Oklahoma man sues four drug firms over swine flu shot
Wayne Young, 58, a probation officer from Oklahoma City, seeks 5.45 million dollars in a suit against Parke-Davis and Co., Merrell National, Wyeth Laboratories, and Mercke-Sharp and Dohme for paralysis from a swine flu vaccine. He says the shot caused complete body paralysis. The case targets producers of the vaccine. proceedings start in January.
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Oklahoma City
Wayne Young
Gene Stipe
Pennsylvania
Stipe
Young
Oklahoma
Parke-Davis and Co
Merrell National
Wyeth Laboratories
Mercke-Sharp and Dohme
U.S. District Court For
Eastern District of Oklahoma
Muskogee
Kansas Reports 12 Guillain Barré Cases Linked to Swine Flu
Topeka Kansas AP reports the national temporary paralysis syndrome Guillain Barré cases in Kansas have risen to 12. Dr. Donald Wilcox notes seven victims had swine flu vaccinations. Counties with diagnoses include Brown, Johnson, Leavenworth, McPherson, Saline, Scott, Sedgwick, and Sumner.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Donald Wilcox
Wilcox
Brown County
Johnson County
Leavenworth
McPherson County
Saline County
Scott County
Sedgwick
Sumner
Califano nomination completes Carter's Cabinet
President elect Carter named Joseph Califano Jr to head the Health Education and Welfare Department and added James R. Schlesinger as energy czar and Theodore Sorensen to a top intelligence post. The appointments completed an 11 member Cabinet as Carter eyed a possible new Department of Energy.
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Plains
Carter
Washington
Joseph Califano Jr
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Defense
James R. Schlesinger
Theodore Sorensen
White House
John F. Kennedy
Califano
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Schlesinger
Sorensen
Department of Energy
Department
Air Force
Georgia
Chicago
Richard Daley
Americas
Lillian Carter
Bell
G. Harrold Carswell
Richard Nixon
Supreme Court
Missing Christmas Edition Stuns Simi Valley Newspaper
The Mirror of Simi Valley reported its Christmas edition stolen during production. Advertising pages printed while the main news and photos vanished between typesetting and press, with editors blaming Omnigraphics reloxes theft and police unsure where to search. The Sunland-Tujunga plant produced the nearly blank issue.
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Simi Valley
Calif
Mirror
Lico Costinni
Judge to study move to end medical plan
Shawnee County District Court agreed to review the legality of terminating medical assistance for 5,600 Kansas poor families one day before the Jan 1 effective date. A Dec 31 hearing on a temporary restraining order was set after the Legal Aid Society of Topeka filed the class action alleging improper notice and arbitrary eligibility cuts.
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Topeka, Kan
Shawnee County
Kansas
Legal Aid Society of
Topeka
Robert Harder
Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Harder
Wichita
Kansas City
Brown urges new arms pact to curb missiles and numbers
Dr. Harold Brown, named President elect Carter's defense secretary, calls for a U S Soviet arms limit that would curb both the development and deployment pace of strategic missiles and bombers. He warns a qualitative race can be more unstable than a quantitative one and outlines general proposals to slow modernization.
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Washington
Harold Brown
Carter
Brown
Defense
U.S
Nixon
Ford
Soviet Academy of Science
Institute of U.S. Studies
Moscow
Fukuda named Liberal Democratic Party president in Japan
Takeo Fukuda, 71, selected by acclamation as president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, edging toward prime ministership after Takeo Miki's resignation following December elections. In other briefs, Botswana warns of Rhodesian spillover and a US espionage arrest, while the Argo Merchant oil spill draws congressional scrutiny and Coast Guard critique.
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Tokyo
Takeo Fukuda
Liberal Democratic Party
Fukuda
Diet
Japan
Takeo Miki
Liberal Democrats
Boston
Coast Guard
Argo Merchant
Massachusetts
Overnor
Thomas P. O’neill III
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C.K. Holland
Federal Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
CDC
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Nikita Kruschev
Kennedy
Weather Data
South Central
KIRG
Cair
Elizabeth Unruh
Tom Pierce
Bethel
E.J. Brubacher
Newton
P. O. Box
Paul] Hastings
Johannesburg
South Africa
Botswana
Rhodesia
Waliuti
France
Gaborone
Soviet Union
FBI
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
Edwin G. Moore
Bethesda
Uien
Moore
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