Heart patient blasts doctors for striking in California
A 61-year-old Open heart surgery patient from San Francisco denounces anesthesiologist strikes over malpractice insurance. He says lives are gambled with, while doctors call the walkout a protest against elective procedures. Strikes affect 50 hospitals with emergency surgeries only and threaten more closures.
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San Francisco
UPI
California
Ray Ruf
Donald Walker
Ruf
Elderly Woman Sought After Incendiary Device Left in Colorado Office
Police say 74 year old Janie Guess has traveled nationwide leaving odd items at offices including Lt. Gov George Brown and the state attorney general. A coffee can device contained rocks cotton and inert explosive material. Brown considers it a prank not a real threat. Police will detain Guess for mental health observation.
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Denver
UPI
Colorado
Art Dill
Janie Guess
State Social Services
Hwever
Guess
Dill Sai
Dill
George Brown
Brown
Traffic fatalities drop but bike and motorcycle deaths rise
Federal safety data show total transportation deaths in 1974 fell to 50,541 from 60,000 in 1973, a 16 percent drop and the largest yearly decrease since World War II. Highway deaths declined 18 percent to 44,950, while pedestrians, motorcycles, and bicycles added deaths in other categories.
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Washington
UPI
National Transportation Safety Board
NTSB
John H. Reed
Reed
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration
Clerics and medics fear death as study shows misperceptions
A UPI report notes 78 Canadian medical nursing and divinity students predicted their own death on mock death certificates. Most expected death to come late and quickly, with heart attack and accidents overestimated and stroke and cancer underestimated. Dr. Michael A. Simpson led the McMaster University survey.
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Washington
UPI
Grup
Studens
Heath
Michael A. Simpson
McMaster University
Hamilton
Ontario
Simpson
McMaster
Explosions Hit Mexican Embassy Chancellery and Soviet Aeroflot Office
Two small blasts damaged a window at the Mexican embassy chancellery and a window at the Soviet Aeroflot ticket office in Washington. No injuries reported and authorities say the incidents are not clearly linked. Police and Secret Service investigated and described the devices as very small with insignificant damage.
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Washington
UPI
Aeroflot Airlines
Secret Service
Distrct
Columbia
Executive Protective Service
Young Rockefeller buys antiques door to door in youth
Nelson Rockefeller recounts how as a Dartmouth graduate in 1930 he furnished his first home with early American pine and maple pieces bought door to door in Vermont and New Hampshire. He tracked costs on blueprints, asking his father to fund under a set total, then hunted attic finds in attics and barns. He found two pine grandfather clocks for 12 and 16 dollars and furnished Pocantico Hills home under budget.
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Rockefeller
Air Force II
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Pocantico Hills
Hudson River
Tarrytown
N.Y
Vermont
New Hampshire
Restored St Louis Courthouse Opens to Visitors
The old courthouse in St. Louis has been restored authentically for modern visitors per the Missouri Division of Tourism.
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Jefferson City, Mo
UPI
St. Louis
Missouri Division of Tourism
Ford backs trade act change to aid non cartel nations
President Ford voiced support for amending the Foreign Trade Act to restore favorable tariff treatment for Ecuador Iran Indonesia Nigeria and Venezuela despite their OPEC membership. He argued the current law unfairly targets non cartel nations and urged to avoid harming mutual interests in a speech to OAS foreign ministers at the White House.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Ecuador
Iran
Indonesia
Nigeria
Venezuela
U.S
Organization of Oil Producing and Exporting
Organization of American States
OPEC
White House
Congress
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Valley View RD
Pravel
By Bennett Millstone
Maui
Hawaii
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Piet Funmachine
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