Narrow Escape for Move To Drop Electoral College
In Washington a tied 8 to 8 vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee stalled on abolishing the electoral college. Byrd’s tie breaking vote kept the measure alive briefly while filibuster threats and parliamentary maneuvers loom. Senator Scott pledges to block floor action despite Bayh’s push to calendar the measure.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Judiciary Committee
Byrd
Subcommittee
Sen
William Scott
R-Va
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Scott
Bayh
Senate
Oim
Judiciary Committee
Virginia
Vance urges program for basic human needs at OECD talks
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance urged industrialized nations to launch a program for basic human needs to combat global poverty. He spoke at the OECD meeting in Paris and pressed for a joint development effort including Communist blocs and Western allies. Vance called for a working group to design the program and to prepare proposals on resources, cost sharing, and effective use of funds. He also highlighted women’s education and employment, rural development, and food production, and urged Comecon to join Western nations.
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Paris
UPI
Cyrus Vance
Vance
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
Treasury
W. Michael Blumenthal
OECD
Oecd Executive Committee
Comecon
Soviet Union
Carter
United States
Leonid Brezhnev
France
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Cranston
James Allen
Alabama
Middle East
Allen
Quinlan’s Condition Stabilized After Relapse
Karen Ann Quinlan’s condition has stabilized following a relapse tied to an infection at Morris View nursing home. She has been in a coma since April 15, 1975, and recently weighs about 70 pounds while being sustained by IV feeding and antibiotics.
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Morris Plains
N.J
UPI
Karen Ann Quinlan
Morris View Nursing Home
Quinlan
Quinlans
New Jersey Supreme Court
OAS backs rights policy at seventh general assembly
The Organization of American States approved a U S human rights resolution amid 14 votes for and eight abstentions with three absent. The move strengthens support for Carter era human rights globally and increases funding to the Inter American Commission on Human Rights.
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George’s
Grenada
Organization of American States
U.S
Gale McGee
OAS
OAS General Assembly
Carter
United States
Inter-American Commission On Human Rights
Latin America
Argentina
Chile
Robert White
Peru
Mexico
Venezuela
Ecuador
Panama
Dominican Republic
Jamaica
Trinidad
Barbados
Granada
Surinam
Costa Rica
Haiti
Brazil
Uruguay
Paraguay
Colombia
Guatemala
el Salvador
Bolivia
Nicaragua
Honduras
OAS Permanent Council
Cuba
Fidel Castro
White
Havana
Cedar Rapids area bids invited for school and city projects
Bids due July 6 1977 for Cedar Rapids Community School District site work and five passenger shelters for the city. Separate notices cover Linn County demolition of the Old County Home public hearing and other public improvement bids with right to reject and waive formalities.
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Cedar Rapids Week
County of
Linn
State of Iowa
Second Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Board of Directors
Ight
Cedar
Otto F. Wiedersbern
Linn County
Board of Supervisors
Auditor
Old County
City
Suber
City Hall
Comptroller General
U.S. Department of Transportation
Lois M. Keller
PERGG
Fane Spa
Bassenger
Seger Rapids
Aertre
Superviso
Slyette Raleawa
Audi
Linn A Arthouse
Repigs Linn
Ola
Maria Wa
Penney
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Auditor's
de Rapids
Wilson Junior High
Street
S.W
Cedar Rapid
Second Avenue S.W
C.O.S.T
Ered Aoe
Boar
Seducari
Nilson
Bonn O
Lown
the Architects
Associated Architects & Engineers of
17Th Street
S.E
First Street
N.W
Ep Popics
W. Page Corporation
Ashorth Road
Waterloo Builders Plan Exchange
P.O
Water
Dodge Scan
Parklawn Avenue
Minrwinnesota
Witl
Otto F Wiedersberg
Cedar Povids Gazette
EPA plans noise labels on consumer products
The Environmental Protection Agency said it will require noise labels on various items though final list is undecided. Likely candidates include vacuum cleaners air conditioners shop tools dishwashers and powered lawn and garden equipment with labels on noise reduction products as well.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
Water Project Compromise Faces Carter Veto Risk
The Senate Appropriations Committee spared nine of 17 water projects Carter sought to cut, hoping to stave off a veto. House action suggested a veto override remains unlikely, but some senators worry half measures may fail to satisfy the president.
Engineer firm judged Clinch River site among worst for nuclear plant
The firm overseeing the Clinch river breeder reactor project said four years ago the site at Clinch river ranked among the worst for topography and rock conditions. A 1973 internal memo warned project results would be poor and cited an outside official who advised abandoning the reactor due to high risk and potential harm.
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Washington
Clinch River
New York Times
Agriculture panel approves SSI food stamp extension to Sept
The House Agriculture Committee approved a bill to maintain food stamp eligibility for elderly, blind and disabled SSI recipients through September 30. After that date, coverage would fall under a broader reform bill awaiting Congress action. The panel also advanced a separate measure to raise overall food stamp participation by about 1.5 million.
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Washington
UPI
House Agriculture Committee
Congress
Dayan Defends West Bank Stance and Joint Coexistence Plan
Israel will not withdraw from the occupied West Bank, Dayan told foreign ministry staff on his second day in office. He said Israel would work with Arab neighbors toward a joint way of life in the region, opposing a peace deal that requires withdrawal.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
UPI
Moshe Dayan
West Bank
Jordan
Dayan
Foreign Ministry
Middle East
Amin Declared Alive Resting By Uganda Radio
Uganda's President Idi Amin was officially declared alive but resting by Radio Uganda. A military spokesman said Amin had been resting after a long period of hard work. The report refuted Kenyan and British media claims of his disappearance or death.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Uganda
Idi Amin
Radio
Carter Cranston See Quick Compromise on HEW Labor Bill
President Carter met with Democratic senators including Alan Cranston at the White House as they flag a possible compromise on a 61 billion HEW labor bill. Cranston said a formal confrontation is unlikely and veto risk seems minimal amid ongoing spending talks with House and Senate leaders.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
White House
California
Alan Cranston
Congress
Cranston
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
San Francisco Bus Kidnap Suspects Open to Plea Bargain
UPI reports defense lawyer Edward Merrill would consider plea talks for Richard Schoenfeld, one of three men charged in the Chowchilla bus kidnapping. Arguments delay trial as California seeks rapid ruling on suppression motions. defendants from affluent San Francisco families face 27 kidnapping counts, 5 with bodily injury, and 18 robbery counts. Ed Ray the driver and 26 children aged five to fourteen were buried alive in a quarry van and survived after 16 hours.
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San Francisco
UPI
Chowchilla
Calif
Edward Merrill
Richard Schoenfeld
Merrill
California Attorney General’s Office
State Supreme Court
Ed Ray
Woods
Schoenfeld
James
Frederick Woods
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Nenwal Commission
Nsw
Exton
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Board of Supervisor
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Attes Merlebra Kopel
EPA
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