Carter urges Congress to restrain hospital cost increases
President Carter urged Congress to enact hospital cost containment to curb inflation and improve care. He backs a bill capping hospital revenue growth at about 9 percent annually, noting 95,000 people enter community hospitals daily with $124 million in daily costs.
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D-Ga
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Health, Education and Welfare
Joseph Califano
Talmadge
House Subcommittee
North Yemen leader and brother killed in assassination
North Yemen's moderate leader Lt. Col. Ibrahim Mohammed el Hamadi and his brother Lt. Col. Abdullah Mohammed el Hamadi were killed by unknown assailants. The Command Council named Lt. Col. Ahmad al Ghashmi as new chairman to lead amid the crisis and maintain closer ties with Saudi Arabia.
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Ahmad al Ghashmi
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Writer MacKinlay Kantor Dies of Heart Disease
Sarasota Florida UPI reports novelist MacKinlay Kantor died in a convalescent home Tuesday of heart disease at age 73. Kantor, a prolific author of 32 novels and numerous articles, won Pulitzer recognition for Andersonville in 1956. He grew up in Webster City Iowa and settled in Sarasota in 1936. Survived by wife, son Tim MacKinley, daughter Layne Kantor Shroder, sister Virginia Spuis and six grandchildren.
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Layne Kantor Shroder
Virginia Spuis
Fort Lauderdale
Carter Signs Urban Aid Bill Providing 14.7 Billion in Grants
President Carter signed the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977 authorizing 14.7 billion dollars in grants over three years to distressed urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest. The measure raises aid for older cities with a dual formula for distributing funds, while restricting some flood plain construction. In Belfast gunmen attacked a school bus, killing the driver and wounding a 15 year old girl. IRA provisional members suspected.
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Northern Ireland
Water as energy source sparks fusion hope in press briefing
UPI reports Edwin Kintner of the U S Department of Energy says deuterium in water can fuel fusion reactors with minimal radioactive waste. He notes Oak Ridge labs push controlled fusion as a cheaper, environmentally attractive power path with no combustion products and fewer wastes.
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UPI
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U.S. Department of Energy
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Oak Ridge
Parison
Getty Oil Ordered to Pay U S Treasury Overcharges
Washington reports Energy Department denies Getty Oil appeal and orders restitution exceeding 85 million dollars to the U S Treasury for alleged illegal overcharges. Getty denies violations and plans to sue. Interest could raise the total. DOE rules Getty benefited from high foreign prices for cheap domestic crude.
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Jewish group backs Panama Canal treaty ratification
American Jewish Congress joined religious groups in urging swift ratification of the Panama Canal accords. Rabbinical leader Arthur Hertzberg praised direct negotiations and mutual obligations, urging Senate approval by a two thirds vote as Carter lobbies for support and senators weigh public reception.
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UPI
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Panama Canal
Arthur Hertzberg
National Human Rights Organization
United States
Panama
Hertzberg
Republic of Panama
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Robert Byrd
Byrd
Carter
White House
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
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