Reagan and Carter Duel Across Three Primes in 1976
Reagan battles Ford in Georgia Alabama and Indiana with 139 delegates at stake while Carter widens his lead in the Democratic field. Ford faces late repower as uncommitted delegates loom in New York and Pennsylvania.
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Anchorage Daily News Wins 1976 Pulitzer Public Service
The Anchorage Daily News and its 20 person staff won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for public service for a major investigation into Teamster Union power and its influence on Alaska's economy and politics. Two other 1976 winners repeated earlier wins: Gene Miller of the Miami Herald and Paul Horgan in history.
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Weather and awards mix in a busy news brief
Partly cloudy with a chance of afternoon and evening thunder showers today and Wednesday. Highs near the upper 70s, lows in the mid 50s, winds 20 to 30 mph with higher gusts. Rain probability 20 percent today and 30 percent tonight. The Chicago Tribune staff won a prize for local reporting on housing abuses. A Chorus Line won the Pulitzer for best musical. Scott Joplin received a special posthumous Pulitzer for Treemonisha. Saul Bellow won for Humboldt's Gift. Pulitzer prizes were announced by Columbia University. Miller earned a 1976 citation for long investigative reporting that led to exonerations. Page 2 covers Pulitzer details. Washington: House approved a bill to reconstitute the FEC 291 to 81, sending to Senate. Ford's veto risk remains. The bill aims to restore campaign funding flow and increases changes to campaign finance law.
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Nixon Appeals to Supreme Court for Presidential Records
Former President Richard M. Nixon asks the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act. He contends Congress intruded on presidential independence by seizing control of 42 million documents and 5,000 hours of tapes. Only special prosecutor access has been allowed to the files.
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Italy Sets June Elections Amid Communist Role Talk
Rome officials schedule nationwide polls for June 2021 as Premier Aldo Moro’s caretaker cabinet signals possible Communist involvement despite U S warnings that power sharing could threaten NATO unity. In Madrid Basque separatists blow up a police car, killing Corporal Antonio Frutos, the ninth fatality of the year in Basque violence.
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Eritrean rebels free two Americans and a Briton
The State Department announced the release of Steven Campbell of San Leandro California James Harrell of Milwaukee and W H Burwood Taylor the British consul in Asmara who had been kidnapped July 14 1975 by the Popular Liberation Forces in Ethiopia. They were released in good condition in Sudan. Ronald Michalke another American technician abducted December 1975 remains detained.
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