Mondale meets Pope in Vatican City during Italy visit
Vice President Mondale met Pope Paul VI for almost an hour in the Vatican Library during a 24 hour Italian tour. The Pope praised President Carter's nuclear weapons reduction plan, calling it of immense service to the world. Mondale anticipated talks in London with British leaders on economics.
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Giulio Andreotti
Follies
Atlanta
FTC seeks to ban automatic spousal credit history in reports
The FTC proposed outlawing automatic inclusion of a spouse credit history in a partner’s file to reduce conflicts between the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act. It urged separate histories for women, ending practice of listing “John Doe: Spouse Mary” while ensuring access to individual records.
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UPI
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Mary
Equal Credit Law
FTC
Equal Credit Opportunity
Parole Granted for Watergate Figure Hunt
UPI reports E Howard Hunt, Watergate burglar and former CIA agent, is granted parole and expected to leave federal prison by Feb 25 after agreeing to pay a $10,000 fine. The decision leaves Ehrlichman and Liddy as remaining Watergate convicts still jailed. Estes parole status is not granted. his case is sent for hearing in Texas.
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UPI
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Billie Sol Estes
Estes
Texas
Leavenworth, Kan
White House
John Ehrlichman
Gordon Liddy
CIA
Nixon White House
U.S. Leads World in Jewish Population at 5.8 Million
The American Jewish Committee reports the United States has the largest Jewish population with 5,845,000, nearly double Israel's 2,953,000. World Jewry declined to about 14,145,000. North and South America hold 48 percent, Europe 29 percent, Asia 21 percent. In the U.S., Jews are 2.7 percent of the population.
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Asia
Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Sikes Loses Panel Bid Over Personal Gain Charge
Washington UPI report says Rep. Robert Sikes failed to win reappointment as chair of the military construction subcommittee amid concerns over conflicts of interest. Rep. Gunn McKay set to be named new chairman as Democrats vote 189 to 93 to reject Sikes. Sikes vowed to keep serving while leadership backed by Speaker ONeill and Jim Wright faced criticism from Common Cause.
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UPI
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Rep
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Sikes
Gunn McKay
Utah
Richard Bolling
Missouri
Bob Sikes
Congress
Thomas P. O’neill
Jim Wright
Reporter's killer claims news set up by contractor
John Harvey Adamson testified in a Phoenix preliminary hearing that contractor Max Dunlap ordered the killing of reporter Don Bolles. Adamson said he and James Robison carried out the bombing after Dunlap urged Bolles to be targeted over articles about Kemper Marley and the Emprise Corp. Marley, a state Racing Commission figure, resigns amid Bolles coverage. Dunlap faces no charges yet, while Robison is charged with using a radio transmitter for the detonation.
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UPI
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Don Bolles
Phoenix
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Adamson
Dunlap
James Robison
Chandler
Max
U.S. Rep
Sam Steiger
Emprise Corp
Bolles
Steiger
Buffalo
N.Y
Arizona
William Schafer III
Arizona Attorney General’s Office
Robison
Kemper Marley
Arizona Republic
Kemper
Marley
State Racing Commission
Jimmy
San Diego
Cold weather fuels odd fixes as energy crisis widens
United Press International reports Kentucky resident Eat hot sauce with his three dogs to keep a fuel tank from freezing while North Carolina resident Wilfred Smith and others struggle to heat homes. Volunteers aid about 600 Durham families with wood and fuel oil as officials seek ways to divert gas to the East Coast amid nationwide shortages.
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Kentucky
Minnesota
North Carolina
Wilfred Smith
Pennsylvania
Dingus
Hebron
Durham
N.C
Smith
Robert Young
Duke University
Young
Smith’s
Northwestern professor’s Holocaust hoax book stirs campus uproar
Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern University electrical engineer Arthur Butz defends The Hoax of the Twentieth Century as First Amendment speech while critics label its claims hoax and demand repudiation. Hillel signs a protest, with over 160 faculty and staff backing disassociation. Provost Mack cautions free speech can insult survivors. Butz argues Zionist groups shaped perception, denying extermination and Auschwitz deaths as natural causes.
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UPI
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Arthur Butz
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Butz
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Fomer Fcc
Northwestern
Raymond W. Mack
Chicago
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