Senate backs end to gas price controls yet House balks
Washington report notes Senate vote 58 to 32 to remove federal price controls on natural gas with a 10 to 12 year phaseout and emergency provisions to avert a winter shortage. Administration supports the measure but House leaders expect no action this year. The split reflects fears of sharply higher prices without guaranteed supply increases.
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London Host's Car Bomb Kills Cancer Expert in London
Caroline Kennedy was shaken but uninjured when a bomb exploded outside Conservative politician Hugh Fraser's Kensington home. The blast killed Prof. Gordon Hamilton Fairley and injured seven others, including Fraser's cook. Police suspect IRA involvement in the attack amid reprisal rumors.
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James Graham
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Mary Queen of Scots
Antonia
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Harold Pinter
Vivien Merchant
Gas Shortage Hits Skelly Stations in Cedar Rapids Area
Several Skelly stations in the Cedar Rapids area are out of gasoline and plan to shut down until next month's allocation arrives. Skelly officials in Des Moines say the shortage is nationwide in the Midwest, tied to limited allocations and past fuel crises. Some stations hope to reopen next week as allocations resume.
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Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
A Good Listener Reflects On Hidden Thoughts
A compact observation notes that a good listener often appears to drift mentally to other concerns, suggesting hidden preoccupations can coexist with attentive listening. The remark underscores the paradox of focus amid internal distraction.
Female Kidnapper Blocks Offer To Free Dutch Exec
In Monasterevin Ireland Eddie Gallagher and Marian Coyle held Dutch businessman Tiede Herrema. Gallagher offered to release the hostage for the safety of his female accomplice but Coyle refused to let them go as police waited the siege out.
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Lawrence Wren
Dublin
Wren
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Palestinians in Beirut hunt Americans as sectarian fighting rises
Palestinian guerrillas join the search for two U S embassy workers held in Beirut amid intensified Muslim Christian clashes. Government says Beirut streets are unsafe as Premier Karami struggles to quell seven months of communal warfare. Abuliyad leads a midnight Al Fatah meeting to discuss the kidnapping and possible ransom. The captives are Charles Gallagher and William Dyles Jr both linked to the U S Information Service printing plant. U S officials expect a ransom or aid distribution in poor areas.
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Abu Liyad
U.S
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Roanoke
William Dyles, Jr
San Jose
Calif
Gallagher
U.S. Information Service
Turkey
Ernest Morgan
Ford Davis Tape Deposition Battle Over Fromme Case
Justice department seeks reconsideration of Judge MacBride order forcing President Ford to provide a video deposition as a defense witness for Lynette Fromme who allegedly aimed a loaded pistol at Ford in Sacramento on Sept. 5. Fromme's trial set for Nov. 4.
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Ford
Lynette Fromme
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U.S
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MacBride
U.S. Atty
Dwayne Keyes
Donald Heller
Washington
Philip Buden
John Virgo
Virgo
Heller
California
Virga
Nobel Prize Goes to Italian Poet Montale in 1975
Stockholm AP Montale, 79, famed for hermetic modern Italian poetry shaped by Dante, wins the 1975 Nobel Prize for literature. He is cited for a distinctive verse that captures human values with hopeful realism. Prize includes 143000 dollars with medal and diploma to be presented Dec 10 by King Carl XVI Gustaf.
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Sweden
Eugenio Montale
Saul Bellow
Vladimir Nabokov
Norman Mailer
Montale
Carl XVI Gustaf
Jury To See Porsche 914 Involved In $1 Million Auto Suit
Linn district court jury will observe a Porsche 914 involved in an April 4, 1970 crash. The car’s steering bolts, loosened to finger tight, were to be tested by Volkswagen safety engineer Wolfhard Albers to confirm whether looser bolts could not affect steering. August J. Holmquist seeks damages after losing a leg when the car overturned on Ellis Road NW. A film of Mark Donohue’s 1973 test drive was shown earlier this week.
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Volkswagen Co
Germany
August J. Holmquist
Cedar Rapids
Ellis Road
Indi
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New Jersey
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Porsche Audi
Hawkeye Downs
Mark Donahue
Holmquist
Panel Rejects Ford Tax Plan in House Action
In Washington the House Ways and Means Committee rejected President Ford's plan to tie spending ceilings to tax cuts. Democrats outvoted Republicans and most Democrats backed delaying action to align with a 1977 ceiling. The panel moved to consider Al Altman's $12.7 billion package to extend 1975 tax cuts through 1976, risking a presidential veto.
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al Altman
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Ford
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