Car Sales Rise For February 1976
DETROIT AP says domestic car sales in early February rose 21 percent from a year earlier as overall demand picked up. General Motors scrapped plans to boost Chevette production and will shut the South Gate California plant for three weeks to trim small car stocks. GM cites weaker demand for small cars. 56,000 Chevettes sold in first four months of the 1976 model year.
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General Motors Corp
South Gate
Calif
Eliott M. Estes
Washington to Doctors Let Me Go Off Quietly
Chicago AP report recounts George Washington asking his physicians to stop treatments as he weakened from illness and bleeding. Dr. F Mare LaForce notes the radical tracheotomy was never used in the United States and would have prolonged life. Washington died December 14, 1799 at age 67 after a sore throat and repeated bleeding. In Miami, Margaret Trudeau plans winter visits with Ottawa friends.
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George Washington
F. Mare LaForce
United States
LaForce
Veterans Administration Hospital
Denver
Washington
Elisha Dick
Tucson
Ariz
American Medical Women’s Association
Miami
Margaret Trudeau
Pierre Trudeau
Ottawa
Dozens Hurt In Riot Near Boston High School
Dozens injured and 13 arrested after a Fathers March protest near South Boston High School. Police say about 400 antibusing demonstrators used bottles bricks and clubs in a clash with officers. tear gas used. Police Commissioner diGrazia calls for grand jury probe and federal investigations. ROAR demands dismissal of diGrazia and disbanding of the Tactical Patrol Force.
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Boston
South Boston High School
Robert J. diGrazia
U.S. District Court
W. Arthur Garrity Jr
ROAR
diGrazia
Richard Laws
TPF
U.S. Attorney's Office
Louise Day Hicks
Norman Halliday
South Boston
Mrs Kissinger Out Of Hospital
Nancy Kissinger, wife of Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger, has been released from Massachusetts General Hospital eight days after ulcer surgery. She was accompanied by her husband as they flew back to Washington. Doctors reported excellent progress after 40 percent of her stomach was removed on February 7, and said she should return to a normal diet in about two months.
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Nancy Kissinger
Henry A. Kissinger
Massachusetts General Hospital
Washington
Envoy Denies Microwave Health Risk At Embassy In Moscow
The American Embassy dismissed a Boston Globe report that Ambassador Walter Stoessel has a leukemia like illness linked to Soviet microwaves as inaccurate. Stoessel is active and has not received treatment. No greater illness rate was found among embassy personnel. In Moscow, a separate report says two inmates escaped Dallas County jail in Buffalo Missouri.
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Boston Globe
Walter Stoessel
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State Department
Washington
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Globe
Tchaikovsky Street
Killer Drunk Found Guilty Of Murder In Alabama
Helfin Mack Lankford, 68, was convicted of first degree murder for a June highway crash that killed 16 year old Randall Holt. He received a life sentence without bond pending appeal after a Montgomery County jury found him drunk or drugged when his car crossed the median. Dist Atty Jimmy Evans said the verdict signals a crackdown on drunken drivers. Lankford made no comment as Judge Richard P. Emmet imposed the sentence.
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Ala
Helfin Mack Lankford
Lankford
Randall Holt
Montgomery County
Dist
Jimmy Evans
Circuit Court
Richard P. Emmet
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