Tentative Settlement in Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The tentative out of court settlement would pay living participants 37500 dollars who had syphilis 15000 dollars for those without the disease. The class action originally sought 1.8 billion in damages for 600 Macon County black men who were used in the study. About 100 participants remain alive. The settlement awaits final approval by the U S attorney general.
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Montgomery
Ala
Tuskegee
U.S. District Court
Macon County
U.S
Nomination Approved For Deputy ARA Post
The Senate Judiciary Committee favorably reported Majorie Lynch for deputy administrator of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. The Daughters of the American Revolution called the nomination an affront to patriotic native American women. Lynch became a U S citizen in 1948 and must still win Senate approval.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Majorie Lynch
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Hearst matriarch leaves $2.5 million in trusts to sons
New York AP reports Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. left $2.5 million in trusts to her three sons and families. Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of the late Mrs. Hearst, is not named but could share in estate through her father after his death. Mrs. Hearst died December 5. Patricia was abducted by the SLA February 4 and later claimed to join them.
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New York
William Randolph Hearst Sr
Patricia Hearst
FBI
Symbionese Liberation Army
Hearst
Patricia
Richard Burton and Princess Elizabeth deny engagement off
Richard Burton and Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia deny breaking up. She says they will marry after her divorce, while Burton refutes drinking rumors and confirms they remain together. Burton notes he has been abstinent since June.
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London
Richard Burton
Elizabeth
Yugoslavia
Richard
Neil Balfour
The
London Daily Mirror
Burton
Geneva
London Daily Mail
Elizabeth Taylor
the Mirror
New Governor Won't Move Into Mansion
Governor elect Ella Grasso plans to keep her modest Winstead home and use Hartford’s mansion only for official business She will take just a suitcase and toothbrushes to the mansion and commute as needed amid questions about housing logistics The article blends political notes with unrelated historical trivia about scrap metal and Chaucer.
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Windsor Locks
Conn
Ella Grasso
Poerce
Oalyi
Win
Hartford
Thomas
Butz Worried Over Decline in On-Farm Livestock Raising
Secretary Earl Butz says he is concerned that grain profits lure farmers away from raising livestock. In a Des Moines Register interview he urged keeping the cattle business in farmer hands and criticized selling cattle to feedlots.
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Des Moines, Iowa
Earl Butz
The
Des Moines Register
Butz
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Nancy
Geoffrey Chaucer
Deacon’s Bench
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