Carter, Carter name leaders to discuss tax cut plan
President elect Jimmy Carter summoned congressional leaders from both parties to Plains Georgia for talks on a tax cut program estimated at 12 to 16 billion dollars aimed mainly at lower income groups. Officials said options include permanent and temporary cuts with possible rebates and business incentives as the deficit could rise to 75 billion. Carter also announced eight State Department nominations including Lucy Benson as undersecretary for security assistance and said White House staff would be named next week.
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League of Women Voters
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White House
Death by own action urged as death row alternative
William D. Leeke president of the American Correctional Association urged that inmates might be allowed to die by their own hand after all appeals are exhausted if the death penalty is reinstated He cited Gary Gilmore and suggested other execution methods such as electrocution hanging firing squads and gas be considered by authorities Leeke spoke for himself not the association and discussed a policy shift in capital punishment debates in Columbia South Carolina.
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Gilmore
South Carolina Department of
Stranger in street life ends in tragedy for Helen Hansen
In San Francisco police say 87 year old Helen Hansen was found beaten and shot with her own cane near a street she walked daily. Neighbors and hotel staff recall her fearless routine and warn of danger while she believed herself safe among familiar faces.
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Paul Johnston
Hotel Chronicle
Helen
Experts wrangle over Dallas bullet from Kennedy case
In Dallas a buried bullet found by Richard H. Lester is being contested by the FBI and the House Committee on Assassinations. The FBI seeks to compare the fragment with Oswald rifle test shots, while archives officials refuse to release the exhibits to the FBI, awaiting committee control.
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Dallas
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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James O'Neill
House Committee
Skeletons provide hard evidence of 6000-year-old culture
UCONN anthropologists Laughlin and Harper report that skeletons found on Shaman's Cape Olkhon Island Lake Baikal during a 1975 Soviet American expedition offer first hard evidence of Mongoloid presence in the Baikal region 6000 and 2000 BC. Artifacts include harpoon heads knives fishhooks and ornaments. The remains suggest connections with Alaska Eskimos and point to shared ancestry from Siberian coastal peoples.
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