California Doctors Confront Malpractice Crisis Meeting
United Press International reports the malpractice insurance strike spreads to New York and Texas while California faces upheaval. The California Medical Association held an emergency session as a temporary insurance pool stalls. State official Wesley Kinder delays activation due to doctor complaints. Hospitals brace for continued turmoil as LA hosts a key association meeting.
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United Press International
New York
Texas
California
California Medical Association
Wesley Kinder
Los Angeles
Downstate doctors plan job action over malpractice costs
Doctors across downstate New York plan a Sunday start to a job action to protest rising malpractice insurance rates. A spokesman for the New York State Crisis Committee on Medical Malpractice Insurance said the plan includes slowing work and suspending nonemergency surgeries as a broader protest against high premiums and to push for legal reforms. The effort comes after talks with insurers and state officials and parallels actions in Texas and Ohio.
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New York
UPI
Norman 8. Blackman
New York State Crisis Committee On
State Insurance Department
Blackman
House of Delegates
New York State Medical Society
Austin
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Tex
Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists
San Francisco
California
Study says integration plans failures in major cities
Washington UPI report quotes James Coleman, author of the 1966 Coleman Report, stating that court ordered school integration is failing outside the South. He cites white flight to suburbs, induced integration, and growing resegregation across the 20 largest cities. Coleman blames white prejudice, discipline gaps among inner city students, and judicial overreach.
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Washington
UPI
South
James §. Coleman
Coleman
National Observer
Patman Considers Another House Run At 81
Washington Republic Rep Wright Patman the dean of the House at 81 says he may run for a 25th term if health and mood permit He reflects on losing the Banking and Currency chair to freshmen and credits Treasury Secretary Simon with ability while praising but opposing big banks and Nelson Rockefeller He was first elected during Hoover's presidency and was ousted for age during a recession.
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Washington
UPI
Wright Patman
D-Tex
Patman
Arthur Burns
Nelson Rockefeller
Treasury
William E. Simon
House Banking and Currency Committee
Herbert Hoover
Iran to buy U S intelligence equipment
United States officials report Iran signed a multimillion-dollar contract with Rockwell International to build a direct NSA staffed communications intelligence facility in Iran code named Ibex. The five to ten year program includes NSA personnel recruitment and potential interception of American and regional communications, with no immediate Defense Department involvement.
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Seymour Hersh
N.Y. Times
Washington
Iran
Persian Gulf
United States
Rockwell International
Anaheim
Calif
National Security Agency
Air Force
Air Force Security Service
State Department
Pentagon
Fort Meade
NSA
Army
Navy
Rockwell
Richard Helms
Central Intelligence Agency
U.S
Soviet Union
MIL
Israel
Savac
Defense Department
Office of Munitions Control
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