Windfall tax sparks partisan clash in oil price debate
House Republicans attack the windfall profits tax on decontrolled oil prices saying it discourages oil search and raises U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Democrats defend it as needed to reclaim higher profits from rising world prices and fund energy needs.
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Births Highlight Mercy St Luke's June 27 List
Birth announcements from Mercy and St. Luke's detail multiple new arrivals on June 27 including daughters for Lee Schulte and Robert Brecke families and sons for Lelan Freie Warren Roth and Peter Oswald among others. Other notes reference Holdridge Nebraska and Cedar Rapids couples with listed addresses and grandparents information. Medical emergencies and fire calls follow in short daily chronology.
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Lelan Freie
Robins Road
Hiawatha
Danny Henderson
Eastern Drive
Warren Roth
Lowden
Wayne Marter
Vinton
James Moss
Summer Circle
Peter Oswald
Bertram Road
Michael Peachee
Palo
Budget-Revenue Sharing Cut Blocked by House
House rejects a bid to cut the 6.8 billion revenue sharing with states as part of approving 72.2 billion in funding for HUD VA and NASA for the new fiscal year beginning October 1.
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Congress
House
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Veterans Administration
National Aeronautics and
Supreme Court backs Fed on delay of data releases
The Supreme Court, in a 7 to 2 ruling, allows federal money managers to keep certain Fed Reserve Board open market committee recommendations secret under the Freedom of Information Act. The decision overturns lower court rulings in Washington.
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Supreme Court
Federal Reserve Board
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U.S. Court of Appeals
Soviet Union Accused of Violating Nuclear Test Accord
The Soviet Union reportedly violated a 5 year old US pact by detonating an underground nuclear test last week. The blast, reportedly over 150 kilotons, prompted formal questioning by U.S. officials after the Washington Post cited the event. The treaty sets a 150 kiloton limit though it never formally came into force.
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Soviet Union
United States
Washington Post
U.S
Record Jewish emigration from Soviet Union may reach 50 000
A White House semiannual report on the 1975 Helsinki agreement estimates Soviet Jewish emigration could total 45 000 to 50 000 this year. It notes emigration remains cumbersome and largely dependent on having close relatives abroad, making many applicants ineligible.
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Washington
Soviet Union
White House
Offshore leases approved despite bid blocking challenge
U.S. District Judge Aubrey Robinson allowed Friday bidding for oil and gas leases on 184 tracts off the California coast. Consumer groups Long Beach and the California State Lands Commission did not appeal, though they challenge the bidding system as a giveaway to large oil companies.
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California
U.S
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City of
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James Flag
Energy Action
Robinson
New York City Chosen To Host 1980 Democratic Convention
Washington AP reports New York City won the bid to host the 1980 Democratic National Convention with 23 votes on the first ballot by the site selection committee. Detroit and Philadelphia received three and two votes respectively.
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New York City
Jimmy Carter
New York
Detroit
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Tugboat strike ends in New York Harbor 88-day walkout concluded
After 88 days 2800 crewmen aboard 250 tugboats barges and tankers ended a strike with a ratification vote. Operators moved to resume gasoline shipments by water along the Atlantic coast and inland waters to the Great Lakes as fuel deliveries expected to rebound for New York metropolitan and New England motorists.
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Virginia
Great Lakes
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International Longshoremen’s Association
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Senate Ambushes SALT II Debate As Byrd Heads to Moscow
Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd travels to Moscow to press Soviet leaders on SALT II while Senate Republicans led by Howard Baker vow to oppose the treaty unless amendments are considered. Culver disputes Baker on SS-18 missiles and warns even with elimination U.S. ICBMs remain vulnerable. An unnamed defense analyst notes SALT II caps warheads per SS-18, unlike Vladivostok.
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Senate
Robert Byrd
Moscow
Howard Baker
White House
Soviet Union
Byrd
Baker
Andrei Gromyko
John Culver
Iowa
United States
Culver
U.S
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Vladivostok
Bernstein Death Ends Noted Columnist Career at 74
Theodore Bernstein, longtime New York Times editor and language authority, died of cancer at his Manhattan home at age 74. A Times editor since 1925, he shaped news writing and display and later wrote a thrice weekly language column for the Times Special Feature Syndicate.
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Theodore Bernstein
New York Times
Bernstein
Manhattan
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Times
Times Special Feature Syndicate
Gazette
Opening of CP Rail main line in 1887 sparks era growth
The main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway opened for public traffic in 1887 marking a milestone for Canadian expansion. In New Jersey about 75 percent of the state is covered by forests farms and small towns, reflecting a rural landscape.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
New Jersey
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