Senate approves broad antitrust bill after bitter debate
The Senate voted 19 to 6 to pass a sweeping antitrust measure after 11 days of debate. The compromise amends treble damages to cover only price fixing and fraudulent schemes, removes automatic pre merger restraints, but speeds civil actions and curbs private attorney contingency fees.
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Philip Hart
D-Mich
Senate
Mike Mansfield
House
Joint Conference
Justice Department
Ford
Robert Byrd
House extends controversial revenue sharing program
The House approved a four year extension of the revenue sharing program totaling 25 billion dollars to 38,000 localities and states. The bill blocks new civil rights or union wage conditions and avoids yearly congressional funding actions, sending the measure to the Senate.
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Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Congress
Ribicoff accuses U.S. over India's 1974 nuclear blast
Senator Abraham Ribicoff said the United States may have supplied materials that aided India's 1974 nuclear explosion. He cited heavy water shipments and an unverified link between U.S. exports and India's plutonium production, announcing findings as head of the Senate Government Operations Committee.
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Washington
UPI
United States
India
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Ribicoff
Senate
State Department
Carelessness blamed for plant leak at Pilgrim station
Plymouth Massachusetts workers blamed for a 150 gallon spill of low level radioactive water at Boston Edison Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant after a filtration valve was left open. No exposure occurred as staff wore protective gear. NRC says waste water rated 2 millirads and not hazardous. Spill cleaned with vermiculite and sealed for disposal.
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Plymouth
Mass
UPI
Bost Edison Co
Pilgrim
Boston Edison
Charles Newton
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Carl Abraham
Snow melt won't endanger Idaho residents says official
Federal and regional officials assure Upper Snake River Valley residents the Teton Dam breach and melting snow will not create dangerous pressure on reservoirs. Rod Vissin notes about 684,000 acre feet of flood control space in Jackson Lake and Palisades Reservoir is sufficient to contain runoff, with forecasts showing dry, cooler weather. The Bureau continues flood levee reconstruction at Hesse Robarts Rexburg and Blackfoot to protect prior repairs.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
UPI
Snake River Valley
Teton Dam
Regional Bureau of Reclama
Tion
Rod Vissin
Bureau
Snake River
Jackson Lake
Palisades Reservoir
Vissia
Boise
Teton River
Hesse-Robarts
Rexburg
Blackfoot
Journalist Robin Wright Detained and Expelled by Angolan Secret Police
In Luanda Robin Wright, a 28 year old American freelancer, spent 28 hours in detainment by Angolan authorities before being expelled. She described the experience as intimidating and noted she was briefly accused of CIA ties while being allowed one meal and minimal belongings, after arriving with mercenaries to cover MPLA mercenary trials. Wright works for the Christian Science Monitor and Washington Post.
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Lisbon
Portugal
UPI
Robin Wright
Cambridge
Mass
Luanda
Wright
CIA
United States
Africa
Popular Movement For the Liberation of
States
Angola
MPLA
Tropico Hote
Christian Science Monitor
Washington Post
Kissinger to Discuss Jailed Americans in Mexico Talks
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrived in Mexico City for five hours of talks with President on migrant workers and the condition of Americans jailed in Mexico during the final leg of his four nation Latin American tour.
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Kissinger
Mexico City
UPI
Henry Kissinger
Mexico
Acapulco
Luis Echeverria
Ford
Jose Lopez Portillo
Echeverria
Gandhi and Brezhnev Sign New Friendship Pact
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a declaration on further development of friendship and cooperation after four days of talks in Moscow. Gandhi described talks as very successful and cordial. The pact covers economic assistance and bilateral and international issues, with ambassadors to China to be exchanged, and will be released after Gandhi departs.
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Moscow
UPI
Indira Gandhi
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Sovia Union
India
Soviet Union
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