Cancer Link Found In Pesticides
FDA findings link a carbamate pesticide class to cancer in animals. EPA weighs limits while noting no imminent hazard. ETU, a carbamate breakdown product, caused thyroid cancer in rats, prompting calls for further risk evaluation and possible stronger controls.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Environmental Protection Agency
William M. Upholt
EPA
Virgil D. Wodicka
Bureau of Foods
Upholt
Associated Press
Autopsy confirms hostages killed by gunfire at Attica
State Corrections Commissioner Rus sell G. Oswald announced autopsies show hostages died from gunshot wounds. A Monroe County medical examiner confirmed 42 dead, including 32 prisoners and 10 staff, amid calls for Oswald’s ouster and heightened security at Clinton and Great Meadow prisons.
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Attica
N.Y
Russell G. Oswald
Buffalo
New York
Great Meadow Prison
Oswald
Clinton Prison
Dannemora
John F. Edland
Monroe County
GI Drug Treatment Expanded
Washington AP reports that drug addicted servicemen will face mandatory treatment before discharge under a DoD directive. Previously, exiting personnel were offered voluntary treatment after pre-discharge drug tests. Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe testified that drug dependent personnel with little remaining service will be transferred to VA facilities for treatment, a shift after voluntary plans failed.
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Washington
Administration
Department of Defense
ASMRO
Armed Services Medical Regulating Organization
Veterans Administration
Jerome H. Jaffe
Senate Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee
Jaffe
Nixon
Space Needle a Seattle Icon Draws Global Attention
Seattle's Space Needle remains a top attraction drawing millions since the 1962 World's Fair. George Johnson recalls publicity stunts including a 200 foot firecracker string and notes high weddings and engagements at the rotating restaurant lounge above the city.
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Seattle
Wash
San Antonio
Calgary
George Johnson
Iran
Prince Philip
Britain
Johnson
Needle
War Hero Doolittle Granted Honorary ALPA Membership
Air Line Pilots Association finally grants honorary membership to Jimmy Doolittle at a black tie dinner after earlier mock votes against him for flight rule violations. Doolittle, 74, recalled as a pioneering aviator with a Medal of Honor for leading the 1942 Tokyo raid.
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Washington
Jimmy Doolittle
Tokyo
Air Line Pilots Association
ALPA
John J. O'Donnell
Eastern Air Lines
Bob Considine
Doolittle
Commerce Department
Fall-like Weather Continues With Unseasonable Warm Day
Forecast calls for fall like conditions to persist tonight and tomorrow with lows around the mid 50s and daytime highs near 70s. Yesterday reached 83 degrees and this morning opened at 63 in a mild pattern.
Nursing Home Fire Kills 6 in Salt Lake City
A fire at the Lil Haven nursing home on a two and a half story brick building killed six residents and injured 18 others. Fire officials said 18 were in the facility when the blaze started on the second floor and the fire was extinguished within 30 minutes. Fire Marshal Ben Andrus ordered an investigation to determine the cause. The manager recalled residents were heard shouting as they tried to escape. Neighbors noted language barriers and varying levels of disability among patients.
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Lil Haven
Ben Andrus
Monte Waldron
Lorna Boozer
Sicily
Sicilian Students Question Mafia Attitudes Reported
In western Sicily 2166 high school students answered an anti Mafia commission survey on attitudes toward the secret society. Respondents praise and critique the Mafia with anecdotes about loyalty and power including a note on Mafia influence in jobs and politics.
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Italy
anti-Mafia Commission
Secret
Sicily
Parliamentary Commission
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Wodicka
American Chemical Society
R.M. Phipot
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Research Triangle Park
N.C
Ernest Hodgson
North Carolina State University
Hollis Chase
Edland
Seattle’s Needle
Jonson
Gers
War Hero
Plainfield
N.J
Miami
United States
Salt Lake City
Ann Landers
Anne
Tenner
Tee
Valley News
Eestor
Women's News
Cree
Sparkling Miami
Great
Miami River
Journal
John Sheckler
Mafia
Rome
Giuseppe
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