Spotlight World Roundup of Health Policy and Politics
Washington reviews easing medical marijuana rules as FDA advisory committees meet. Houston reports a severe new infant disease Group B Strep affecting 15,000 babies yearly with high mortality and disability. Carter administration plans sweeping drug law changes to curb secrecy and speed approvals. AFL-CIO COPE weighs in gubernatorial race. Ford teases Carter in golf event. Red Skelton critiques TV. Sears discrimination case moves forward against NOW, EEOC. Boston University medical school admits bias in donor gifts. Texas teachers association withholds tapes of governor candidates. Navy and Guadalcanal veteran Calvin Graham case revisited. Americans adjust spending toward housing and transportation over essentials.
Border crossed at six points by Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Israeli ground forces moved about five miles into southern Lebanon crossing at six points from Naqoura to Alhiyam as air strikes deeper followed. Defense leaders claimed key guerrilla bases overrun with casualties on both sides while planning a five mile cordon sanitaire north of the frontier to link Christian enclaves. International appeals and Palestinian reports painted a broader, escalating battle along the coast and near Tyre.
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Joel Epstein
Associated Press
Tel Aviv
Israel
Lebanon
Naqoura
Mediterranean
Alhiam
Ezer Weizman
Mordechai Gur
Naqaoura
Bent Jbeil
Maroun al Ras
Khiam
Ebl
Saqi
Gur
Weizman
Beirut
Salim el Hoss
Elias Sarkis
Radio Israel
Yasser Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Arkoub
Tyre
Rhodesia Agreement Stirs UN Vote And Absent Allies
The United States Britain and three allies abstained as 10 Security Council members denounced the Salisbury deal. Nkomo and Mugabe urged no talks while Smith and moderates pressed toward universal suffrage by year end. The U N vote backed the resolution despite abstentions by France Canada and West Germany.
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United Nations
United States
Britain
Security Council
Ian Smith
Rhodesia
Smith
Salisbury
London
Patriotic Front
David Owen
France
Canada
West Germany
Gabon
Mauritius
Nigeria
India
Kuwait
Bolivia
Venezuela
Soviet Union
China
Czechoslovakia
Nkomo
Mugabe
U.S
Andrew Young
Standby fares cut on Houston London by British Caledonian
British Caledonian Airways plans roundtrip standby tickets for Houston to London at 318 dollars starting Friday. The move follows a cooling in the Texas English air fare war that had grounded Braniff International's London service. Braniff hopes to start Dallas Fort Worth to London nonstop service by week’s end, with earlier roundtrip standby fares of 399 from Houston and 349 from Dallas.
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Houston
British Caledonian Airways
London
War
Braniff International
Braniff
Opti
Mistic
Dallas
Dallas-Fort Worth
Jere Cox
Airlines
Cox
Comrades in Jail Moluccans Warn of More Terrorist Raids
Dutch officials and South Moluccans warned of further attacks after a commando raid freed 70 hostages within 29 hours of their imprisonment in a government building. The assault, led by marines from an anti terror unit, ended a double siege and left one city planner dead.
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Assen
Netherlands
The
Chris van der Veen
Dini Huisjes
Karel de Groot
South
Molucca Islands
Indonesia
Washington expects measured Israeli retaliation after PLO raid
Washington officials were not surprised by Israel's attack on PLO outposts three days after a PLO raid killed 33 Israelis. The State Department said no one wants to heighten civilian suffering and officials hope for surgical precision in retaliation.
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Begin
Haifa
Tel Aviv
Washington
PLO
Israel
Cyprus
U.S
Palestine Liberation Organization
State Department
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Food and Drug Administration
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COPE
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Hill
Jacksonville
Fla
Gerald R. Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ford
Nashville
Tenn
Red Skelton
Grand Ole Opry
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Sears, Roebuck and Company
National Organization For Women
NOW
New York Times
Sears
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EEOC
Boston
Boston University
John Silber
BU Exposure
Austin
Texas
Texas State Teachers Association
Texas Educators Political Action Committee
TEPAC
Russell Owen Jr
Navy
House
Calvin Graham
South Dakota
Graham
Guadalcanal
Labor Department
Lishing
Rashadiyeh
U.N. Action
Joshua Nkomo
Robert Mugabe
Owen
Utah State Prison
Gary Gilmore
William Andrews
Tex
Dale Pierre
Brooklyn
N.Y
Wim van Leeuwen
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