Hotel And Motel Association Joins Liquor Fray In Kansas
The Kansas Hotel and Motel Association filed a motion for more time to prepare written arguments in the challenge to the liquor in restaurants law. The court granted intervenor status, allowing the association to participate against the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division director in a case initiated by the attorney general. The action raises a constitutional question of first impression with broad public interest.
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Topeka
Kan
State Supreme Court
Kansas Hotel and Motel Association
Attorney General’s Office
Alcoholic Beverage Control Division
John R. Martin
Kansas
Pneumonia Scare Prompts Vaccine Focus Worldwide
Doctors warn of two new antibiotic resistant pneumonia germs found in Johannesburg in 1977 and spreading globally. The pathogens resist penicillin with only highly toxic drugs effective, pushing vaccination as the practical defense per CDC and University of Pennsylvania study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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South Africa
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
New England Journal of Medicine
Crime Eroding Health Care Infiltration By Organized Crime
Washington AP reports a congressional survey shows organized crime increasingly taps federal health care plans. Losses in Medicare and Medicaid exceed 3.6 billion dollars annually with infiltration in nursing homes pharmacies labs and hospitals across 31 states. The HEW inspector general cites two thirds of fraud losses, while Attorney General Bell notes possible mob involvement but declines to quantify.
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Washington
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
House Aging Committee
Pepper
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Inspector General
Griffin Bell
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