Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Earlier this month, eight top Taiwanese athletes were invited by Peking to join China's national team trials for last week's Asian Games in Bangkok. All refused. After Carter's normalization announcement, Radio Peking trotted out two elderly former Nationalists, Liu Fei and Li Chung-lung, who said they would like to visit the island to "exchange views" with "old friends, including Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo," if the "Taiwan authorities" agreed. That offer was also flatly rejected by the Nationalists. Said Chiang Ching-kuo: "[There is] no way for me to allow these two traitors...
...coroner reported that Moscone had been shot in the right lung and the liver, then twice in the head at extremely close range. Milk had been shot three times in the body, then twice in the head, also at close range. The nine shots meant that White had reloaded his revolver after killing the mayor. At his arraignment, a controlled but subdued White asked for more time to hire a lawyer and decide how to plead to charges of first-degree murder. He was given until this week...
DIED. Robert Alan Aurthur, 56, television playwright, who wrote for such 1950s series as Philco Television Playhouse and Studio One; of lung cancer; in New York City. A Marine combat correspondent during World War II, Aurthur wrote short fiction for The New Yorker before becoming one of TV's Big Four dramatists (the other three: Rod Serling, Reginald Rose, Paddy Chayefsky). Aurthur's award-winning credits included Man on the Mountain top (1954) and A Man Is Ten Feet Tall...
...Special Public Service Award was given to U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Elliott L. Richardson and Dr. Theodore Cooper of Manhattan's Cornell University Medical College. In 1972, when Richardson was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and Cooper was director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the two inaugurated the National High Blood Pressure Education Program. With its educational and medical contributions, the program has since helped cut the U.S. death rate from heart disease by 15%, from stroke...
Both local opponents of the plant and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering introduced experts at the hearings who testified that levels above 200 micrograms per cubic meter of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere will aggravate lung ailments and reduce immunity to disease, particularly among children and the elderly...