Tax reform bill sent to Ford for approval
Congress produced a complex tax reform bill with many breaks that Ford may find hard to veto. It tightens some loopholes while expanding child care and retirement credits, raising net revenue in year one but easing over subsequent years. House passage was 383 to 26 with Senate approval 84 to 2, amid widespread lobbying and revenue shifts.
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Ford
Washington
UPI
Congress
White House
House
Senate
Kissinger warns of danger of all-out racial war in Africa
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger arrived in Pretoria to press talks with Prime Minister John Vorster aimed at preventing all-out racial war in southern Africa. His plane landed at 3:50 p.m. after a stop in Lusaka, Zambia, where he met Zambian President ...
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South Africa
UPS
Henry A. Kissinger
John Vorster
Southern Africa
Kissinger
Lusaka
Zambia
Kenneth Kaunda
Kaunda
Africa
Henry Kissinger
Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Joshua Nkomo
U.S
Smith
Vorster
Episcopal Church opens priesthood to women in historic vote
In Minneapolis the Episcopal Church narrowly approved changing canon law to admit women to the priesthood and episcopate, a move prompting debate over irregularly ordained women and potential regularization by bishops. The vote followed a parallel House of Bishops action, signaling a new era for a 3 million member denomination while drawing reactions from Catholic and Orthodox observers.
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Minneapolis
UPI
Episcopal Church
House of Bishops
Jeannette Piccard
Philadelphia
House of Deputies
Episcopalians
Christ
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Charged With Shipping Violations
Burlington UPI report says Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp faces state charges for violating shipping rules on radioactive material to and from its Vernon plant. The Health Board received the charge from two sources and Occupational Health Director John.
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Burlington
UPI
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Vernon
State Health Board
John
Froines
Vermont Public Interest Research Group
VPIRG
Vermont Yankee
Vermont
Herman Bluestein
Bluestein
Health Department
Occupational Health Division
VOSHA
John Fraines
Yankee
Burgess outlines universal health plan with taxes on unearned income
Democratic candidate John Burgess in Montpelier urged a universal, comprehensive health program modeled after the Democratic National Platform. He proposed financing through taxes on unearned income and Social Security style taxes, aiming 100 percent coverage for the elderly and needy, nearly full coverage for others, funded by earned and unearned incomes.
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Montpelier
Burgess
Hackel Attacks Snelling On Land Use Flip Flop
In Montpelier UPI Democrat Stella Hackel accused Republican Richard Snelling of flip flopping on a land use plan bill within three months. She cited a June 9 1976 Barre Montpelier Times Argus article noting Snelling’s removal of a state imposed land use map from Act 250 after voting for it March 10.
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Snelling
Shelburne
Charles Butler
Lee Hackel
Kissinger aides find Americans skeptical of U S foreign policy
Deputy Under Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger and assistants Winston Lord Samuel Lewis and George West report that Americans see Kissinger diplomacy as lacking idealism and moral content. Town meetings in Pittsburgh Portland San Francisco Milwaukee plus surveys of 300 citizens per site show distrust of policy effectiveness and concern for human rights and developing nations.
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U.S
Washington
Henry A. Kissinger
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Moscow
Pittsburgh
Milwaukee
Portland
Ore
San Francisco
Minneapolis
Public Affairs Bureau
State Department
Lawrence S. Eagleburger
Winston Lord
Samuel W. Lewis
George S. West
Soviet Union
Inside Local Briefs and Editorial Bits On MAU
On the Inside Local Margaret Allen notes Bennington's library is free and an editorial calls for ending petty madness at MAU. An Op Ed ponders Daniel Schorr's missteps. County coverage includes a Hudson River Basin study extending to Battenkill and Walloomsac. Sports report: Patriot soccer edges Woodstock 1 0.
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Bennington
MAU
County
Hudson River
Battenkill and
Walloomsac
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