House Gas Penalty Seen Cream Puff In Energy Bill
The House approved a provision setting 18.5 mpg as the 1978 model standard with fines of 5 dollars for each tenth mile per gallon short of target. A fleet shortfall triggers penalties multiplied by total cars made, likely raising prices for buyers. Debate split lawmakers on the measure as Ford presses for broader energy action.
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Washington
UPI
House
Congress
Detroit
Ford
Philip Sharp
D-Ind
Robert Krueger
D-Tex
Bill Frenzel
R-Minn
Frenzel
Joseph Fisher
D-Va
Helms returns for CIA inquiry in Senate hearing
Richard Helms, former CIA chief and ambassador to Iran, sneaked past reporters to testify again before the Senate Intelligence Committee on CIA actions from 1966 to 1973. Chairman Frank Church cites hard evidence of assassination plots, discussing The Rockefeller Commission findings and the Bay of Pigs linked Trujillo case.
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Washington
UPI
Richard Helms
Iran
Central Intelligence Agency
Senate
Senate Select Committee On Intelligence Activities
Helms
Frank Church
D-Idaho
CIA
Church
New York Times
Dominican Republic
Rafael Trujillo
Trujillo
San Cristobal
Senate Committee
Joint Atomic Energy Committee
Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
Congressional
Rockefeller Commission
Rockefeller
Langley
Johnson and Nixon
New York
New Orleans
San Francisco
Honolulu
John Mitchell
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rabin ties Sinai talks to Suez passage pledge
Rabin told reporters that Egypt must honor a secret Nixon pledge allowing Israeli cargoes through the Suez Canal before any new Sinai withdrawal agreement can be negotiated. He warned that without Egyptian concession there would be no interim deal, while still holding cautious hope and urging step by step diplomacy.
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Washington
UPI
Yitzhak Rabin
Egypt
Nixon
Suez Canal
Sinai
Rabin
Ford
New York
Cairo
Israel
Milk Regulations Scrutinized by Vermont Health Chief
Vermont Health Commissioner Anthony Robbins said he will review proposed rules on selling unpasteurized milk amid undulant fever scares. He questioned ease of sale measures while 19 dairy herds were affected and two farmer cases confirmed. Robbins urged Vermonters not to drink raw milk until standards on bacteria counts are set.
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Burlington
UPI
Vermont
Anthony Robbins
Robbins
State Agriculture Department
Indira Gandhi's Congress crushed in Gujarat elections
New Delhi India Prime Minister Indira Gandhi faces a double blow as her Congress party loses badly in Gujarat state elections with 74 seats to a United Front coalition's 87 and a court order puts her parliamentary premiership at risk while she appeals the corruption ruling.
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New Delhi
UPI
Indira Gandhi
Congress Party
Gujarat
India
Supreme Court
Congress
Legislative Assembly
United Front
Lee Gandhi
Cash crisis resolved at Green Mountain Power
Green Mountain Power Corp stockholders heard at the annual meeting that the firm no longer has a cash crisis. President Peter McTague cited the sale of nuclear power plant investments, reduced construction, less outsourcing, and deferred maintenance as stabilizing factors.
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Green Mountain Power
New England
McTague
Pleas for release reach U S Embassy in Tanzania
Two American students and a Dutch woman held by Marxist guerrillas appealed to their governments for urgent action to save their lives. Letters dated May 31 from Kigoma were delivered to both embassies, spurring ongoing, intensified efforts to secure the captives' safe release. The case, long deadlocked, shows signs of progress as negotiations continue with the Popular Revolutionary Party via Stanford University and other officials.
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Dar ES Salaam
Tanzania
UPI
Zaire
Kigoma
Nairobi
Peter Steiner
Stanford University
W. Beverly Carter
United States
Jan C. van den Berg
Netherlands
Popular Revolutionary Party
David Hamburg
Stanford
Steiner
Inside National to Connecticut law debate on meditation overtones
Civil libertarians challenge religious framing in a Connecticut meditation law while local pages cover summer unemployment claims, a Wadsworths feature, Dialogues closure regret, a note on new employment statistics, MAU seniors writing, and humor about an unlucky day. The county section notes Doll House permit, Veterans' Home honors, and a broad week of community events.
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Connecticut
Wadsworths
Meris Eggert
Pete Horton
MAU
Doll House
American Legion To Honor
Veterans
Cliff Fair
Henry Aaron
Armand Parnaude
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Gen. Trujillo
Kennedy
Eisenhower
White House
Suez
U.S
Henry Kissinger
Middle East
Kissinger
Pieter Platten
Phil Dewey
Bennington
Orejan
Doornhof Farm
Horton Hill Road
South Shaftsbury
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