HEW to weigh nursing home rule changes amid pushback
HEW drafts 103 pages to simplify standards for nursing homes while critics warn deregulation could weaken safety checks and Medicare Medicaid oversight. Senators Boren and Bentsen push amendments limiting federal control with Pepper urging Harris to scrap the rules.
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Washington Star
Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Capitol Hill
HEW
Senate Finance Committee
American Health Care Association
David Boren
D-Okla
Lloyd Bentsen
Texas
House Committee On Aging
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
Patricia Roberts Harris
Pepper
Moss
District of Columbia
National Capital Medical Foundation
John Blampkin
Department
Harris
Boren
Bentsen
Welfare computer errors cause twenty five million overpayments
U S GAO auditors report flaws in a Welfare computer system allowing overpayments in SSI benefits. Dead case reactivations and manual adjustments led to $25 million in improper payments since 1974 plus $5.4 million due to tax-handling errors. Over four million recipients, two thirds elderly, rely on SSI.
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Washington
Congressional
General Accounting Office
Health, Education and Welfare
Patricia Roberts Harris
GAO
Detentions of gay visitors halted by INS directive
The INS issued a temporary directive barring the detention of homosexual visitors. The policy, read by Don Knutson of Gay Rights Advocates, halts the Aug 3 detention of two Mexicans at San Francisco Airport and suggests Congress must resolve the underlying exclusion law.
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San Francisco
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Don Knutson
Gay Rights Advocates
Eduardo Ramon Martinez
Arturo Javier Cruz Garcia
San Francisco International
INS
U.S
Julius Richmond
Carl Hill
London
Knutson
Hill
Justice Department
Washington
Carl Wack
Congress
Edison boyhood home found in Port Huron dig
Archeologists led by Richard Stamps uncovered 42 pieces of printer's type near Port Huron, identifying the ruins of Thomas A. Edison's boyhood home. Major portions of a mid-19th century house foundation were found, with an estimated quarter million artifacts recovered before the dig ended.
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Port Huron
Mich
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Detroit
Richard Stamps
Oakland University
William Scott to Undergo Open Heart Surgery Today
Chicago AP William Scott the Illinois attorney general entered hospital last week with chest pains and would undergo coronary bypass surgery today at Northwestern Memorial Hospital under Dr John Sanders. Frank Grenard said tests Tuesday led doctors to plan grafting another artery and bypass the major coronary artery as Scott battles angina pectoris.
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William Scott
Chicago
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Frank Grenard
Scott
Illinois
John Sanders
Grenard
North Side shop raided for military gear and weapons
Chicago police seized 50 000 rounds of ammunition and a large cache of firearms at Jack's Fence on the North Side described as wall to ceiling with military gear. Owner Jack Baumgartner, 31, was arrested and charged with unlawful use of weapons possession of firearms without a state ID and possession of a controlled substance. Police found six rifles more than 100 switchblades bayonets and vintage sabers and swords at the shop Tuesday night.
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Chicago
Jack Baumgartner
Jack’s Fence
Baumgartner
Police tip prompts search for unlicensed weapon sales
State Police said they went to the shop after receiving a tip that Baumgartner may have been selling weapons without a firearms dealer's license.
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Baumgartner
Illinois farmers vote on corn checkoff plan at fair
Gov James Thompson signed a bill enabling Illinois farmers to vote later this year on a corn checkoff of one quarter cent per bushel. The measure creates a Corn Marketing Board to oversee about 250000 in funds aimed at developing new markets, mostly overseas, for Illinois corn in the nation’s No 2 producing state with an expected 1.18 billion bushels this year.
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Edward J. King
Lansing
Mich
William Milliken
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Georgia
Springfield
Illinois
James Thompson
Thompson
U.S. Agriculture Department
Big Daddy Rat hog dazzles Baltimore with 1500 lights
Charlie Chisholm rims a 1962 Harley with 1450 lights a radio and CB to create a showy ride called Big Daddy Rat. The West Baltimore bartender says the bike may enter Guinness as world’s most unusually lighted street motorcycle. He tours civic parades fairs and openings and dreams of Cologne trips for profit or charity.
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Baltimore
Charlie Chisholm
Big Daddy
West Baltimore
Guinness Book of Records
Chisholm
Cologne
Germany
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Salinas, Calif
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