Infant born heroin addict in Tucson faces uncertain future
An infant born at Tucson Medical Center showed heroin withdrawal signs within a day. Doctors say the baby, born to Yaqui parents in their late 20s, recovered after 15 days of treatment and left for home with his grandmother after agreeing to continued rehabilitation for the parents. Welfare workers monitor the family as doctors debate long term effects of birth addiction.
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Tucson, Ariz
Tucson
Milton Semoff
Semoff
Medicare Premiums Rise to Five Dollars and Thirty Cents
The secretary of health, education and welfare announced a July 1 increase to 5.30 per month for supplementary Medicare, a 32.5 percent rise from 4. The change accompanies a 60 day hospital deductible increase and reflects higher medical costs. The move drew criticism from the American Patients Association which calls the premium hike inflationary and aimed at boosting physician incomes.
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Washington
Robert H. Finch
Health, Education and Welfare
Nixon
Medicare
Consumer Health Organization
The
American Patients Association
Association
Theodore O. Crow
Finch
Arabesco Airlines Beats Market With Sour Dough Run
Arabesco Airlines, claiming to be the only black owned U.S. carrier, runs a nightly Oakland to Los Angeles sourdough bread cargo flight with over 800 pounds each trip. The unscheduled service started after founder Donald Grant and partners secured a $47,500 loan from Opportunity Through Ownership amid repeated financing refusals.
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Abesco Airlines
United States
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Arabesco
Oakland International Airport
Opportunity
OTO
Norman James
Influenza Emergency Strikes London Hospitals
London hospitals moved to full emergency status as an influenza outbreak overwhelmed beds. On Christmas Eve 166 flu and bronchitis admissions and 107 on Christmas Day were recorded, with the yellow alert since Dec 16 and red warning now in effect.
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London
Britain
Israelis Raid Post on Suez Gulf Strike Captures Four Egyptian Soldiers
Israeli commando units with air support struck Ras Ghareb on the Suez Gulf overnight and seized four Egyptian soldiers. The raid caused several Egyptian casualties and slight Israeli injuries, with planes providing cover and all aircraft returning safely. It followed a similar Red Sea operation at Safaga five days earlier.
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Suez Gulf
Ras Ghareb
Suez City
Gulf
Egypt
Israel
Safaga
Red Sea
U S Troops Withdrawn from Thailand
Bangkok report says 2400 American troops have been withdrawn from Thailand by December 15 under the U S Thai agreement. About 45600 U S personnel remain in six major air bases, mainly Air Force, with 6000 originally planned for withdrawal by July 1, 1970.
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Bangkok
Thailand
U.S
Warnings Up In The Plains As Snow Spreads
Heavy snow and strong winds sweep the eastern United States with up to two feet in parts from New York to northern New England. North Carolina reports thousands without power after a Christmas night ice storm as efforts continue to restore electricity to about 15,000 customers in Raleigh and nearby areas. Travel crews rescue carloads stranded on Jonas Ridge while another storm forms in the Southwest. Predawn temps dip to 68 below zero at Brownsville, Texas, and 12 below at Pellston Michigan.
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Associated Press
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North Atlantic
Great Lakes
Maine
Virginia Beach
Eastport
Raleigh
Durham
Spartanburg
North Carolina
Burke County
Jonas Ridge
U.S. 181
Morgantown
Lineville Falls
Rockies
High Plains
Central Plains
Southwest Ohio Weather Outlook Tonight Through Monday
Little temperature change expected tonight and tomorrow in southwestern Ohio. A low near 20 with partly cloudy skies. Sunday cloudy with a chance of snow or a mix of rain, high in the 30s. Monday similar with continued cloudiness and a chance of rain or snow.
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Airliner Hijacked To Cuba
A lone gunman forced United Airlines Flight 292 from New York toward Havana with 28 aboard. The Boeing 727 landed at Jose Marti Airport outside Havana two hours forty seven minutes after takeoff. It marked the 33rd U S flag carrier hijack of the year.
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Havana
Cuba
United Airlines
United’s
New York
Chicago
la Guardia
Federal Aviation Administration
Jose Marti
United
U.S
Sam the ocelot finds home at Cincinnati Zoo
The Cincinnati Zoo gains a new resident, an 11 month old ocelot named Sam. The 15 pound cat was flown from Louisville after the Kentucky Humane Federation received complaints about confinement and inadequate feeding in pet shops over six months. The federation bought Sam for 200 dollars and shipped her to Cincinnati for care.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Zoo
Sam
Louisville
Kentucky Humane Federation
Federation
U S Forces Engage Near Cambodian Border in Major Battle
U S troops fought their largest action in weeks near Cambodia, with jet bombers, helicopters, tanks, and APCs striking up to two miles from the border. U S accounts report at least 72 North Vietnamese dead and 40 bunkers destroyed, while fighting continued. Casualties for U S forces were described as light. Other clashes hit Dong Ha and My Tho as Viet Cong rockets wounded militia and pacification workers.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
Demilitarized Zone
Illinois Man Charged With Murder Of 3
Kenneth Rogers, 26, faces murder charges in the deaths of his wife Wilma 22, Barbara Case 25, and Lisa Levering 14 in southern Illinois. Rogers waived extradition from Covington Tennessee where he was treated for a self-inflicted wrist wound. Bodies were found near Carterville and Carbonale after Christmas Day and December 1 respectively.
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Illinois
Tennessee
Kenneth Rogers
Rogers
Covington
Tenn
Wilma
Barbara Case
Lisa Levering
Carbondale High School
Miss Case
Carterville
Ill
Miss Levering
Carbondale
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