Doctors Strike Shuts Dozens of NHS Emergency Rooms
A doctorsʼ overtime ban paralyzed parts of Britain's National Health Service. Interns and senior physicians rejected 40 hour weeks, forcing dozens of hospitals to close emergency facilities and transfer patients amid government warnings. Non medical staff threatened to deny services to private patients to protest the action.
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Michael Dennigan
London
UPI
National Health Service
Britain
Barbara Castle
Social
Labor
Castle
Copper Companies Oppose Air Regulations in Arizona
Arizona copper firms warn EPA limits could force the closure of three smelters including Kennecott Hayden and Inspiration Miami, and halt Cypress-Pima Mine operations near Tucson. Executives say proposed six hour testing bands and costly controls would drive closures and job losses in Douglas and surrounding communities.
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Phoenix
UPI
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Arizona
Tucson
Kennecott Copper Corp
Hayden
Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co
Miami
John Lentz
Phelps Dodge
Douglas
Lentz
Erlichman claims FBI chief Hoover threatened blackmail
John Erlichman says Justice official feared blackmail by J Edgar Hoover prompting Nixon to move sensitive wiretap files to a White House safe. He testified in a deposition reported by the Washington Post, linking taps to Kissinger and Halperin and noting 1969 to 1971 wiretaps.
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Washington
UPI
John D. Erlichman
Richard M. Nixon
Justice Department
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Nixon
Hoover
Erlichman
Washington Post
Morton Halperin
National Security Council
Halperin
Henry A. Kissinger
White House
Kissinger
Ehrlichman
Mardian
Robert C. Mardian
Dr. Kissinger
Foster parent plan halfway to create second whooping crane flock
The Fish and Wildlife Service reports the halfway point of a foster parent plan to build a second whooping crane flock. Four chicks hatched and raised by sandhill cranes are wintering at Bosque Del Apache Refuge in New Mexico. The plan aims to establish a Rocky Mountain population with the existing flock currently in Canada and Texas.
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Bosque del Apache, NM
UPI
Fish and Wildlife Service
Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge
Idaho
Corny
New Mexico
Rocky Mountain
Canada
Texas
Piano Care Against Dampness and Drafts
Keep your piano free from dampness and away from steam pipes stoves and drafts to protect its wood and soundboard. Ensure stable humidity and proper placement to prevent warping and tonal changes. Regular tuning and inspection help maintain instrument quality.
Handgun Law Clears Sub Committee In Senate Action
Washington reports a Senate juvenile delinquency subcommittee approved a measure to ban cheap handguns known as Saturday Night Specials, impose an 18 day waiting period, limit multiple gun purchases, and add five to 15 years for felons using firearms, sending the bill to the Judiciary Committee.
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Washington
UPS
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Philip Hart
D-Mich
Hart
Subcommittee
House
Lisbon Ends Siege as Crackdown on Rebels Escalates
Portugal lifts Lisbon state of siege and curfew while government hunts fugitive leaders. Four majors are arrested as authorities target Communist-linked figures in the military and media and push to purge leftist influence. Jornal Novo prints a special edition selling over 130,000 copies in hours.
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Nat Gibson
Lisbon
Portugal
UPI
Jose Costa Martins
Joao Varela Gomes
Armed Forces Assembly
Francisco da Costa Gomes
Jornal Novo
Socialist Party
Mario Soares
Communist Party
Soares
Spain lists three candidates to head Cortes for new king
King Juan Carlos will choose the Cortes president from Torcuato Fernandez Miranda Licinio de la Fuente or Emilio Lamo del Espinosa. Arias Navarro’s resignation as prime minister nears formalization as a new government forms after a secret 62 hour council meeting.
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Arthur Herman Madrid
Spain
UPI
Council of the Realm
Juan Carlos
Juan Carolos
Cortes
Torcuato Fernandez- Miranda
Carlos Arias Navarro
Europa Press
Fernandez- Miranda
Licinio de la Fuente
Emilio Lamo del Espinosa
Common Market plans single passport for nine nations in 1978
Leaders of the European Common Market agreed to issue a single passport from 1978 for citizens of nine countries while delays blocked direct elections to the European Parliament. Britain and Denmark abstained from the May 1978 election plan and talks on energy council seats continued amid tension with France and West Germany seeking a compromise for Harold Wilson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Sakler
Rome
UPI
Britain
Denmark
Paris
West Germany
France
Harold Wilson
Roosevelt's Daughter Anna Roosevelt Halsted Dies at 69
Anna Roosevelt Halsted, 69, daughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, died of cancer at Montefiore Hospital New York. She edited the Seattle Post Intelligencer women's page for seven years before joining her father as private assistant in 1943 and accompanied him to the Yalta Conference in 1945. She later built a career in public relations and broadcasting including a radio program with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1948.
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New York
UPI
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Montefiore Hospital
Halsted
Roosevelt
Women’s
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Yalta
Eleanor Roosevelt
Walter Scott slashes wrists in Las Vegas incident
Scott, 42, brother of activist Jack Scott who had ties to Patricia Hearst, cut his wrists with scissors in a crowded boulevard mall. He was hospitalized in satisfactory condition at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital after police escorted him there. He had been voluntary admitted to a psychiatric ward last week following gunfire at his apartment and claims of a killer targeting him.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
Walter Scott
FBI
Patricia Hearst
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Scott
Jack Scott
Boulevard
City Enforces 24 Hour Leash Law in Sand Point
Pet notice lists dogs described as Border Collie medium size male, Large German Shepherd male, Yellow German Shepherd and mixed medium size. Leash required citywide. No dog on city beach. only in vehicle allowed. Call 263 2114 for details. Dogs may be picked up at the pound all day, closed 5 p.m. to 9 a.m.
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City of
Sandpoint
Horizon Land Suit Settled in Arizona federal court
U.S. District Judge James A. Walsh approved a class action settlement for 39 000 Horizon Corp land buyers in developments near El Paso Texas and Albuquerque New Mexico. Dissatisfied buyers may exchange purchases if a committee approves claims of false or misleading statements by Horizon reps. The suit covered buyers from October 31 1971 to February 28 1975 filed by Edna M. O'Neil and Mr and Mrs Donald R Beeman.
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Tucson, Ariz
UPI
U.S. District Court
James A. Walsh
Horizon Corp
el Paso
Tex
Albuquerque
Betwen
Edna M. O’neil
Donald R. Beeman
Horizon
New Mexico
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Douglas Middleton
EPA
K.H. Matheson
Kennecott
Sandhills
Army
Air Force
Bank
Union Fernandez
Falange Movement
Fernandez-Miranda
Coeur d’Alene Western Metro Guard Dog Service
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Wilson
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