Ford seeks five year limit on school desegregation busing
President Ford sent Congress a bill to cap busing remedies at five years and limit court orders to correcting segregation caused by official government actions. He urged voluntary desegregation while allowing some court action, and proposed an independent committee to assist communities in resolving segregation issues.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
White House
National
Boone area public trout streams and youth fishing rules
Reader asks about accessible public trout streams near Boone and licensing. Answer: under 16 may fish without a license if a parent with proper license accompanies. Nearby public-access streams exist in Boone per Benny Phillips. best to seek local permission.
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Boone
K.W
North Carolina
Benny Phillips
Court Strikes Down Overtime Provision
The Supreme Court in a 5 to 4 decision voided a two year federal extension of the Fair Labor Standards Act to about 3.4 million state and local government workers. The ruling overruled prior precedents and warned about interstate commerce power limiting federal mandates on state and local governance. The decision also questions extensions to state hospitals and schools and notes wage and cost implications, with dissenting opinions from Brennan White Marshall and Stevens.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
William J. Brennan Jr
Byron R. White
Thurgood Marshall
John Paul Stevens
Willam H. Rehnquist
Last Stand 100 Years Ago Custer Had Bad Press
A descendant of George Armstrong Custer reflects on the Little Bighorn battle anniversary in New Orleans. RL Custer, 21, says he will attend the Montana site and argues Custer died amid a era of expansion and politics. Historian Ambrose is cited on ambition over hatred, with notes on insurance ties to New York Life and the 7th Cavalry.
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New Orleans
Robert Lee Custer
George Armstrong Custer
Little Bighorn
Custer
Montana
R.L. Custer
America
Stephen E. Ambrose
University of New Orleans
New York Life Insurance Co I
New York Life Agent
St. Paul
Minn
7Th Cavalry
Carter Tells Democrats He Will Be Aggressive Yet Cooperative
President hopeful Jimmy Carter told House Democrats he will be aggressive and determined as president while seeking cooperation with Congress. He discussed a running mate list of 10 or 12 and said he may pick a candidate with a Washington background who could be a woman or a Black. Carter plans meetings with key Democrats and declined Ford’s FBI background check on candidates.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Congress
Democratic
Carter
Georgia
Ford
FBI
Advisers Leaving Nationalist China Islands Near Taiwan
The last U.S. military advisers on Quemoy and Matsu are being withdrawn as part of a worldwide troop reduction tied to the 1972 Shanghai communique. About five or six advisers remain, with no timetable given, as Washington seeks to normalize relations with Peking and reduce Far East military activity.
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Washington
U.S
Quemoy
Matsu
China
State Department
Shanghai
Richard M. Nixon
United States
Far East
Ronald Reagan
Ford Administration
Taiwan
Peking
Chiang Kai-shek
Carter Leads Ford Reagan in Harris Survey
Former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter holds a 53-40 lead over President Ford and 58-35 over Ronald Reagan in a mid June Harris poll of 1,480 voters. Carter dominates the South and margins widen among labor, Black, liberal, Catholic, and Democratic groups. He carries the border states 38-29 over Ford and 68-28 over Reagan, with deep South leads around 57-38 and 55-37 respectively. He also outscores both rivals among Jews and younger voters under 30. Continuous support signals Carter’s broad cross group appeal post primary.
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Louis Harris
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Ford
Calif
Ronald Reagan
Harris
Carter
South
Gerald Ford
Deep South
Reagan
California
George McGovern
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Rehnquist
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Ambrose
House
Carl Albert
Thomas P. O'Neill
New York
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Thomas O'Neill
Robert Byrd
West Virginia
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Henry Jackson
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