Windfall oil tax moves toward final action in Congress
Congressional conferees near agreement on a windfall tax plan for oil firms and energy aid for low income families. Proposals include a $40 annual tax credit and a $200 heating oil tied credit with income thresholds, plus revenue use for tax cuts and energy development.
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House
Senate
Carter
House Conference Committee
Charles Rangel
D-N.y
U.S
Carter Administration
Alaska
Aleutian Range
Misfits sterilized under Virginia program says Times-Dispatch
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that thousands were sterilized at state hospitals over 50 years to remove misfits. At Lynchburg Training School alone more than 4,000 were operated on. many were told procedures addressed medical problems. The law remains on the books despite ending in 1972.
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Lynchburg Training School
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Lynchburg Institution
Times-Dispatch
U.S. Supreme Court
Israel Denies Testing Nuclear Bomb with South Africa
Defense Minister Ezer Weizman dismissed CBS News reports that Israel detonated a nuclear device last September off South Africa. He said there is no truth to the claim and reaffirmed Israel’s denial of possessing or testing a weapon.
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Israel
Ezer Weizman
South Africa
Weizman
Israel Radio
CBS News
Atlantic
OPEC approves price plan for quarterly oil hikes
The OPEC six member long term strategy committee backs a plan to raise prices quarterly, linked to currency, inflation and growth. Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali al Sabah says it will be presented at an extraordinary meeting of all 13 oil ministers before June, with the next regular meeting set for June 9 in Algiers. This aims to restore a single pricing system after last year’s market free for all.
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London
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
West
Ali Khalifa Al-Sabah
OPEC
Algiers
Algeria
Byrne denies Abscam targeting in New Jersey
Gov. Brendan T. Byrne rejected NBC reports that the FBI planned to make him a target in the Abscam bribery inquiry. Attorney General Degnan and Byrne stated he was not an Abscam target. Five other New Jersey officials had FBI notifications of investigations.
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N.J
Brendan T. Byrne
FBI
Abscam
New York
Washington
Byrne
John J. Degnan
New Jersey
Violence abroad forces tighter security at embassies
An upsurge in political violence in Central America and Mexico has led to embassy closures and heightened protection for diplomats. Ambassadors travel in armored vehicles. embassies use bulletproof screens, strict visitor sign in, and armed guards amid threats and hostage situations.
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el Salvador
Mexico
Foreign Service
Nicaragua
Honduras
Costa Rica
Panama
Rafael Angel Calderon
U.S
Latin America
Man falls for ghost in Toledo scam tale
A Toledo man funded a years long scheme by a woman claiming to be Kyle Stratton, a supposed kidney patient. He never met her. Stratton did not exist. Carolyn Matuszak faces grand theft by deception charges as police uncover the hoax.
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Toledo, Ohio
Kyle Stratton
Toledo
Carolyn Matuszak
California
Tombstone Jest Leads to $2000 Damages Suit
Gloria Kovatch sued her brother Bernard Gladsky after a memorial stone claimed she abused and starved their father. A Superior Court jury awarded $2000 in damages. the stone was placed before a church bull roast in 1977 and later removed.
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Gloria Kovatch
Stanley J. Gladsky
Bernard C. Gladsky
Gladsky
St. John’s Cemetery
Rock Hall
Kirby L. Smith
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