Carter asks tax funds to bail out Social Security system
President Carter asks Congress to appropriate carefully limited income tax funds to bail out Social Security as cash reserves may run out in the early 1980s. He proposes six steps including compensating trust funds from general revenues, removing the wage base ceiling for employers, increasing the wage base, shifting Medicare funds, raising self employed tax, and tightening law provisions to fix short term financing.
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Carter
Washington
UPI
Congress
White House
Social Security
Social Security Trustees
Secretaries of Health, Education and Welfare, Labor
Treasury
Seven nations pledge unity to spur growth and cut unemployment
At a London summit the leaders of seven industrial nations vowed cooperative steps to achieve sustained noninflationary growth, avoid higher tariffs, and use IMF support to cushion trade deficits from high oil prices. They aimed to lift Britain France Canada and Italy from recession without inflation, while Obama…
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London
United States
West Germany
Japan
Britain
France
Canada
Italy
Whitehall
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Carter
International Monetary Fund
Imagined UFOs and Indian History Highlight Vermont Symposium
Francis Jennings opened a Bennington symposium at Southern Vermont College urging imagination about alien visitors who land, claim land, impose culture, and spread disease, framing three centuries of depredations on American Indians. The two-day event, funded by Vermont humanities councils, begins a focus on indigenous history and contemporary issues.
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Southern Vermont College
Bennington
Francis Jennings
Center For the History of American Indians
Newberry Library
Chicago
Jennings
William Fenton
Suny At
Albany
Joyce Sparer Adler
Shaftsbury
Philip Tarbell
New York State Education Department
Disease risk cited at Seabrook armories protest
Dr. Stephen Schoenbaum, an infectious disease expert, told U.S. District Court Judge Hugh Bownes that crowded conditions in five New Hampshire National Guard armories housing hundreds of anti nuclear demonstrators create ideal conditions for transmission of epidemics. He warned of strep throat hepatitis measles and German measles spreading among detainees.
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Concord
N.H
Inside Edit a debate on Vietnam and rights shaped by TRB
Article notes Carter’s clash with Europe over breeder reactor loses ground. Op Ed questions MAU seniors college choices and argues for free postage. County coverage reports Weston voters opposing appeal of the Environmental Commission’s Mt Holly farm decision. Entertainment brief covers David Randall paintings at Hoosac School.
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Vietnam
TRB
Carter
Europe
MAU
Weston
Environmental Commission
Mt. Holly Farm
David Randall
Hoosac
Carter arrives in Geneva for Middle East talks with Assad
President Carter arrives in Geneva for talks with Syria’s President Hafez Assad and aims to return from the conference later this year with a peaceful solution. He had invited Assad to Washington, but Assad declined and Geneva was chosen as a neutral site.
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UPI
Carter
Middle East
Hafez Assad
Syria
United States
Assad
Washington
Wells River Creamery saga ends with underworld tie in Vermont
Yellowed documents trace Wells River Creamery from 1891 to 1970s, showing 1950 assets of 43 497 and debts 32 884 rising to 60 568 liabilities by 1962. In 1963 Calabro Gambardella of New Haven rented space, bought the plant after Lewis Rowell died, and directing shifts followed through 1972 as Frank Gambino became the successor.
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Alburg
UPI
Vermont
Secretary of State
Wells River Creamery
Lewis, Dorothy
Natt Rowell
Times
Rowell
Rowells
Joseph Calabro
Stratford, Conn
Matthew Gambardella
New Haven
Gambardella-Calabro Cheese Corp
Gambardellas
Salvatore Calabro
Frank Angeloni
Stratford
Searsburg Gets Nine Inches of Snow In Morning
Banner report from Carla Walter describes Searsburg blanketed in nine inches of snow with 26 degree temperature and gusty winds. Hogback Mountain reports up to eight inches and possible six foot drifts. Wilmington downtown sees three inches as Berkshire and Windham County towns suffer downed wires, road hazards, and school closures.
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Searsburg
Banner
Carla Walter
Molly Stark
Ms. Walter
Hogback Mountain
Hogback
Wilmington
Berkshire County
Pittsfield
Berkshire
Windham County
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