California Provisions Spark Bold Showdown Over Indoor Smoking
Californians rally over Proposition 5 a ban on most indoor public smoking, with big tobacco pledging up to 5 million in ads and 177000 from Reynolds. Polls show 58 percent in favor, 38 percent opposed, while supporters warn of wider world impact and costs to implement partitions and signs.
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Big Tobacco
Johnny Carson
California
R. J. Reynolds
Reynolds
Californians For Common Sense
Californians For
American Cancer Society
State Lung Association
Paul Loveday
McDowell
Utah
Minnesota
Loveday
New York City
Military programs doomed in defense authorization bill
President Carter faces near-certain loss as the Senate Armed Services Committee votes unanimously against restoring scores of military projects to the defense authorization bill. Defense Secretary Harold Brown urged reinstatement of about 2.2 billion in projects, but the committees sent identical bills to Congress, effectively vetoing the nuclear carrier funding Carter opposed.
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Carter
Senate Armed Services Committee
Defense
Harold Brown
House Armed Services Committee
Senate
House
Obesity heredity blamed less by researchers
Milwaukee AP report cites a three year study from Medical College of Wisconsin professors Alfred Rimm Arthur Hartz and Eldred Giefer showing environment and diet influence obesity more than genes. Parental guidance in food choices accounted for about 32 percent of variation in children with heredity at 12 percent. Diet without exercise noted as ineffective.
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Rimm
The
Medical College of Wisconsin
Arthur J. Hartz
Eldred E. Giefer
Hops Waste Could Build Boards Logs And Paint
British scientist Dr Griffin of Brunel University says spent hops from beer-making can be transformed into particle board for furniture and drying resins for paint. The waste costs brewers money but could replace imported materials and yield fuel logs when combined with hydrocarbons.
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Gerald J.L. Griffin
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Uxbridge
American Chemical Society
Griffin
United Kingdom
Royal College of Arts
London
Adrian Emek
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