The House-Senate conferees now attempting to reconcile twoprofoundly flawed Medicare bills should go back to the drawingboard and use as a blueprint the 1999 majority recommendations ofthe National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, whichproposed that Medicare beneficiaries be given a choice betweentraditional Medicare as it exists today and new, private plansoffering comprehensive, integrated benefits including fulloutpatient prescription drug coverage.
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A look back on the coverage of the Malcolm X assassination as told by the Chicago Daily News, sister publications of the Chicago Sun-Times:
Malcolm X may not have been a Chicagoan, but given his ties to Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, which was based on the South Side, he passed through the city often enough.
The fiery speaker and activist was assassinated by several rival Black Muslim members in a crowded ballroom during an Organization of Afro-American Unity rally in New York City on Feb. 21, 1965. The next day, the Chicago Daily News devoted most of its front page to coverage of his death.