China detonates largest nuclear test amid fallout watch
UPI reports China fired its most powerful nuclear device to date, a four megaton blast at Lop Nor in Xinjiang. EPA activated its fallout monitoring as U.S. monitors anticipate possible drift across the United States within days. previous atmospheric tests in September produced low level fallout in the northeast. The Chinese communique labeled the test a defense measure and noted Hua Kuo feng’s rise to party chairman.
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Hong Kong
UPI
China
United States
Pennsylvania
Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
United States’ Energy Research and Development Administration
Lop Nor
Sinkiang
Munist Party
Soviet Union
Hua Kuo-feng
Communist Party
Government clamps on standardized doctor fee scale
The FTC acts against the relative value scale used by the American College of Radiology which standardizes procedure values. The group will stop publishing the scale, recall copies, issue the FTC order to doctors, and inform insurers and administrators of the change.
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American College of Radiology
FTC
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Medicaid
Medicare
Smog in Caucasus Mountains Explained by Soviet Scientists
Soviet Academy of Science researchers report blue haze over Georgia mountains is natural smog from solar conversion of vegetation into solid and liquid particles. Each particle acts as a microscopic retort, with reactions governed by weather conditions. Dayan condemns Kissinger, calling his departure a relief for Israel. Michigan sues convict to cover room and board costs under a 1935 act, with most prisoners liable unless exempt.
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Moscow
UPS
Academy of Science
Soviet
Georgia
Paris
UPI
Moshe Dayan
Henry Kissinger
Israel
Pontiac, Mich
Michigan
Attorney General's Office
Charles Vance Frum
Economists foresee sluggish 1977 growth despite tax cut
Economists Saul Hymans and Harold Shapiro of the University of Michigan forecast 1977 real GNP at about 4.3 percent, with inflation near 5 percent and unemployment easing to about 6 to 7 percent. They warn private demand alone won’t lift growth and urge rapid fiscal stimulus plus a serious incomes policy.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
UPI
University of Michigan Press
Saul H. Hymans
Harold T. Shapiro
Michigan Quarterly
U.S
Hymans
Shapiro
Hymans and Shapiro
Klan calls Carter church role a probe issue
The Ku Klux Klan leader in Omaha asks President Ford to form a special committee to examine Jim Carter's involvement in admitting blacks to the Plains Baptist Church in Georgia. He says separation of church and state is at stake as Carter supported integration despite church pressure.
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Omaha
Neb
UPI
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Plains
Bill Wilkinson
Invisible Empire
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
United States
Carter seeks Democratic support for executive branch shakeup
President elect Jimmy Carter asks the Democratic leadership to grant authority to reorganize the executive branch a process he says will take two to three years. The first post election meeting with top Democrats yielded cordial but noncommittal reaction and a pledge of cooperation from House Leader Tip O Neill.
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Congressional
Herman E
Carter
Congress
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin
OPEC to meet as planned amid delay talks in Paris
OPEC economists in Vienna expect a ministerial session to begin December 15 in Qatar, with a possible two day delay to align with Paris talks. Officials hint a 10 to 15 percent price rise next January, while divisions persist over the size of the increase among members.
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Vienna
Austria
UPI
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Paris
Qatar
Hamid Zaheri
OPEC
Economic Commission
Zaheri
Damocles
Vas
Mohammed Sadri
Carter pushes stronger NATO ties at North Atlantic Assembly
President-elect Jimmy Carter told 200 NATO delegates via Rep. Jack Brooks that he seeks stronger US ties with NATO allies and a continued cooperative approach to mutual benefits. The assembly rejected a report criticizing NATO for outdated policies and Soviet threats. A separate note reports Dallas cancels JFK memorial observance citing waning local interest.
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Williamsburg
UPI
Jimmy Carter
North Atlantic Assembly
US S
NATO
Carter
Assembly
Jack Brooks
D-Tex
U.S
Brooks
Canada
North Atlantic
Brook
Labor Party
Pieter Dankert
Henry Kis
Dallas
UPS
John F. Kennedy
David Miller
Robert Folsom
Kennedy Memorial Plaza
Kennedy
Miller
Folsom
Greater Dallas
Authorities pledge warrants over penicillin resistant gonorrhea
Utah health officials say arrest warrants may be issued for suspected carriers of a penicillin resistant gonorrhea strain who do not cooperate with treatment. Bonnie Bullock and Ron Cremo cite poor clinic follow up with only about two dozen of the 394 unchecked cases.
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Salt Lake City
UPI
Utah
Bonnie Bullock
Salt Lake County
Ron Cremo
State Health Division
Bullock
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Merritt Bourne
Klan
Congregation of
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Baptist Church
Wilkinson
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Ati
Legaweay
Democratic Party Ok
Hoover
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Saudi Arabia
Iran
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API
American Guild of Variety Artists
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David Brenner
Nancy Walker
Barry Manilow
Eydie Gorme
Lawrence Welk
Tennille
John Denver
Turkey
Lompoc
Lompoc, Caiif
JFK
Singer
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R-N.y
A” St
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Lompoc Plaza
Layaway
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