Voting rights for DC push advances in Congress
Supporters of congressional voting representation for Washington’s 700,000 residents celebrate Senate approval 67 to 32 and press toward ratification by three-fourths of states. President Carter mobilizes executive resources. Iowa’s Clark and Culver voted yes. Opponents fear urban gains at rural expense. ratification remains a seven year target.
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John Culver
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Walter Mondale
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Edward Kennedy
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Suspect in Hillside Strangler Case Questioned in Colorado
District Attorney Robert Miller says Allen Edward Peterson, 34, held on a rape charge in Greeley, is being treated as a possible Hillside Strangler suspect. Los Angeles detectives questioned him and obtained blood, hair, saliva and palm print samples after finding women’s clothing and jewelry in his possession.
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UPI
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Government seeks simple test to enforce job bias laws
Four federal agencies publish guidelines on employment bias cases focusing on whether minorities are being hired. EEOC head Eleanor Holmes Norton says the approach stresses performance and inclusion while prioritizing cases with adverse effects over broad investigations.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Bomb blast near Gaza laborers kills one in Tel Aviv
A bomb exploded today near Arab laborers from Gaza as they prepared to commute to jobs in Israel, killing one and wounding another. It marks the first suspected terrorist bombing in Israeli-occupied Gaza in over a year amid guerrilla hostility linked to Camp David summit tensions.
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Gaza Strip
Gaza
Women to Join Veterans of Foreign Wars for First Time
Delegates at the national Veterans of Foreign Wars convention voted overwhelmingly to admit women to the VFW and its Auxiliary. Grace Minnix, national auxiliary president, called the move a timely adaptation for women veterans who earned their right through overseas service. The decision followed a two hour debate.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Times
Grace Minnix
VFW Auxiliary
Pressmen strike spreads to New York newsroom
The Newspaper Guild walkout, begun Aug 9 at the Post, expands to the newsroom. Guild officials cite management retrogressions including a one year wage freeze, attack on job security and denial of arbitration rights affecting editorial and commercial staff across the Post Times and Daily News.
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New York Post
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New York Times
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Conclave Aims to Elect Paul VI Successor by Monday
Vatican officials expect a peaceable cardinal conclave to elect a successor to Pope Paul VI by Monday after four daily votes. Msgr. George Leonard predicts the process should be over by lunchtime Monday as cardinals are sealed in the Apostolic Palace after a Friday prayer service.
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Basil Hume
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U.S. Delegation Split on Vietnam War MIAs
Rep G V Montgomery leads an eight member delegation to Vietnam and asserts none of the missing in action are alive while Rep Sam Hall and Rep Henson Moore offer cautious hope. About 2,500 American servicemen remain unaccounted for in Vietnam.
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D-Texas
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Shroud of Turin to Go on Public Display for 43 Days
The Holy Shroud in Turin will be shown in Turin Cathedral next Sunday for 43 days honoring the 400th anniversary of its transfer to Turin. The linen relic is revered as Christ’s burial cloth and is displayed publicly for the first time in 45 years.
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Italy
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The Cedar Rapids Gazette Address and Subscription Notes
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established 1883 lists address at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406. It outlines subscription rates by carrier and mail and notes Associated Press rights for local news and dispatches.
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Gazette Company
Third Ave SE
Cedar Rapids
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U.S. Territories
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Associated Press
Brother of James Earl Ray disputes murder claim
John Larry Ray, a 45 year old prison escapee, told the AP from a St. Louis halfway house that James Earl Ray did not kill Martin Luther King Jr. He said Ray never shot anyone and threw away guns during two holdups. Ray had admitted the 1968 shooting under pressure at a congressional hearing.
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Martin Luther King
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