Carter Energy Scorecard Delivers Mixed House Senate Choices
Congressional panels weigh Carter energy measures as they pursue a compromise. The House supports a crude oil tax and consumer rebates, while the Senate rejects the tax and backs deregulating natural gas prices after two years. Conferees must merge differing proposals into a single bill.
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Washington
Carter
House Senate
House
Senate
Conference Committee
Brezhnev Proposes Moratorium on All Nuclear Explosions
Brezhnev opens the 60th anniversary celebrations proposing a global moratorium on all nuclear explosions including peaceful uses. He backs talks to stop underground blasts and urges a pact restricting tests, while noting the 1977 grain harvest shortfall and Soviet China tensions.
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Seth Mydans
Associated Press
Moscow
Leonid Brezhnev
Communist Party Central Committee
Russian Federation
Soviet
Communist Party
China
Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Andrei A. Gromyko
United Nations
Geneva
United States
County Schools Blame Wages for Financial Strain
Three Athens County superintendents cite state mandated salary increases and inflation as key drivers of district budget squeezes. Federal Hocking plans a 6.5 mill operating levy renewal while Nelsonville York and Alexander Local seek 5 mill levies.
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Athens County
Charles Caniford
Nelsonville-York
Alexander
Caniford
William Worstall
Alexander Local
Ransomed Dutchman Freed After Paying Ransom
Maurits Caransa, 61, a Dutch real estate tycoon, was released unharmed after paying a 10 million guilders ($4.16 million) ransom to four abductors who held him five days in Amsterdam. He said the group sought money, not politics, and claimed they spoke French and English.
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Netherlands
Maurits Caransa
Caransa
Den
Toorenaar
Red Army
Two Political Heavyweights Debate Ballot Issue I in Athens
In Athens on Tuesday, two political heavyweights debated the voter registration law Issue I, just one week before the election. Engineering consultants estimate the county may need an extra 207000 dollars from the state to fund three road projects.
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Athens
Health care column debuts in The Messenger
Seno reports a weekly health care advice column by Dr. Lamar C. Miller and Athens health commissioner begins in The Messenger on page 5.
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Lamar C. Miller
Ohio University’s
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Athens City County
the Messenger
Cubans Now Dine In DuPont Mansion
Cuban diners at Las Americas in the former Du Pont estate near Varadero Beach pay about $6 for red snapper and wine. The mansion, built 1929 by Irenee du Pont, houses paintings and photos. Castro’s government seized it in 1961 and kept it as a cultural symbol.
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du Ponts
Delaware
Fidel Castro
Las Americas
Varadero Beach
Irenee du Pont
du Pont
N.C. Wyeth
Cuba
Castro
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Xanadu
Khubla Khan
Place Xanadu
Massachusetts
Norma Fine
Boston
Kevin White
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