House approves sweeping food stamp reform bill
The House Agriculture Committee backed a broad revamp of food stamps, potentially disqualifying about 461,250 families and raising state costs by 120.9 million while trimming federal costs by 80 million. The plan shifts benefits, adds eligibility limits, and includes a strike-related disqualification provision.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
House
Senate
Hurricane Belle leaves path of damage along the Atlantic coast
Storm moves up the East Coast diminishing to a tropical storm after brushing New Jersey and Long Island. Three deaths reported from the storm and related accidents as power outages and flooding affect New York and New Jersey communities. In New Jersey the prison escape occurs during the event.
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Belle
New England
Atlantic
New Jersey
Long Island
Connecticut
Barbara Chamberlain
Russell
Huntington
Carol Mayer
Donna
Carolinas
Suffolk County
John Klein
Trenton State
Texas man surrenders in Oklahoma wife slaying
Donald Vaughn 36 of Gainesville Texas turned himself in to Love County authorities after his wife Teresa Vaughn 23 was found murdered in a car near Marietta Oklahoma. The couple's four children, ages 3 to 8, were placed in a children's shelter in Ardmore as an autopsy was set to determine the death's cause and time.
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Marietta
Gainesville
Vaughn
U.S. 77
Jack Caldwell
Liddell
Caldwell
Ardmore
Okla
AMA admits false JAMA circulation reports to Postal Service
An AMA lawyer says the American Medical Association filed false JAMA circulation reports to the Postal Service for about 230 weeks through 1974, underpaying postage by up to 450 thousand dollars. The admission followed an August 1975 letter and could implicate other AMA publications.
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Washington
The
American Medical Association
Postal Service
AMA
AMA Legal Department
Lee M. Mitchell
Associated Press
Mitchell
Joseph Breu
Chicago
AMA Board of Directors
JAMA
Reagan Forces Push Platform Planks At GOP Plaza
In Kansas City the Reagan faction fights to shape the Republican platform with planks on the Panama Canal detente school busing and abortion. Schweiker may submit a statement on detente while Ford allies push rules to bind delegates to primary winners.
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Kansas City
Ronald Reagan
Ford
GOP
Reagan
California
Panama Canal
Richard Schweiker
Pennsylvania
Robert D. Ray
Iowa
Schweiker
Ray
Washington
Soviet Union
Party Rules Committee
Convention Rules Committee
John Sears
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Charles Rose
D-N.c
John W. Jenrette Jr
D-S.c
Agriculture Department
USDA
Congress
Federal Energy Administration
Congressional Energy
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
FEA
White House
Esse Seveneer
Steel
Atlantic City
New York
Hugh Carey
Delbert Scrogham