World's Smallest Baby Jackie Feicht 34 Today
Jacquelin Benson Feicht once weighed 12 ounces at birth and survived months in an incubator. Now 34, she is a kindergarten teacher in Bristol, Wisconsin, childless but planning to adopt four American Indian siblings. Her fame sparked by a 10-ounce record rivaled by a newer baby who died.
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Deborah Rankin
Associated Press
Bristol, Wis
Jacquelin Benson Feicht
Jackie
Chicago
Sally B. Glaes
Seaside
Calif
Navy
Roger Glaes
Laura Elizabeth
Feicht
Milwaukee
Emil Daniel Feicht Jr
Notable deaths linked to a shared historic date
World Almanac notes Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was 83 and Adams 90. It recalls James Monroe dying in 1826 and Calvin Coolidge born in 1872. The piece also quotes a woman’s determined attitude toward helping an ailing puppy despite hardship.
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the World Almanac
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
James Monroe
Calvin Coolidge
Rumsfeld Calls Congress Wasteful in Funding Process
Anti poverty chief Donald Rumsfeld criticizes House and Senate funding procedures as inexcusably wasteful. He urges switching from fiscal to calendar year budgeting to reduce administrative burden and better aid for grantees and contractors. He notes his agency’s 1.9 billion appropriation bills faced delays and earmarks.
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Washington
Donald Rumsfeld
House
Senate
Rumsfeld
Illinois
Office of Economic Opportunity
Congress
Hickel Embraces Direct Action and blunt talk
Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel, born 1919 near Claflin Kansas, rose from a tenant farmer's son to governor of Alaska and cabinet member. He champions direct action, fights oil pollution, and says Alaska shapes his views despite Washington demands. He blends blunt honesty with a quick temper and few outside interests while cooking his famed Hickel Steak Dinner for guests.
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Associated Press
Washington
Walter J. Hickel
Hickel
Aska
Alaska
Nelson Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Everglades National Park
Toledo
Gulf of Mexico
Chevron Oil Co
Wally Hickel
Kibbutz Life Under Fire On Israel’s Beisan Front
AP report from Maoz Haim Beisan Valley details how Kibbutzniks live under nightly shelling since the 1967 war. Shelters multiply beside homes and dining halls, with bunk beds foam mattresses and classrooms, as farmers endure years of underground living in drought scarred lawns and built fortifications.
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Tony Pitch
Associated Press
Ma’oz Haim
Beisan Valley
Israel
Beisan
Middle East
Gilead
Haim
Orphans in Pakistan Adopted Casually by Scandinavians
In Karachi nuns at St Lawrence Convent report a small export trade of Pakistani babies to foreign parents, mainly Swedish couples. A boarding routine involves an informal adoption deed and district magistrate approval, with girls adopted more quickly than boys. The practice draws families from broken homes and poor mothers, and some children are raised as Catholics.
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Associated Press
Karachi
Pakistan
St. Lawrence’s Convent
Europe
Miss Mehta
Franciscian Sisters
Mami Mehta
Hegge & Co
Krachi
Ruth Holtel
Indiana
St. Lawrence Convent
Ruth
St. Lawrence
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Rumsfield
BY Stan Benjamin
Maryland
Potomac River
Chesapeake Bay
Philadelphia
Americas
Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta
John Hegge
Sweden
Soviet Union
London
Twinner
Henry
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