House votes to fund two more B-1 bombers amid push to end program
In Washington, the House approved $462 million to produce the fifth and sixth B-1 test planes despite President Carter's plan to kill the program. Four test aircraft already exist. The Senate previously moved to cancel funds, with no immediate second vote scheduled.
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U N May Censure Amin By Scandinavian Resolution
The United Nations faces likely rejection of a Scandinavian plan to censure Idi Amin for human rights abuses in Uganda. Debate to begin later this week as a Third World Communist majority blocks the resolution, despite reports of torture and mass killings since 1971. Nine months earlier the alliance blocked a British request for a Human Rights Commission probe.
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Saturday mail cuts looming amid rising postal losses
The Postal Service faces a $652 million deficit for the year ended Sept. 30 and projects growing losses, prompting talks of ending Saturday deliveries and closing small post offices. Injury-claims costs surge, lifting the next-year bill to $1.2 billion, while a hoped profit for 1979 turns into a deficit.
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Weather update for Delaware and New Castle Counties
Windy and cold with variable clouds and snow flurries likely in Delaware County. Temperatures in the low 30s, tonight upper teens, northwest winds 15 to 30 mph. New Castle County sees windy cold with a possible snow high about 39, tides listed, precipitation trace this period, monthly and yearly normals noted.
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