House Democrats Defy Carter On Oil Price Controls
The House Democratic Caucus approved a non binding resolution opposing President Carter s plan to lift price controls on domestically produced oil. A 124 96 vote rejected a compromise urging controls until a windfall profits tax passes. Carter s June 1 start to lifting controls aims to align with world prices.
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House Democratic Caucus
White House
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U.S
Carter forms fuel task force to tackle diesel shortage
President Carter names a special task force from Agriculture Energy and Transportation to locate diesel shortages and direct supplies. Sen Culver said Midwest crude is adequate but spot shortages must be identified and addressed as lawmakers meet in Cabinet Room with Schleicher Williams and aides.
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Iowa
Jimmy Carter
John C. Culver
Carter
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Energy
James Schlesinger
Agriculture
James Williams
White House
J. James Exon
Dneb
Nancy Kassebaum
Kansas
Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Transportation
Nebraska
Strike on Rock Island could stall directed service
A planned strike against the Rock Island Railroad threatens to derail plans for directed service over Milwaukee Road routes. Meanwhile in Cedar Rapids a church bus tour drew over 400 people to inspect southeast areas. The Iowa Secretary of Agriculture addressed diesel fuel contamination, and twenty troopers plus two sergeants are part of a federally funded saturation patrol across four Iowa zones.
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Rock Island Railroad
Milwaukee Road Lines
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Confidence games and fraud drain elderly Americans
The excerpt notes millions of dollars lost yearly to scams targeting seniors and mentions business frauds. It references page citations 10B 4B 9A and a discussion by Horace Webb of Iowa Electric about reactions to the Three Mile Island incident. It also hints at a forthcoming change in Iowa football coaching staff and an invention of a costly reducing machine.
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Iowa Electric
Three Mile Island
Lance indicted on 22 banking charges in UPI report
Federal grand jury in Atlanta indicted Bert Lance 47, former budget director, on 22 counts of conspiring to commit banking violations and defrauding the government. Co defendants include Tom Mitchell Richard Carr and H Jackson Mullins in a case tied to $20 million in loans to the defendants.
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UPI
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Justice Department
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Calhoun
Rome
Florida executions delayed by courts
John Spenkelink's life was spared hours before a scheduled electric chair death as federal judges in Atlanta and Washington granted stays of execution. His companion Willie Darden also received a stay, delaying what would have been the first U.S. executions since 1967.
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Spenkelink
Willie Jasper Darden
United States
Utah
Gary Mark Gilmore
Gilmore
Darden
Atlanta
Ellbert Tuttle
5Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Trudeau toppled in Canadian vote reshapes nation politics
Final returns show Joe Clark’s Progressive Conservatives winning 136 seats, short of a majority, enabling a minority government while Pierre Trudeau’s Liberals drop to 114 seats. Trudeau becomes opposition leader as Clark leads a new, divided Canada with coalition prospects uncertain.
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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