Hearst defense rests as trial nears jury
In San Francisco AP report defense ends its case against Patricia Hearst after alleging government misconduct over bank surveillance footage. Judge Carter rejects bid to dismiss indictments. Rebuttal and possible surprise witness loom as jury could be given the case by week’s end.
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San Francisco
Patricia Hearst
U.S
James L. Browning Jr
F. Lee Bailey
Albert Johnson
Miss Hearst
SLA
Camilla Hall
Johnson
Miss Hall
Purple bacteria spurs new solar energy dreams
SAN FRANCISCO scientists from the University of California Medical Center and NASA Ames Lab report the discovery of halobacterium halobium in Dead Sea microbes using a purple pigment bacteriorhodopsin to convert sunlight into electrical energy. This process may aid desalination, medicine, agriculture, and solar power.
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San Francisco
UPI
Dead Sea
University of California Medical Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ames Laboratory
Walther Stoeckenius
Mediterranean
Earth
Stoecknius
Woman Truck Driver Blocks Discrimination Claim Rally
Bitzy Gomez, a decade long trucker, breaks from male dominated unions and employers she sees as hostile to women drivers. She leads the Los Angeles Coalition of Women Truck Drivers with support from NOW to push back against stereotypes and discrimination.
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Bitzy Gomez
Eab
Big Rig
Los Angeles
National Organization For Women
Gunmen sought in execs kidnap in Venezuela
Police named two left wing militants Asdrubal Guzman Cordero and Angel Simon Marquez as abductors of American glass company executive William Niehous. Niehous, vice president of Owens Illinois in Venezuela, was drugged and seized by seven masked gunmen in Maracay. His family, bound and gagged, included his wife Donna and three teen sons. Passports were taken. No contact from captors yet.
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Caracas
Venezuela
UPI
American Glass Company
William Niehous
Asdrubal Guzman Cordero
Angel Simon Marquez
Maracay
Niehous
Toledo
Ohio
Owens Illinois
Donna
Niehaus
Federal rules urged to avert socialized medicine
Former federal health chief Dr. Charles C. Edwards argues in American Medical News that only tighter federal regulation can restrain escalating costs and prevent nationalizing U S health care. He proposes a National Health Authority modeled after the Federal Reserve to oversee a $135 billion industry amid calls for reform.
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Washington
Charles C. Edwards
The
American Medical News
Federal Reserve System
Edwaris
New York City
American Health Enterprise
United States
Edwards
Texas Barbed Wire American Medical Association
Senate OKs ID cards for aged and disabled
Ohio Senate approves a measure to issue four year non driving ID cards for seniors and the disabled. The $2.50 fee funds production. Cards carry color photos and data from licenses but are not valid for driving. The bill moves to the House while a constitutional energy bonds amendment goes to voters.
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Oks
Columbus
UPI
Ohio House
Harry Méshel
Youngstown
State Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Meshel
House
Two Nurses Named in VA Hospital Deaths Probe
Federal prosecutors identify two Filipino nurses under investigation in the Ann Arbor VA Hospital mass death case. Leonora Perez and Filipina Narciso, not charged, were questioned by a grand jury last November as FBI opened probe after 40-plus breathing failures and six suspicious deaths amid concerns of curare injections. Richard Neely, patient at the VA, said one nurse appeared July 30 and left after a suspected injection.
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Detroit
UPI
Veterans Administration Hospital
Ann Arbor
Leonora M. Perez
Chicago
Filipina B. Narciso
Ypsilanti
FBI
U.S. District Court
Richard Neely
Osceola
Ind
Neely
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