Angry Brown Plans Suit Over Election Irregularities
Daily Telegraph reports Bluefield resident Homer L. Brown defeated in the city primary says he will file charges with the Secretary of State and the state Attorney General to seek to void the primary results. He accuses irregularities but won’t disclose specifics.
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Angry Brown
Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
Homer L. Brown
Brown
Stadium Drive
Johnson
A. J. Manchin
Upstate
Brezhnev Takes Presid ency to Tie Power as Leader
Soviet parliament ousts Nikolai Podgorny and installs Leonid Brezhnev as president joining the party chief role. Brezhnev, 70, will receive ceremonial honors while maintaining collective leadership with Kosygin and others. U S officials say relations with the United States should continue on a steady course.
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Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Kremlin
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Brezhnev
Podgorny
Alexei N. Kosygin
Troika
Khrushchev
St. Georges
Grenada
Organization of American States
U.S
Cyrus R. Vance
Soviet Union
United States
Stalin
Senate backs Byrd amendment on Korea pullout timing
The Senate rejected endorsing a complete four to five year withdrawal from South Korea. A Byrd amendment to a State Department bill passed 79 to 15, diluting the plan and calling for withdrawal decisions to be by joint action of the President and Congress. The chamber tabled a Dole amendment 68 to 26, avoiding a full policy repudiation. Byrd urged gradual phased troop reductions.
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Senate
Carter
U.S
South Korea
Robert C. Byrd
Byrd
Congress
United States
Korean Peninsula
Howard H. Baker
Robert Dole
R-Kan
White House
Jody Powell
Powell
Korea
Antiabortion Forces Make Inroads With State Lawmakers
The Right to Life drive to ban abortions gains momentum as seven states pass resolutions urging a constitutional amendment. States like North Dakota show progress while others face debate. The movement, sparked by the 1973 ruling, seeks to override rights with a broad convention path.
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Associated Press
Right To Life
Chicago
William C. Brennan
School of Social Services
St. Louis University
America
Roy Rogers
Dale Evans
Supreme Court
U.S
North Dakota
Rhode Island
Stephen J. Fortunato Jr
Virginia Politicians Eye 1978 U S Senate Race
Virginia politicians already begin jockeying to succeed retiring GOP Senator William L. Scott as the state looks past the November 8 general election. The upcoming race pits Republicans against Democrats in a contest shaping up after an extended Democratic primary.
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Richmond
Virginia
U. S. Senate
John Dalton
Henry Howell
William L. Scott
Scars Diminish as Flood Cleanup Presses On
Municipalities report progress after April floods with Grundy nearly finishing debris removal and riverbank work. Keystone secures a grant to repair the main water line while Welch prepares to reopen a damaged parking lot. Officials say reconstruction remains slower than cleanup, but towns are stabilizing with grants and repairs ongoing.
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Grundy
Barbara Berry
Keystone
Mosel Perdue
Welch
Car Plunges From Bridge Killing Driver Near Princeton
James H. Moye 56 died when his car left Brick Yard Road Bridge and fell 75 feet onto railroad tracks near Lilly Grove. Harley G. Duncan 73 was hospitalized in stable condition at Princeton Community Hospital after the noon crash.
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Princeton Community Hospital
Brick Yard
Lilly Grove
Mercer County Sheriff's Department
James H. Moye
Harley G. Duncan
Cornbread Ridge
OH-9
Princeton Rescue
East River Fire Department
West Virginia mayors gauge Rockefeller’s early tenure
Mayors from Keystone, Matoaka, Oakvale, Peterstown and Welch offer mixed views on Governor John D. Rockefeller IV. They praise cooperation and emergency grants for weather damage but criticize CETA restrictions and reduced Summer Youth Corps funding. Several say it is too early to judge.
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West Virginia
John D
Jay) Rockefeller IV
Federal Comprehensive Employment Training Administration
CETA
Rockefeller
Perdue
Matoaka
Charles Blankenship
Blankenship
O. Bee Boothe
Oakvale
Boothe
Arch) Moore
Peterstown
Osby Harvey
Welch
W. B. Swope
W. W
Barron
Swope
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