Leahy Accuses DOD and USDA of Underreporting Spending
Senator Patrick Leahy released a 261 page report after a six month probe accusing the Defense and Agriculture departments of underreporting advisory committee costs and discriminating in member selection. He cites over 1,200 federal advisory committees costing about 50 million annually and calls for greater oversight.
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Washington
UPI
Patrick Leahy
D-Vt
Departments of Defense and Agriculture
Defense and Agriculture
Leahy
Defense Department
DOD
USDA
Turkey quake relief effort in Van province escalates
U S Secretary of Commerce Elliot Richardson met Turkish Premier Suleyman Demirel in Ankara to discuss emergency actions after a powerful 7.6 earthquake in eastern Turkey. Officials warned of pneumonia measles and other respiratory threats to survivors while Red Cross reported 17 000 tents and 52 000 blankets delivered.
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Van
Turkey
UPI
U.S
Elliot Richardson
Suleyman Demirel
Richardson
Demirel
Ankara
World Health Organization
Ahmet Tosun
Red Cross
Arab peacekeeping push eyed in southern Lebanon
President Elias Sarkis met aides to discuss possible advance of Arab peacekeeping forces farther south a move Israel warns could provoke. Sources say mixed Syrian and UAE Saudi troops may move toward Tyre and Nabatiyeh within days, with talks ongoing at highest levels and reports of a widened operation.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Elias Sarkis
Israel
Sarkis
Litani
Mediterranean
United Arab Emirates
Saudi Arabia
Tyre
Nabatiyeh
Khalil Jalbout
Khiam
Jalbout
Ahmed al Hajj
Sidon
Marjayoun
Syria
U.S. and Soviet trade council opens in Moscow
U.S. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon leads a 35 member party to Moscow for the four day U S USSR Trade and Economic Council meeting. The council includes 230 U S firms and 113 Soviet firms and aims to expand trade. A tour of a Kama River truck factory is planned with over 200 appointments for business talks. Trade volume is forecast to hit 2.6 billion dollars by year end 1976.
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Moscow
UPI
Treasury
William E. Simon
U.S
Ussr Trade and Economic Council
Nikolai S. Patelichev
Simon
London
Trade Council
Simon and
Patolichev
Kama River
Council
United States
Soviet Union
Carter's daughter to attend integrated Washington public school
Amy Carter will be the first child of a President to attend a racially integrated public school in Washington. The nine year old is assigned to Thaddeus Stevens School near the White House, with Secret Service protection and a white teacher, Verona Meeder, guiding her through the midterm of the fourth grade.
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Amy Carter
Plains, Ga
Jimmy Carter
Rosalynn
Washington
Thaddeus Stevens School
White House
Thaddeus Stevens
Pennsylvania
Republican Party
South
Stevens
Carter
Amy
Plains
Secret Service
Verona Meeder
Theodore Roosevelt
Quentin
State aid to education shortfalls hit Bennington County towns
Vermont education officials cut the 1976 77 aid total by 270 000. Bennington Pownal and Woodford overestimated allocations and will face tight budgets. Rutland and Burlington also saw declines. An ETS report says the Miller formula fails to equalize town education spending.
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Rob Woolmington
Vermont
Bennington
George A. Sleeman
State Department
Department
Arthur McCann
Sleeman
Pownal
Woodford
Rutland
Burlington
Bennington County
Educational Testing Services
ETS
Princeton
N.J
Fair Tax and Equal Education Coalition
William Miller
Joint Legislative Subcommittee On
Arlington
Manchester
Dorset
North Bennington
Shaftsbury
Sandgate
Sunderland
Peru
Rupert
Searsburg
Readsboro
Israel calls on Lebanon to police border region
Israel urges Lebanon to quickly organize police in the southern border region under Lebanese command and the presidency. Officials say Lebanon should control activities south of the Litani River, while Israel warnings oppose Syrian or Palestinian forces crossing the red line.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
UPI
Yigal Allon
Lebanon
Litani River
Litani
Shimon Peres
Palestine Liberation Organization
Inside News Briefs Highlight Crimes and Local Notes
Nation reports a New Jersey cadet charged in the slaying of an entire family and a cigarette swap that spreads poison fumes. Local notes mention Merck Forest donating 50 trees for Christmas decor and other community items across pages 3 to 5.
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N. J. Cadet
Merck Forest
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Concetto Giuttusso
WHO
Ford
Lake van
van Province
Greece
Cyprus
Aegean Sea
U.s.-Ussr Trade Council
Miller Formula
Gerry Raftery
John Gould
Hoosick Falls
New Hampshire
Entertainment
Ralph Nader
MAU
MACC
Steelers
Houston
Yankees
Jackson
Ottawa
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