Federal suit seeks Love Canal health records
The Justice Department sued the New York State Health Department to obtain studies on health of about 3,000 residents near Love Canal Niagara Falls. The government wants the records for its $124.5 million Hooker Chemicals suit over toxic dumping. State cites confidentiality and data redaction, while federal insists identification is necessary for causal linkages and public welfare.
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New York Times Service
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Justice Department
New York State Health Department
Love Canal
Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corp
Niagara Falls
N.Y
Hooker
New York State
Chemical Company
President Carter
David Axelrod
Senate
Marvin G. Nailor
Albany
Nailor
Two Philadelphia congressmen plead innocent in Abscam case
In Brooklyn federal court two Philadelphia Democrats, Representatives Michael Myers and Raymond Lederer, and three co defendants pleaded not guilty to Abscam related bribery charges. Also named were Louis Johanson Howard Criden Angelo Errichetti and a New Jersey state senator. Trials set for August and September with over 50 hours of taped conversations cited by prosecutors.
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Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Abscam
Michael “Ozzie” Myers
Raymond Lederer
FBI
Louis Johanson
Howard Criden
Johanson
Angelo Errichetti
Camden
N.J
New Jersey
U.S
Jacob Mishler
Myers
Errichetti
Criden
Ledere
Koch urges GOP to help cities in platform panel visit
Democratic Mayor Edward Koch spoke 36 minutes before the Republican Platform Committee at Federal Hall urging Congress to stop shifting burdens to cities. He supported Carter’s re election, declined to join the GOP, and warned that federal funding drains urban treasuries.
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New York
UPI
Edward Koch
Republican Party Platform Committee
Washington
Koch
Federal Hall
Republican Platform Committee
Congress
America
John Tower
R-Texas
Platform Committee
GOP
Bill Brock
Brock
Carter
Art Deco Panels Destroyed At Bonwit Teller Facade
Two 15 foot high Art Deco bas relief panels on the Fifth Avenue Bonwit Teller facade were smashed by jackhammers during demolition. Metropolitan Museum officials hoped to acquire them for the 20th century collection, valuing them at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Developer Donald J. Trump is tearing down the building for a 100 million dollar, 62 story project.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Bonwit Teller
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum
Ashton Hawkins
Donald J. Trump
Hearings Highlight Dump Site Toll On Families
James G. McCarthy of Jackson Township New Jersey testified at a Senate hearing on hazardous dump sites sobbing for his children. He described illnesses he links to nearby landfills including kidney disease miscarriages rashes and eye and ear infections. He reports using well water and notes toxic material in local soccer fields while pleading for federal and state aid after being told equipment was tied up at Love Canal.
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Washington
James G. McCarthy
Jackson Township
N.J
McCarthy
Senate
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Judiciary Committee
Love Canal
Niagara Falls
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Aliotos Hit With 3.55 Million Judgment
A Wyoming rancher won a legal malpractice suit in San Francisco, with a jury returning a 3.55 million judgment against former San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto and his son Joseph M. Alioto. The verdict was delivered Thursday in a case alleging professional errors in prior legal work.
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UPD
Joseph L. Alioto
Joseph M. Alioto
Wyoming
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