West Point cheating scandal widens as cadets faced
Prosecution testimony at West Point reveals 300 to 400 cadets in the Class of 1977 cheated on a graded home-study problem. Capt. Bruce Sweeny said the number of cheaters could be 400, a figure raising the scope of what may be the academy’s largest ethics scandal in 174 years.
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West Point
N.Y
U.S. Military Academy
Bruce Sweeny
Sweeny
Academy
State urged to create separate Ohio Medicaid department
A legislative panel was asked to consider erecting a standalone state department to run Ohio Medicaid. Stephen F. Loebs of Ohio State warned current policies fail to curb rising health care costs, noting Medicaid in Ohio jumped 25 to 30 percent last year. He suggested transferring staff from the current Department of Public Welfare to form a new cabinet-level agency dedicated to Medicaid.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Department
Stephen F. Loebs
Ohio State University
Hospital and Health Services Graduate School
Loebs
Ohio Department of Public Welfare
Coal gasification plant planned in Noble County Ohio
A group of nine firms led by Continental Oil will build a 165 million discovery coal gasification and mine complex in Noble County Ohio funded by ERDA. The 58.6 million cubic feet daily synthetic natural gas plant will employ about 600 people and begin production in 1981 with East Ohio Gas Co potentially purchasing the output.
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Ohio
US Energy Research and Development Administration
Robert Taft Jr
R-Ohio
Continental Oil Co
Eration
Noble County
East Ohio Gas Co
Consolidated Natural Gas Co
ERDA
EPA warns nuclear accident could kill far more than NRC estimates
EPA review finds a major reactor meltdown could produce far higher death and cancer tolls than NRC Rasmussen report. It questions evacuation and medical surge capacity, warning some 4,900 needing heroic care would lack access. No legal impact yet, NRC silent.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC
Associated Press
Rasmussen
United States
Perha
Rosenthal State Bar President Dies at 62
Springfield Ohio AP report Rosenthal Daniel Ll Rosenthal, president of the state Bar Association, died at home Wednesday from an apparent heart attack. He had been set to end his term as president that day and was a UC College of Law alumnus.
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Springfield
Ohio
Daniel Ll. Rosenthal
State Bar Association
Rosenthal
University of Cincinnati College of Law
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