Diplomat debt collection mission expands at U N
Alan Porter leads the New York City Commission for the United Nations legal section. Since 1974 diplomats have left over a million dollars in unpaid bills. Porters team has recovered about 675000 or 68 percent, but immunity limits enforcement and disputes linger.
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United Nations
UPI
Alan Porter
Porter
New York City
Con Ed
Ma Bell
Alan S. Porter
Parter
Commission For the United Nations
Commission
Railroads oppose waterway tax in waterways funding clash
Rail executives argue a waterway tax would erase the margin between barge and rail rates. They contend $500 million to $700 million in annual revenue would be lost if water traffic subsidies end. The fight centers on Lock and Dam No. 26 where 58 million tons moved in 1974, and railroads joined with environmentalists to block replacement plans since 1974.
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Monsanto
Fritz Dowling
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Corps of Engineers
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Non-victim crimes and limits of criminal law discussed
John Kaplan of Stanford University speaks on non-victim crimes and the role of criminal law. The Courses by Newspaper feature presents the author’s views, not official university or funding agency positions.
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John Kaplan
Stanford University
University of California
Libel suit partially dismissed in New Mexico case
A federal judge in Albuquerque dismissed the $7.75 million libel suit against United Press International and the Arizona Republic. The action by Joseph Montoya II remains against Denver Post Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque Tribune Las Vegas Optic and the Associated Press. The suit claimed a 1974 Colorado stock fraud link.
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Joseph M. Montoya II
U.S
New Mexico
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Wichita
Kan
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Denver Post
Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque Tribune
Las Vegas
N.M
Optic
Associated Press
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Republic
San Miguel County
U.S. District Court
Albuquerque
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Howard C. Bratton
Montoya
Colorado
Biography of Gertrude Ezorsky
Gertrude Ezorsky is a philosophy professor at City University of New York Brooklyn College and the Graduate School. She spent two years as a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School and has taught at Brandeis University Pittsburgh University and Boston University. Her publications include Fight Over University Women in the New York Review of Books and Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment.
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Gertrude Ezorsky
City University of New York
Brooklyn College
Graduate School
Harvard Law School
Brandeis
University of Pittsburgh
Boston University
New York Review of Books
Naumburg Foundation Announces First U S Flute Contest
The Walter W Naumburg Foundation will hold its first U S flute competition in May 1978. Eligible flutists must reside in the United States and be 17 to 30 years old as of March 1 1978. First prize includes 2500 dollars a fully subsidized recital and a commissioned work. On this date in 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem was chosen to lead South Vietnam in its first free election. He was later assassinated.
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New York
Walter W. Naumburg Foundation
United States
Ngo Dinh Diem
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