Energy Mobilization Board Boosted in Senate Vote
The Senate approved 68 to 25 to create an Energy Mobilization Board to fast track energy projects and push through stalled approvals. Carter called it a major step toward energy security while opponents and environmentalists raise concerns about federal overreach and local control. A companion $88 billion synthetic fuels plan faces scaling back amid congressional resistance as House debates future authorization.
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Carter
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U.S
America
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Senate Energy Committee
House
Highway Takeoff Shows Swiss Air Force Jets Practicing In War
A Hawker Hunter jet from the Swiss air force rolls off a highway near Zurich under a bridge during takeoff. The maneuver trains pilots to use highways if a nearby air base is destroyed in an attack.
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PCB tests show no high levels in Franklin residents
Idaho officials report preliminary blood tests from 105 Franklin residents found no elevated PCB levels after Ritewood Egg Co. destroyed over 300,000 hens and 1 million eggs due to contamination traced to a Billings plant. Further results will be released next week.
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Edward Gallagher
Franklin
Ritewood Egg Co
Billings
Mont
Montana
Iowa
NOW convention opens in Los Angeles for NOW agenda
The National Organization for Women opens its 12th annual convention in Los Angeles with about 3000 attending to set a political agenda for 1980 centered on passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Ellie Smeal says ERA supporters should be prepared to run for office.
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National Organization For Women
Ellie Smeal
ERA
Carter to Visit Albuquerque and San Diego in West Tour
President Carter will fly to Albuquerque New Mexico and San Diego California next week to meet Western governors and address a labor convention. The White House said he will meet the governors in Albuquerque next Wednesday.
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Carter
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San Diego
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Egyptian official warns oil weapon if Jerusalem talks fail
Deputy PM Hassan Tohamy, close adviser to President Sadat, says Arabs may use oil as leverage to recover Jerusalem if negotiations fail. He insists peace hinges on Israel restoring Arab Jerusalem as sacred to Muslims worldwide.
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Egypt
Hassan Tohamy
Jerusalem
Tohamy
Anwar Sadat
U.S
Middle East
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Maids 60-Cent Daily Worker Delivers Quintuplets in Colombia
In Bogota a 35-year-old mother of eight, earning 60 cents daily as a maid, has given birth to healthy quintuplets all girls. The quints were born Thursday and are reported in good condition by doctors.
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Bogota
Colombia
Western relief groups plan bigger aid to Cambodia
Two agencies the International Red Cross and UNICEF said they would intensify food and medicine deliveries to Cambodia after Heng Samrin's government agreed last week to cooperate. Phnom Penh rejected claims it would aid Pol Pot forces, SPK reported.
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Heng Samrin
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Unicef
SPK
Lost Watch Ad Instructs to Dial 398 8234
A basic lost notice requests readers to call 398 8234 to report or recover a missing watch. The item is described as a personal timepiece sought by the owner through a simple telephone contact.
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Dial
Birthdays today for Bi dault Logan Morgan
Former French Premier Georges Bidault is 80. Theatrical producer Joshua Logan is 71. Senator Robert Morgan of North Carolina is 54.
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Georges Bidault
Joshua Logan
Robert Morgan
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PLO cease-fire cited as moral initiative by Jackson
In Beirut, Rev. Jesse Jackson says the PLO has seized the moral initiative by announcing a unilateral cease-fire in southern Lebanon. He notes uncertainty over impact on cross border raids and bombings. Jackson’s delegation flies to Amsterdam then New York after meeting Yasser Arafat.
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Lebanon
Jesse Jackson
United States
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PLO
Israel
Jackson
Amsterdam
New York
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Yasser Arafat
Labady
U.N
Congress
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