Carter Eyes Meeting With Dissident Bukovsky Amid Rights Push
President Carter signals openness to meeting Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky while pursuing a new strategic arms agreement. State Department voices concern over Moscow’s treatment of human rights detainee Alexander Ginzburg and urges action. Senator Henry Jackson urges strong steps for Ginzburg’s release.
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State Department
Alexander Ginzburg
Moscow
Ginzburg
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Jackson
Gerald Ford
Henry Kissinger
Ford
Solzhenitsyn
Labor battle peaks as steelworkers elect chief
Ed Sadlowski and Lloyd McBride faced off in a high stakes UPI report on the United Steelworkers union presidency. Balloting among nearly 1.4 million workers occurred across about 5,400 locals in the United States and Canada with results due unofficially before next week’s contract talks and formally in May.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Ed Sadlowski
United States
Canada
Mashpee Residents Pressure Kennedy Over Indian Suit
Mashpee residents told Senator Kennedy that a pending Wampanoag land suit threatens 15,000 acres, clouding titles and halting real estate, mortgages, and foreclosures. They seek immediate relief and a federal mediator to settle the dispute, while some see no progress.
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Boston
UPI
Mashpee
Cape Cod
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Thomas O'Neill III
Henry Ehrisman
Soviet cosmonauts plan rendezvous with space station
Soviet cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 24 corrected their course for an expected rendezvous with Salyut 5. Col. Viktor Gorbatko and Lt. Col. Yuri Glazkov had circled Earth 12 times by midday and reported onboard systems normal. The crew, launched Monday, continued docking preparations while Tass withheld timing.
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Moscow
UPI
Tass
Viktor
Gorbatko
Yuri Glazkov
Earth
Soviet Union
Carter's plan to reorganize federal government urged
President Carter discussed his government reorganization plan with congressional leaders and faced mixed lines of support. House Government Operations Chair Jack Brooks said leaders likely back the plan, while stressing changes require votes from both houses before approval. Carter also named Turner CIA director and pressed for bureau cracy trimming at a Cabinet meeting.
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UPI
Carter
Jack Brooks
Dtex
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Operations Committee
House of Congress
White House
Congress
Senate
Huang Chen
China
United States
Anatoly Dobrynin
Cyrus Vance
John Brademas
Brooks
Adm
Stansfield Turner
CIA
Cambridge OKs genetic research by MIT and Harvard
Cambridge approves recombinant DNA research by Harvard University and MIT after City Council support and a changed vote by Mayor Albert Vellucci. Guidelines align with NIH and Cambridge Laboratory Experiment Review Board rules amid strong debate about safety and potential hazards.
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Cambridge, Mass
UPI
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Albert Velluci
Vellucci
National Institute of Health
Cambridge Laboratory Experiment Review Board
Stop ERA Boycott Hits Girl Scout Cookie Sale
In Savannah Chatham County activists from the Stop ERA group vote to boycott Girl Scout cookies until the Scouts board rescinds its ERA endorsement. Spokeswoman Mrs. Bess Militades says Savannah shoppers should ignore the annual sale, a major fund raiser for the organization.
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Savannah, Ga
UPI
Chatham County
Scouts’ National Board of Directors
ERA
Savannah
Julia Gordon Howe
Girl Scout Movement
Bess Militades
County
Militades
U S cuts farm water in major drought hit area
In Sacramento, the federal Bureau of Reclamation slashes water allocations to Central Valleys farmers by 75 percent due to California drought. The measure threatens vegetable, fruit and cotton supplies and could push higher food prices nationwide. Project officials warned rainfall would modify the cutback. absent rain, further reductions are possible.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
California
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
San Joaquin Valley
Bureau
Central Valleys
David Schuster
Schuster
Ford admits mistakes and regrets Solzhenitsyn visit
Former president Gerald R. Ford, at Yale as a Chubb Fellow, admitted errors in office and said he would rearrange his schedule to meet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He apologized for missing the chance, cited Vietnam handling regrets, and urged Republican revival.
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New Haven
Yale University
Jerry Ford
White House
Chubb
Ford
Oval Office
Richard Nixon
Carter
Yale Daily News
Yale Law School
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn
Yale
South Vietnam
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