Broadcast equal time bid in Texaco dispute
Washington senators and Energy Action urge FCC to force ABC and NBC to air opposing views to Texaco anti breakup ads. The 54 page letter labels Texaco puzzle spots as editorials and demands counter coverage.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Communications Commission
Abc-Tv
Nbc-Tv
Texaco
James Abourezk
D-S.d
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Energy Action’ Consumer Group Coalition
Italy weighs abortion option for Seveso gas exposure case
Italy's Justice Minister Paolo Bonifacio said pregnant women exposed to the Seveso gas cloud north of Milan may receive legal therapeutic abortions if their mental health is endangered by the risk of delivering an abnormal child. A Lombardy medical commission warned of increased malformations in offspring above normal levels.
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UPI
Italy
Justice
Paolo Bonifacio
Milan
Bonifacio
Lombardy
Seveso
Senate approves public service jobs bill extension
The Senate passed a public service jobs bill 67 to 11 extending the program through September 1977. The measure moves to conference with the House which would limit extension to next month. President Ford had urged continuing at current level only through January and then phasing out by late September 1977.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
House
Ford
Kissinger Arrives in Netherlands for Greece Turkey Talks
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger lands at Schiphol after flying from Deauville to discuss the Greece Turkey oil rights dispute in the Aegean. He says the United States backs European unity and will cooperate with the European Community.
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Netherlands
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
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Greece
Turkey
Aegean Sea
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Schippl
Deauville
France
Holland
United
United States
European Community
Carter Proposes Sunshine Law And Ethics Reform
President Carter in a keynote to the American Bar Association calls for a sweeping ethics package. He urges a sunshine law, banning gifts, full disclosure of business ties, ending sweetheart regulatory arrangements, and tighter lobbying controls to restore faith in government.
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American Bar Association
Carter
House votes to bar federal funds for abortions
The House approved a 223 to 150 vote to ban federal funding for abortion in a 56.6 billion Labor HEW bill. The measure, likely vetoed if sent to the Senate, faces rejection or compromise after Senate inaction. Rep. Hyde calls abortion violence while Rep. Pritchard says the ban harms poor women.
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UPI
House
Senate
Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
Ford
Joel Pritchard
Rwash
Henry Hyde
Henry Hyde, B-Ill
Favored firm said to get Army deal, not low bidder
A House committee report says the Army steered an $11 million mobile field radio contract to a favored company despite lower bids from a Massachusetts competitor. The March 1974 award covered over 15,000 radios for foreign customers under military sales programs, raising questions of fairness and favoritism.
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UPI
Army
Massachusetts
House Committee
House Government Operations Committee
Caimed
Bristol Electronics Inc
New Bedford
Mass
E-Systems
Memcor
Huntington
Bristol
General Accounting Office
GAO
Jack Brooks
D-Tex
Esystems
Brooks
Defense
Harold L. Brownman
Ana
Northeast Midwest coalition urged to curb economic bias
Rep. Michael J. Harrington and House Banking Chair Henry S. Reuss urged nearly 200 lawmakers to form the Northeast Midwest Economic Advancement Coalition to address perceived federal policy biases. They cited higher industrialized-state tax contributions and lower returns, calling for reforms in grant formulas defense contracts and spending to aid the Northeast and Midwest regions.
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Washington
UPI
Michael J. Harrington
Dmass
House Banking Committee
Henry S. Reuss
D-Wis
Northeast
Harrington
Reuss
Congress
New England
Great Lakes
Mid-Atlantic
Midwest
Doctors fear abortions abused over sex selection
Doctors at a genetics course in Bar Harbor Maine worry a new amniocentesis test used to determine fetus sex could lead to abortions based on undesired sex. While some doctors defend sex selection as legal, others fear it may prompt court or congressional action. The trend is not widespread but may grow, with pressure from patients and some physicians.
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Bar Harbor, Maine
UPI
Schorr declines to testify citing first amendment rights
UPI reports Daniel Schorr told a meeting he will not testify to House investigators about how he obtained a report printed by a New York paper. He says he would refuse even under subpoena, citing sources and First Amendment concerns. CBS suspended him amid the probe by the House Ethics Committee.
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UPI
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Congressional
House Select Committee On Intelligence
New York
Schorr
CBS _ television
Individual Rights and Responsibilities
American Bar Association
House
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Village Voice
House Ethics Committee
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