Senate Ethics Code Limits Outside Income
The Senate approved a new ethics code by 86 to 9, taking effect without House action. It aims to curb outside income, require financial disclosure, ban gifts over $100 from interested parties, end slush funds, tighten franking, and restrict lame duck travel. Critics call it weak, while supporters see it as a milestone prompting broader openness.
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House
Senate
Carter
Gerald R. Ford
Robert C. Byrd
Congress
Sen
Gaylord Nelson
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Goldwater
No Evidence Against Saccharin Says Cancer Society President
Sarasota AP report states American Cancer Society President Dr. R. Lee Clark says no human cancer evidence for saccharin, while promising further independent studies and possible congressional review. He urges reassessment of dosage relevance to humans and criticizes FDA drug safety demands impeding research. The piece notes a 1975 U.S. cancer death rate decline of seven-tenths of one percent.
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Cancer Society
Sarasota, Fla
American Cancer Society
R. Lee Clark
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Clark
The
National Cancer Institute
Contractor Fired At Bailey Project In Wyoming Mingo
The Huntington District Corps of Engineers terminated Western Contracting Corporation for default on the R. D. Bailey Lake dam and spillway project. The 310 foot high dam near Justice, at the Mingo Wyoming County line, remains under progress with another firm to be chosen.
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R. D. Bailey Lake
Wyoming
Mingo
Huntington Corps of Engineers
Western Contracting Corporation
Western
Corps
Samuel L. Britten
Britten
Guyandot Valley
Town of
Justice
Mingo-Wyoming County
Congress
Guyandot
Ohio
Dutch journalist links death middleman to Kennedy plot
A Dutch journalist testifies a man who died by his own hand this week acted as a middleman between Oswald and Texas oilmen in a conspiracy to murder Kennedy. Princeton ministers tour stores find racks clear of magazines defined as pornographic. A West African berry may replace sugar and saccharin as sweeteners. A congressman proposes forcing lawmakers to prepare their own 1040 taxes to prove forms too complex.
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Oswald
Texas
Kennedy
Princeton
Target
Washington
Unemployment Drops to 7.3 Percent in March
The jobless rate fell from 7.5 to 6.3 percent in February and 7.3 percent in March as 513000 more Americans gained work. Total employment rose to 89.5 million with about 57 percent of people employed. Economists expect further gains if the stimulus program proceeds, though opposition remains to a $50 tax rebate.
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Washington
Virginia Employment Commission
Labor Department
Courtenay Slater
Commerce Department
Congress
Carter
West Virginia Senate Passes Utility Bill Break for Customers
The West Virginia Senate approved a 9 million dollar break for electrical utility customers, adding a measure that lowers business taxes on electricity production by 2.7 percent while raising the B and O tax on West Virginia produced but out of state shipped power. The proposal also allows products to be sold without warranties with buyer acknowledgment. A separate House bill funds new athletic facilities at the universities by pooling tuition to back revenue bonds for capital improvements.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Senate
House
Shire
Oates
B&o
Judiciary
Mario Palumbo
D-Kanawha
Jock Ill
Del
Thais Blatnik
Ohio
West Virginia University
Marshall University
Finace Com
FBI seeks Roger Drollinger in Indiana family killings case
The FBI requests help locating Roger Clay Drollinger sought in execution style shotgun slayings of four young men in Indiana and the wounding of their mother. Drollinger, 2A, six feet tall and 195 pounds with brown hair and eyes, is considered armed and dangerous. David Wayne Smith was arrested in Lexington, Kentucky. Contact the Bluefield FBI office at 327-7613 with any information.
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FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Roger Clay Drollinger
Indiana
Drollinger
Drolinger
David Wayne Smith
Lexington
Bluefield
Brzezinski Seeks Soviet Concerns on Arms Proposals
Zbigniew Brzezinski said the Carter administration has made a determined effort to present reasonable arms proposals to the Soviet Union and hopes to learn what troubles Moscow. Defense Secretary Brown warned of potential increased need for future strategic weapons spending if talks fail to show good faith.
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Washington
Zbignew
Soviet Union
U.S
Brzezinski
Vance
White House
Brown
Pentagon
Carter
Cyrus Vance
Gromyko
Energy Chief Urges Coal Conversion Push in Congress
Washington AP reports Energy Administrator John F. O’Leary says three years of coal conversion efforts failed to switch any plant from oil or gas. He notes complex laws and limited authority hindered the program, with 22 plant orders stalled amid environmental and management disputes.
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Energy Chief
Washington
John F. O'Leary
United States
The
Senate
O'Leary
House Power and Energy Subcommittee
FEA
Unex
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D-Hamp
Jimmy Carter
Sequoia
Rex Granum
Granum
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Europe
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