Review reaffirms saccharin cancer concerns
Washington UPI reports a Congress ordered review states saccharin is a potential cancer risk in humans. Dr. Fredrick Robbins of Case Western Reserve University cites rat studies showing high level saccharin ingestion raises bladder cancer incidence in three experiments during a Senate hearing on FDA's proposed ban slated possibly this summer.
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Washington
UPI
Fredrick Robbins
Case Western Reserve University
Robbins
Sen
Edward Kennedy
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Heiress Mystery Deepens Around Helen Brach Disappearance
Reporters probe the Brach case as neighbors recall Helen Brach's charm and charity. Theories include natural death, surgery gone wrong, or abduction with Matlick possibly benefiting from her estate. Investigators note no solid lead and fear persists in Wagner Road neighborhood.
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Helen Brach
Rizzo
Caribbean
Rio de Janeiro
Jack Matlick
Wagner Road
Mandatory energy rules men ace home sales
Washington AP reports a congressional panel approved an energy plan requiring homeowners to install insulation and meet federal standards before selling. Republicans call it government intrusion though the House energy subcommittee moved the bill to the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. Standards drafted by 1980 could take effect by 1982 with potential delays to 1985.
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Washington
House Energy and Power Subcommittee
House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
New Busing Stance Declared By Carter Admin
The Carter administration reverses Ford policy, saying education funds may be withheld from districts that refuse desegregation efforts through school mergers. Kansas City plans may be rejected by HEW as part of enforcing the new interpretation. Gas guzzler tax faces doom in Congress amid stalled auto talks and Latin American links. Cuba’s support for guerrillas and Africa presence could slow moves toward normalizing U S relations with Cuba. State Dept cautions no full bilateral negotiations despite a diplomat exchange.
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New York Times
Ford
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Kansas City
Newhouse News Service
Carter
Congress
United Press Intn‘i
Cuba
Africa
State Dept
Department
Begin Accepts Israeli Mandate to Form New Government
Right wing Likud leader Menahem Begin accepted a presidential mandate to lead a new Israeli government and expressed confidence in forming a majority coalition. In Seychelles a 24 hour curfew was lifted partially as new leftist leader takes power. Rosalynn Carter begins Latin American talks amid protests over the United States stance on human rights and nuclear power.
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Victoria
Seychelles
UPS
James Mancham
France Albert Rene
Brasilia
Brazil
UPI
Rosalynn Carter
Carter
Jerusalem
Jesus
Bethlehem
Garden
Gethisemane
Jordan Valley
Jericho
Nazareth
Cana
Mount of Beatitudes
Holy Land
Business spending up little in 1977 forecast
U S government data show American business plans to spend 135.3 billion dollars on new plant and equipment in 1977, up 0.7 percent from earlier estimates. When adjusted for price changes the real gain tops 7.7 percent over 1976, with motor vehicles, electrical machinery, petroleum and primary metals leading the rise.
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Washington
Comerce Dept
Charles Schultze
Council of Economic Advisers
Star Wars breaks theater records nationwide
Star Wars shatters early box office as 20th Century Fox posts $5.2 million gross in 45 theaters twelve days after release. In New York, Attorney General Lefkowitz charges General Motors with not disclosing engine interchange in 1977 luxury cars including Chevrolet engines in Cadillacs.
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Los Angeles
20Th Century Fox
New York
UPI
Atty
Louis Lefkowitz
General Motors
Chevrolet
Lefkowitz
Buick
Thunderstorm capsizes fishing boat on Chesapeake Bay
A 42 foot fishing vessel Dixie Lee II capsized after a 10 to 13 foot wave off Norfolk Virginia. Four boaters drowned nine remain missing while fourteen were rescued as storms and tornadoes sweep eastern and southern U S with winds up to 98 mph.
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Norfolk
Chesapeake Bay
Coast Guard
National Weather Service
United States
Mandatory retirement attack by aging groups
A coalition of 10 million elderly Americans adopts Count Us In and denounces mandatory retirement. Harriet Miller of AARP and the National Retired Teachers Assn calls forced retirement wasteful, degrading, discriminatory, morally wrong and un American at their combined conference.
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Pittsburgh
Harriet Miller
American Association of Retired Persons
National Retired Teachers Assn
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Pfiester
Patricia Neal
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Viero Fame
Nebraskas Qualty Department Stores
U.S
Begin
Bishops
Bishops Buffet
Gateway Shopping Center
Mace’ Lincoln Center
Magee
Lincoln Center
Gateway
Ender
Father John C
St. Rose of Lima Parish
Genoa
Nebraska
John C Rizzo
Rowe of
Lima
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