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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1978
Page
3
Dr Mario Jascalevich once known as Dr X faces jury selection in a murder trial over five alleged curare killings at Riverdell Hospital from 1965 to 1966. Prosecutors contend he injected patients with a lethal muscle relaxant while he led surgery. A separate note records a wrestling bear incident at a church walkathon.
Star Files notes 1968 events: USSR celebration with extensive rocket rattling, Winchester chosen for future seminars on speech and language disorders in northern and western Virginia. Also recalls 1952 U.S. newsprint consumption at 5,988,471 tons and Handley High School senior play The Youngest starring Bessie Smalts Augusta.
AP reports the National People's Congress began its first session in three years with a noted openness and advance announcement. Hua Kuo-feng signaled a tougher stance toward Washington amid calls for modernization of the 3.5 million strong army and Taiwan's liberation.
More than 500 retired United Mine Workers members press for rejection of a tentative contract in Castlewood Virginia. They demand equalization of the 1950 and 1974 pension funds and warn of potential cross-state activism if their demands are unmet.
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