Marijuana Epidemic Among Young Americans
A(JBarbour) report warns of a growing marijuana epidemic among youths, with rising usage rates across 12 to 17 and 18 to 25 cohorts. It notes heavier use by males narrowing, farm to rural areas, and links to alcohol. The piece cites THC dangers, explains plant chemistry, and stresses early intervention despite mixed past findings.
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John Barbour
Associated Press
America
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Mitchell Rosenthal
Ira Mothner
Salvadoran Guerrillas Shrinking Fight In El Salvador
Leftist guerrillas show waning strength with no major territorial gains. A mid January offensive briefly took San Francisco Goleta before collapse. Reagan adds arms and advisers as diplomats warn of indirect Soviet influence and rising rightist security threats.
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Joe Frazier
San Salvador
el Salvador
U.S
Robert White
San Francisco Gotera
Jose Napoleon Duarte
Cuba
State Department
Soviet Union
Reagan
Central America
Massachusetts
Pacific
United States
Vietnam
Costa Rica
Honduras
Guatemala
Mexico
White
Carter
Guillermo Manuel Ungo
Democratic Revolutionary Front
Duarte
Carlos Humberto Romero
Romero
Oscar Arnulfo Romero
Gulf of Fonseca
Nicaragua
Ghost Killer taunts Atlanta police in child slayings note
A letter signed ghost killer taunting investigators was read on air and part published by Atlanta papers amid a police task force probing the slayings and a missing child. Clergy across Georgia led daylong prayers as communities mourned, while investigators consider whether all cases are linked.
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Atlanta
CBS
Wagatv
Atlanta Constitution
The
Atlanta Journal
Georgia
Frank Sinatra
Sammy Davis Jr
Sammy
Frank
WAGA
Constitution
Waterloo
Iowa
Washington, D.C
Cambridge
Mass
New York
Langston, Ohla
Chicago
South Side
George Busbee
Army shuts unisex latrines in West Germany
Lt General Julius W. Becton Jr orders commanders in VII Corps to end shared use of bathrooms latrines and showers by men and women. The move follows an August directive integrating 5400 women into coed barracks and latrines, amid concerns over privacy and perceived behavior.
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Atlanta Constitution
Stuttgart
West Germany
Julius W. Becton Jr
VII Corps
U.S
Europe
VII Corp
U S faced with looming national water shortage warning
U S water crisis warned by Wanda Phelan of the Water Resources Council cites surface and groundwater strains, pollution, and bureaucratic complexity. The 1978 report notes inadequate surface supplies across 21 regions, with over 2 million people relying on the Ogallala Aquifer as water tables decline.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Wanda Phelan
U.S. Water Resources Council
Phelan
Water Resources Council
United States
Midwest
Southwest
High Plains
Ogallala
Texas
South Dakota
Great Lakes
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Christ Universal Center
Angela Lenair
Paul Hall
Octavia Gentile
Hall
Army
W. Germany
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Dacron
Herrin
University Mall
Carbondale
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