Death shows ant bite can kill at any age
Nancy Kay Nix, 30, died after a red ant bite in a neighbor's yard. Doctors cited anaphylaxis swelling heart, spleen, and lungs. Her mother and allergist warn adults face higher fatal risk and carry emergency meds change behavior.
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Nancy Kay Nix
Nix
Golder Ave
C.W. Nix
Redland Ave
Medical Center Hospital
Adhar Rana
Garden Lane
Rana
Medical Center
Steven Farren
Whirlaway Drive
Texas teachers test shows 47 percent lack basic skills
A Texas Education Agency report on prospective teachers finds 47 percent of 2,687 examinees failed the pre professional skills test. Only 1,440 passed. Hispanics 19 percent, blacks 10 percent, whites 62 percent passed. July tests for about 4,800 more students planned.
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Austin
Texas
State Board of Education
William N. Kemp
Houston
Will Davis
Texas Education Agency
Kemp
Sakharov Treatment May Include Hypnosis
A Soviet abuse of psychiatry expert says reports show the Kremlin may use drugs and hypnosis to force physicist Andrei Sakharov to recant his dissident views. The American Psychiatric Association voiced grave concern over alleged confinement at Semashko Hospital in Gorky with Dr Rozhnov visiting him, as officials assure Sakharov is well.
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Washington
Kremlin
Andrei Sakharov
Reddaway
American Psychiatric Association
Sakharov
Association
Committee On International
Gorky
Semashko
Rozhnov
Moscow
Francois Mitterand
Leonid Zamyatin
Mondale reshuffles Demos leadership at San Francisco
Walter Mondale moves to realign Democratic leadership as delegates gather in San Francisco to nominate him and Ferraro. He ousts national chairman Charles Manatt and creates a campaign head role for Bert Lance amid signs of internal party tension.
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San Francisco
Walter F. Mondale
Democratic Party
Geraldine Ferraro
Mondale
National Party
Charles Manatt
Manatt
Bert Lance
Jimmy Carter
Lance
United States
Carter-Mondale
Texas
Higher fees proposed for parking in Odessa downtown
Odessa's public works director Bobby Tucker asks city council to raise downtown meter fees from 1 cent per 12 minutes to 5 cents and increase fines from 50 cents to 3 to 5 dollars plus. Chamber task force chair John Landgraf supports turnover to free spaces, arguing meters ensure movement of parked cars. PARKING, Page 2A.
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Odessa
Bobby Tucker
Tucker
John Landgraf
Greater Odessa Area
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