the California coast despite protests from Gov Edmund Brown Jr U S Sens John Tunney Alan Cranston and Mayor Tom Bradley and 23 California congressmen who urged rejection.
Justice Department argues disclosure of Agnew files would jeopardize continuing investigations. Judge June Green set one week for U S Attorney Jervis Finney to produce documents after a FOIA suit by two law students. previous DOJ summary deemed inadequate. Agnew had pled no contest to one tax evasion charge.
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