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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1977
Page
2
New York prices declined slightly in a quiet trading day. The noon Dow Jones average fell 2.49 to 945.81 as losers outpaced gainers about 7 to 4 on the NYSE. Hecla Mining dropped 4 to 12 percent after reporting a 2.8 million dollar fourth quarter loss.
A brief AP market roundup lists noon national price data for many stocks with percentages showing gains and declines. The High Point Enterprise notes the NYSE figures amid standard stock listings and includes publication details.
An Associated Press report notes mixed but generally higher New York Stock Exchange noon indices led by financials and technology names. Tandy, Texaco, Textron, and Texaco contributed to gains while some industrials lagged, signaling a cautious uptrend in midday trading.
President Carter links closer U S Cuba relations to Cuba curb aggression and respect human rights. Cuba seeks repeal of the U S trade embargo in exchange for extending the anti hijacking pact beyond its April expiry.
E Howard Hunt Jr. leaves prison after paying a $10,000 fine and may attend a $2 million Watergate civil case next week. Co defendants include John Mitchell Maurice Stans Jeb Magruder Hugh Sloan Porter and G Gordon Liddy with the Nixon re election committee and its finance arm named as defendants. The suit by Barker Martinez Gonzalez and Sturgis accuses them of luring participants under false security agency pretenses. Pre trial motions and possible out of court settlement could delay the case.
In Washington AP reports some House members may try to block weekend adjournment to force a recorded vote on a $12,900 pay raise for Congress. Most expect the raise from $44,600 to $57,500 and similar boosts for judges to take effect automatically Sunday. The effort failed earlier, with Speaker Tip O Neill opposing moving resolutions out of committee. The Senate is not in session this week.
Negotiators for the National Football League and its players settled a three year labor dispute. No immediate details were released after a speech by Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo during the event. Grassley vows to keep fighting as midnight approaches on the automatic pay raise proposal backed by Carter.
A U N backed commission of law teachers judges and lawyers accuses Ugandan leaders of a phantom assassination plot. Archbishop Luwum and two cabinet members were arrested after a Kampala rally with confessions naming exiled Milton Obote as planner.
Senator William Proxmire condemns a $27000 SEAA study funded by federal dollars and North Carolina to learn why inmates want to escape from prison. He argues the questionnaire based findings are unreliable and mocks the premise as wasteful.
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