Minority Legislative Education Program trains future lobbyists on Capitol Hill
The Minority Legislative Education Program on Capitol Hill offers a seminar and job placement for aspiring lobbyists. It teaches how to influence legislation, fundraise, and use the tax code, with nonpartisan aims and support from corporate and foundation grants.
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Don McLeod
Associated Press
Washington ‘Ap
Capitol Hill
Robert McAlpine
National Urban League
MLEP
Urban League
Clark
Congress
Association of Black Psychologists
National Coalition of Urban Indians
Black United Fund
Pay gaps in Congress top staff pay revealed
Washington AP reports a House panel survey finds male top staffers earn 18 to 129 percent more than women in same posts. Administrative assistants average 39 000 for men vs 17 000 for women. legislative assistants 20 000 vs 17 000. press aides 20 000 vs 17 000. The commission weighs a three member grievance panel with limited enforcement to handle anti discrimination complaints and refer violations to the Ethics Committee.
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Washington
House
House Commission On Administrative Review
Commission
House Ethics Committee
David Obey
D-Wis
Wayne Hays
Thatcher's Rise Prompts English Political Debate
The piece notes Margaret Thatcher's strong House of Commons performance shaking Labour and calling the social contract into focus. It contrasts British parliamentary norms with American presidential trials and cites Mount on social democracy versus socialism, signaling warming political tensions in England as summer arrives.
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London
Jimmy Carter
Congress
Great Britain
House of Commons
Margaret Thatcher
James Callaghan
Denis
Thatcher
Healey
Labor
GNP
Ferdinand Mount
Mr Mount
Labor Movement
Hitler named dictator as Hindenburg dies in 1934
On August 2 1934 Adolf Hitler became dictator of Germany after President Hindenburg’s death. The date also marks Henry Hudson entering Hudson Bay in 1610 and Einstein’s 1939 letter to Roosevelt urging atomic research.
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Adolf Hitler
Germany
Paul von Hindenburg
Henry Hudson
Hudson Bay
Albert Einstein
Franklin Roosevelt
U.S
John Dean Sentenced in Watergate Case
Former White House Counsel John Dean received a one to four year prison sentence in Washington for his role in the Watergate coverup. The item notes Vietnam reunification a year earlier and includes birthdays for James Baldwin and Myrna Loy. Also quotes Lyndon Johnson on peace.
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White House
John Dean
Washington
North
South Vietnam
James Baldwin
Myrna Loy
Lyndon Johnson
Freedom Inside the Organization Prompts Rights Debate
Harvard Business Review editor David W. Ewing argues for a workplace bill of rights to protect employee civil liberties. He cites court gains in worker rights and notes firms like IBM Polaroid Xerox Corning Glass Donnelly Mirrors American Airlines Lincoln Electric recognizing due process privacy and free speech. He links concerns to Watergate era ethics and suggests progress from totalitarianism to democracy in corporate culture.
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New York
David W. Ewing
Ewing
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business School
Harvard Law School
International Business Machines
Polaroid
Xerox
Corning Glass
Donnelly Mirrors
American Airlines
Lincoln Electric
Rhodes Plans Gas Saving Legislation for Ohio Homes
Ohio lawmakers back a McLin Nabakowski bill to cut private home natural gas use by about 40 percent with energy standards for new one to three family houses. The measure sets rules to be adopted by March 1 and fully enforceable 120 days after, around July 1978, with penalties for noncompliance and optional site inspections.
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Columbus
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
C.J. McLin Jr
Dayton
Ronald L. Nabakowski
Lorain
Senate
Rhodes
Ohio Board of Building Standards
Nabakowski
McLin
Riviera guest shortage fuels a Bing Crosby dinner net
The column recounts a Riviera guest drought driving up the value of celebrity dinners. A Yale ’38 writer negotiates Crosby's appearance at a Red Cross gala with Mrs. Max Kettner, aiming for cocktails and dinner for about 1500 to 1750 dollars, and Crosby remains unaware of his true market worth.
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Art Buchwald
Bikini
Supreme Court
Riviera
Elsa Maxwell
John Crosby
Monte Carlo
Red Cross
Sammy Davis Jr
John
Max Kettner
New York
Crosby
Bing Crosby
Princess Grace
Bill Paley
Pam Harriman
Trudeaus
Yale
Hotel de Paris
Sam Spiegel
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McAlpine
Craig Burdhette
Harvard
Self Determination
D.C
Burdette
Dick Clark
Common Cause
Obey
Newsmen
Bill Frenzel
R-Minn
Justice Department
The
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Frenzel
Executive Branch
England
Sweden
West Germany
Small Society
Araise
Business Mirror
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