Debates Show Campaign Themes Repeat On Stage
The Philadelphia debate featured Ford and Carter sticking to familiar campaign themes and avoiding new proposals. Technical glitches delayed audio for 27 minutes, highlighting a season with six weeks left and voter apathy concerns. Both candidates claimed progress, pledged budget balance, and offered statistics while signaling no decisive shift in momentum.
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Philadelphia
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Carter
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Kennedy
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Peter Hart
Debates Split Voters Across Nation At Ford Carter Clash
Voters watched the first nationally televised debate between President Ford and Democrat challenger Jimmy Carter. Reactions, split along party lines, varied from optimism about aggressive questioning to criticisms of doubletalk and evasive stances. Local observers in Chicago and beyond voiced support for their preferred candidate while some attended to other distractions and weathered sound issues.
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Chicago
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Ford
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Mel Levine
Panel gives Ford edge in debate coach verdict
Four of five national debate coaches favored Ford in the televised presidential debate, citing stronger rebuttal of Carter's arguments. The panel scored the event on analysis, reasoning, evidence, and presentation with Ford ahead 22-19, 24-23, 27-24, and 15-13 in four ballots.
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Associated Press
Washington
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Barbara O’ Conus
California State University At
Sacramento
Donn Parson
University of Kansas
William Southworth
University of Redlands
Calif
James K. Unger
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C
Hearst Faces Sentence After Armed Bank Robbery Conviction
Patricia Hearst awaits sentencing by Judge William H. Orrick Jr with possible penalties from probation to 35 years after a San Francisco jury convicted her of the 1974 Hibernia Bank holdup. Meanwhile William and Emily Harris plead innocent to state abduction charges in Berkeley.
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Associated Press
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U.S. District Court
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San Francisco Bay
Berkeley
U.S
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Bailey
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Orrick
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San Diego
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FBI
Inouye Says He Can Fire Aide Who Lied
Senator Inouye of Hawaii says he has authority to fire his administrative assistant who admitted perjury before a federal grand jury. He denied ethics committee pressure to dismiss Henry Giugni and noted Giugni testified about a $5000 Gulf Oil campaign contribution in 1973.
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Ee K. Inouye
Inouye
Hawaii
Senate Ethics Committee
Henry Giugni
Giugni
Gulf Oil Corp
Claude C. Wild Jr
Iugni
Cee
Ethics Committee
Senate
Murder suspect bound over in New Year’s Eve killings
Ter rence D Milan II, 29, of Jaf frey New Hampshire, was bound over to a grand jury on three counts of murder in the New Year’s Eve shooting deaths of a Tewksbury doctor, his wife and son. The ruling followed a probable cause hearing in Lowell District Court after testimony from the alleged driver Donald Wilson. Two Keene men, Robert Wilson and Robert E Smith, seek to return to Massachusetts to face charges.
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Lowell, Mass
Terrence D. Milan II
Jaffrey, N.H
Donald Wilson
Keene
N.H
Tewksbury
Robert Wilson
Robert E. Smith
Keene, N.H
Massachusetts
York Institute Museum Announces Fall Hours in Saco
The York Institute Museum at 373 Main St Saco announces new fall hours starting Oct 1. Open Tuesdays and Thursdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by appointment. Featured exhibits include York County artifacts and the Pepperell collection.
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York Institute Museum
Main St
Saco
York County
Pepperell
Jumping stock market tests 1,014 points as nerves rumble
The Dow Jones climbed 20.28 points amid volatility marking a 13th surge past 1,000 since March. Traders cited a 1,014.79 high, tempered by durable goods orders down 2.2 percent in August with July revised to 2.4 percent decline, signaling cautious economy despite profits and dividends from IBM and General Motors.
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New York
Wall Street
Commerce Department
General Motors
IBM
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