Carter Seeks Universal Registration To Boost Voting
President Carter will ask Congress to approve universal registration for federal elections eliminating most registration barriers. The plan would allow any eligible citizen with ID to vote on Election Day, aiming to add over 45 million participants. It faces strong GOP opposition amid fraud concerns.
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Snow Hampers Search for Plane
A single engine Cessna 210 carrying a pilot and two to four passengers was reported missing about 10 miles southeast of Vinton after 5 p.m. Saturday. The flight had departed Ames for Iowa City and was en route to Waterloo when Cedar Rapids controllers lost radar and radio contact. Officials withheld names while confirming the Ames aircraft originated there. Next of kin were notified that the plane is presumed down. Search crews from Benton and Linn counties along with Iowa highway patrol, Civil Defense, and Civil Air Patrol continued night-long efforts near Atkins, with authorities scheduled to meet amid hopes of locating the missing plane.
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Pilots Return Home as Commission Seeks Laos Prisoners
Caskets bearing the remains of 12 Vietnam era pilots were loaded at Hanoi Gia Lam airport. A U.S. presidential commission met Lao officials later Saturday to seek information on about 300 American pilots missing in Laos.
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Psychoanalyst cites deterrence role of capital punishment
A noted psychoanalyst and professor argues crime rises as potential offenders expect to escape punishment and says capital punishment would deter murderers. The piece appears in the Courses by Newspaper series on Moral Choices in Contemporary Society.
Student loan program faces funding clash in Congress
Congress moves to shape Carter plan to end federal funds for the National Direct Student Loan Program. The House approved 300 million dollars to serve about 835 thousand students, while Senate panels consider 321 million to add 33 thousand borrowers. Loans go to needy students at 3 percent with no payments until after graduation.
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Webb empire tied to organized crime figures in Arizona report
The IRE investigation links Del E Webb Corp to racketeers Meyer Lansky Bugsy Siegel and Gus Greenbaum in Las Vegas ownerships and connects Webb to inflated land deals in 1959 and casino fronts via L. C. Jacobson. It notes financing networks with a Texas insurer and ties to mob figures, while Arizona newspapers dispute printing parts of the series amid political backlash.
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Bugsy) Siegel
Gus Greenbaum
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Teamsters
Moe Dalitz
Allard Roen
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Jacobson
Arizona Republic
Don Bolles
Congo Leader Ngouabi Assassinated in Brazzaville Coup Attempt
Unrest spreads across Africa as Marien Ngouabi of the People's Republic of the Congo is killed in his Brazzaville residence during an attempted coup. A military government forms as Mobutu and Castro actions ripple through Zaire and Tanzania, signaling possible Kremlin influence and future Soviet involvement.
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