Nevada Senate backs ERA amid legal challenge on ratification
The Nevada Senate narrowly approved ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment as 38 states needed by 1979. Opponents vow to seek Nevada Supreme Court review to block the measure and prevent it from reaching the House, which has approved it before dying in the Senate.
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Nevada Senate
ERA
Nevada Supreme Court
State House of Representatives
Senate
Yugoslav dissident Djilas cites 600 political prisoners in Yugoslavia
Former Vice President Milovan Djilas told UPI that Yugoslavia holds at least 600 political prisoners, the highest in its modern history, with numbers rivaling the Soviet bloc. He urged Western European parties to press for human rights reforms while noting ongoing UN human rights sessions in Geneva.
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Yugoslavia
UPI
Milovan Djilas
Eastern
Europe
Djilas
Geneva
U.N. Commission On Human Rights
Aleksander Bozovic
Josip Broz Tito
Communist Party
Tito
Dijilas
Warnke vows arms cuts to boost U S security at Senate hearing
Paul C. Warnke told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that if confirmed as Carter’s chief arms control negotiator he would seek ways to limit and reduce arms to strengthen national security. He faced questions over past Pentagon Papers links, while President Carter voiced strong confidence in his proposals.
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Washington
Paul C. Warnke
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Carter
Warnke
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Soviet Union
John Sparkman
Pentagon
Daniel Ellsberg
Dr. Ellsberg
Robert P. Griffin
R-Mich
Arms Control Agency
John C. Danforth
R-Mo
Nke
Senate
EPA halts car assembly lines over emission prototype gap
The EPA pauses Ford Granada and Mercury Monarch production after tests show 13 of 18 cars from Wayne Michigan and Mahwah New Jersey facilities emit illegal carbon monoxide. The agency calls Round 2 testing to ensure off line cars meet prototype standards and recalls 54,000 vehicles. Ford says the issue is fixed and lines will continue.
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Washington
UPI
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Ford
John Quarles
Quarles
Wayne
Mich
Mahwah
N.J
Big snow threatens big flood warning across regions
United Press International reports that heavy winter snow across the Eastern and Midwestern states risks severe floods as a slow thaw could unleash ice packed rivers. Weather officials warn of potential dam and bridge strikes from Ohio River tributaries and areas from Lake Erie to Cincinnati, with snowdrifts both hindering and delaying runoff.
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Rockies
Lake Erie
Upstate
New York
National Weather Service
Ray Wrightson
Ohio River
Mississippi
Robert
White
Lake Erie- Ontario
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Mike Neyer
Indiana
Hustler editor Flynt jailed for obscenity sentence
Larry Flynt publisher of Hustler was sentenced to 7 to 25 years in jail plus an $11,000 fine after a Hamilton County jury found obscenity in his sex magazine. Co defendants were cleared. ACLU and some publishers condemned the verdict as a threat to press freedom.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Larry Flynt
Hustler Magazine
Flynt
Reader’s Digest
Hamilton County Common Pleas Court
William J. Morrissey
Althea
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
Los Angeles
Playboy
Hugh Hefner
Gunman Holds Real Estate Exec Hostage in Indianapolis
Anthony Kiritsis, a former West Point instructor, keeps Richard Hall hostage in a west side apartment with a neck-wired shotgun after abducting him from a downtown office. Police negotiate as Kiritsis claims a $130,000 debt and vows vengeance over a chequered mortgage deal.
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UPI
West Point
Anthony Kiritsis
Richard Hall
Kiritsis
Hall
West Side
WIBC
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