FDA probes deaths linked to liquid protein diet craze
Washington FDA and CDC review reports of up to eleven deaths possibly connected to predigested liquid protein diets. Officials stress no proven link yet and emphasize supervision, recalls of defective bottles, and ongoing checks of labeling, product quality, and medical use for severely obese patients.
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UPI
Food and Drug Administration
Center For Disease Control
FDA
CDC
Israelis protest free market reforms with widespread strikes
Israel’s parliament backed the new free market program while workers shut refineries plants and ports in Haifa and Ashdod and disrupted rail service. The two-day stock market rally followed a 53 to 32 vote in favor amid no confidence rejection.
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Israel
UPI
Mediterranean
Histadrut Labor Federation
Afl-Cio
Communist Party
Haifa
Ashdod
el al Airlines
Ben- Gurion
Wine labels face public vote in labeling debate
San Francisco partisans of the Wine Institute urge the public to decide rules on labeling during a three day hearing by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. They argue government mandates for grape percentages would harm winemaking and taste, preferring consumer judgment over government numbers.
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San Francisco
UPI
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
The
Wine Institute
John de Luca
Institute
de Luca
George Ware Jr
Committee On Laws and Regulations
Guardians named for three disabled girls in Connecticut
UPI reports Hartford judge M Joseph Blumenfeld appointed three Hartford lawyers James Wade Richard Reynolds and Brenda Eckert as guardians for three girls aged 12 to 15 who are blind or deaf and retarded. Parents seek sterilization but hospital fears lawsuits. A final hearing is set for November 21.
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UPI
U.S
M. Joseph Blumenfeld
James Wade
Richard Reynolds
Brenda Eckert
Hartford
Diamond
Ruby
Pearl
University of Connecticut
John Dempsey Hospital
Farmington
Blumenfeld
Bail set for gem theft suspect in Seattle raid
Gene Welser, 48, arrested in Oakland, faces interstate transportation of stolen property charges after being named in a warrant. Bail set at 50000 dollars, remanded until a court hearing on November 10. He is the sixth suspect in a $2 million Seattle jewel heist. five others were arrested by the FBI in San Francisco and Oakland.
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San Francisco
UPI
Gene Welser
Seattle
Welser
Oakland
FBI
Storms March Across U S From Texas To Great Lakes
Storms swept from Texas across the central U S to the Great Lakes bringing hail high winds and heavy rain. Marble size hail reported in Gladewater Texas two inch hail near Kansas City Missouri. Three inches of snow fell in Denver Colorado and more showers spread from the Rockies to the Northwest coast.
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Missouri
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Kansas City
Central Rockies
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Pacific
Northwest
Denver
Limon County
Colo
Colorado
Lawmaker urges coffee price cuts and reduced consumption
New York Democrat Fred Richmond urged Maxwell House and other roasters to lower prices as green bean import costs fell from 3.25 to 1.85 per pound. He called for a halving of U S coffee consumption until retail prices drop to 2.25 a pound, citing current Washington prices from 3.25 to 5.02 per pound and Maxwell House at 4 to 4.60.
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UPI
House Subcommittee
U.S
New York
Fred Richmond
Maxwell House
Congress
Richmond
Fearful aliens arm themselves with small knives
In San Diego County aliens sneaking from Mexico now carry small finger knives after robberies and killings. Sheriff detectives investigate the stabbing death of Jose Garcia, 19, as one of about a dozen fatal attacks on aliens this year. Authorities say fear drives migrants to defend money carried for December work.
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UPI
United States
Mexico
Marina Sanchez
North County
Chicano Federation
Border Patrol
Jose G. Garcia
Richard M. Castaneda
Carlsbad
California extended forecast from Thursday to Saturday
Northern California expects showers at times with snow levels 5 to 6 thousand feet and night fog along the coast. Central California will be mostly fair with coastal fog and temperatures from the 60s to upper 70s inland, with lows in the 40s. Southern California desert areas will have fair, warm days with highs 70s to 90s and early mornings in the 30s to 50s. coastal and mountain areas see fair weather with coastal fog and winds in higher elevations, highs 66 to 72 near the coast and 80s in the valleys.
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UPI
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Owens Valley
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Low Desert
Link Between Car Exhaust and Cancer Found in Swiss Town
A Swiss American study links traffic exhaust to higher cancer deaths among residents near a highway in Netstal Switzerland. Researchers measured soil polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 85 to 300 mg per kg near the road, far above the 21 mg in a light traffic area and 4 mg in an Alpine meadow. The team cautions that many exhaust components may contribute to cancer risk and calls for broader investigation.
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Washington
UPI
Switzerland
Netstal
Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis arrested in New York
Frank Sturgis, 52, a Watergate figure, was arrested in a Manhattan apartment at 11:30 p.m. on charges of aggravated harassment and coercion for threatening Martia Lorenz to stop her from testifying before the House Committee on Assassinations. He had been linked to the Watergate burglary and later released after a prior prison term.
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UPI
Frank Sturgis
Sturgis
Manhattan
Martia Lorenz
Miss Lorenz
CIA
FBI
Miami
Watergate
Washington, D.C
James McCord
E Howard Hunt
G. Gordon Liddy
National Democratic Committee
Sugar exporters seek higher world price for sugar
In Mexico City delegates from 21 sugar producing nations gather to push the international sugar price from 8 to at least 11 cents per pound. Jorge Brioso Dominguez calls the current price below production costs and harmful to developing exporters. Countries at the meeting include Argentina Barbados Bolivia Brazil Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Ecuador El Salvador Haiti Guatemala Guyana Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Dominican Republic Trinidad Venezuela.
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Mexico City
Mexico
UPI
Jorge Brioso Dominguez
Association of Latin American and Caribbean Sugar Exporting Countries
Argentina
Barbados
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Ecuador
el Salvador
Haiti
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Dominican Republic
Trinidad
Venezuela
NOW attacks Younger's rotation of chief justice post
The National Organization for Women criticized Attorney General Evelle Younger's plan to rotate the chief justice role among state Supreme Court justices and questioned his motives after Rose Bird became the first woman to lead the court. NOW urged Gov. Brown to appoint women to appellate vacancies and asked Carter to appoint more women to federal judiciary posts.
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UPI
National Organization For Women
Evelle Younger
Supreme Court
Gloria Allred
Younger
Rose Bird
Bird
Allred
Edmund G. Brown Jr
President Carter
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