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$950,000 message to doctors
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A jury which was urged to let
doctors know “we are not going to let people die because they
don’t have any money” has awarded $950,000 to the heirs of a
meningitis victim who died after she was turned away from a
hospital because she was poor.
The state circuit court jury found Friday that Dr. James Lee
had been negligent in the 1974 incident.
According to trial testimony, Lee examined Joy Noble at
Community Hospital of South Broward in Hallandale, then sent
her to Broward General Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, about 20
miles away.
Sydney blast kills 2, injures 6
SYDNEY, Australia — Two Sydney sanitation men were
killed — one of them “blown to bits" — when a bomb exploded
early Monday outside a hotel where 12 Asian and Pacific
government chiefs were gathered for a regional Commonwealth
conference, witnesses said.
Police reported six other persons injured in the blast, heard
four miles from the luxury hotel.
Jet avoids snowplow, crashes
CRANBROOK, British Columbia—The pilot of a jetliner that
crashed in flames while trying to land in a snow-storm probably
was trying to avoid hitting a snowplow on the runway, Pacific
Western Airlines officials said Sunday. Forty-one persons died in
the crash.
Israel slams U.S. oolicv
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel
declared Sunday that the United
States was “taking sides” in
Mideast peace negotiations when
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
last week condemned Israeli
settlements in occupied Arab
lands.
The accusation, contained in an
Israeli cabinet resolution, was the
sharpest one made so far against
Washington by Prime Minister
Menachem Begins eight
month-old conservative gov
ernment.
The resolution, adopted
unanimously at the regular weekly
cabinet meeting, was read
afterward by Begin to reporters.
His government declared its
“regret and protest” over Vance s
remarks ai a news conference
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Friday. Vance said Israel
settlements in occupied Aral
territories “should not exist” am
he supported a Palestiniai
homeland on land now controlle<
by Israel.
UMW rejects settlement,
coal shortages expected
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
bargaining council of the United
Mine Workers (UMW) union
overwhelmingly rejected a
proposed settlement of the
nationwide coal strike Sunday,
ordering President Arnold Miller to
commence new negotiations with
the soft coal industry.
The action came in the 69th day
of the strike, one day after the
Carter administration ordered
plans be drawn up for emergency
movement of coal to areas
running critically short of fuel
needed to produce electric power.
Actually, Sunday’s action was
only a reaffirmation of the
council’s initial rejection of the
three-year pact last Friday. At the
time, the council conducted a
straw vote, in which 33 of 36
members voted against the
contract. Because Miller was not
present for the session, the vote
had to be formalized.
The protracted coal strike by
some 160,000 miners — the
longest in the nation’s history — is
threatening some midwestern and
Appalachian states with critical
fuel shortages.
“It’s just too bad,” said a
i dejected Miller, who had refused
> to attend Friday’s session in a
i protest over what he called
i pressure tactics by miners who
I massed in the lobby of the union’s
headquarters here, demanding
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that the pact be voted down.
Miller, who had been pressing
for approval of the contract offered
by the Bituminous Coal Operators
Association, made little effort to
conceal his feelings about the
latest development.
“I did not enumerate it,” he
said, when asked to give the vote
by which the council rejected the
pact. “It doesn’t mean anything
anyway.”
Saturday, Miller had told the
Associated Press in a telephone
interview that he fears for his life.
“I’m not going to present this
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contract to the council under
conditions of mob rule,” he said at
the time.
Harrison Combs, general
counsel of the UMW, said the
contract was rejected by a 30-6
vote with three members of the
39-member council absent.
UMW Vice-President Sam
Church said wage provisions of
the proposed contract appeared
to be "generally acceptable” to
the miners but they objected to
provisions dealing with dis
ciplinary procedures and the
health and retirement funds.
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