1976 Special Session Ends With Budget Pay Raise Plan
North Carolina lawmakers adjourned after two weeks of wrangling over a 3.4 billion 1978 77 budget that funds a statewide kindergarten program and a 4 percent plus 300 pay raise for teachers and state workers. A 67 million windfall financing act shifts monthly tax remittances to May and June 1977 to support the plan. The budget expands kindergarten capacity to 28 per class and adds 9.6 million for higher enrollments plus 10 million for teacher benefits amid political sparring.
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Ralph Scott
D-Alamance
Reagan Leaves Michigan Stump and Ford Campaigns In Home State
Reagan detoured his Michigan primary bid for a Oklahoma stop while Ford headlined a southern Michigan tour. Carter faced challenges in Michigan and Maryland as Udall and Brown competed. A rock concert for Brown drew teens while Meany met Carter in Washington. Udall denied a deal with Church over primaries, and Wallace struggled to draw crowds in Michigan.
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Anti-American Protests Loom in Germany During Bicentennial Event
In Frankfurt and West Berlin, authorities prepared for protests as Vice President Rockefeller spoke at St. Paul’s Church with Chancellor Schmidt. Police banned demonstrations during the stopover after a dummy time-bomb was found near the church, while Meinhof’s funeral in Berlin drew ultra-leftist rallies.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
Helmut Schmidt
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Germany
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Knut Mueller
West Berlin
Ulrike Meinhof
Haskell Says Callaway Used Influence On Ski Resort Move
Senate panel chair Floyd Haskell alleges Army Secretary Callaway pressed to expand the Crested Butte complex onto federally owned land. Testimony notes Forest Service officials deny political pressure and suggest the same result might have occurred anyway. Callaway resigned Ford campaign post amid the dispute and denies improper pressure, while promising to discredit witnesses.
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Washington
Maskell
Ford
Israeli ministers clash threatens cabinet survival
In Jerusalem ministers Rabin and Peres exchange sharp clashes over arms deals and West Bank policy. Analysts warn persistent quarrels destabilize the Labor-led government as the Religious Party threatens to quit and other factions dispute peace moves. Foreign Minister Ezer Weizman is noted as a dove amid the strife.
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Rahin
Medical schools worry over minority admission standards
Boston AP doctors warn that minority students may be admitted or graduated despite failing to meet strict academic requirements. Harvard officials deny waiving graduation standards while acknowledging slightly relaxed entrance criteria to boost minority enrollments. About 3,500 Black students attended U.S. medical schools this year amid efforts to increase Black physicians to 10,000 among 300,000.
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F. Sargent Cheevers
Harvard Medical School
Bernard J. Davis
New England Journal of Medicine
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Harvard
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Police Kill Robbery Suspect in Brink's Holdup
In Montreal police shot and killed a robbery suspect during a west side apartment raid connected to a Brink's truck heist. The March 3052.8 million theft involved five bandits using an anti aircraft gun to seize cash and Olympic coins totaling 2.8 million, with denominations mostly under 100 dollars.
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Montreal
West Side
Censorship tensions rise as Bladen board shelves Hemingway titles
Tar Heel North Carolina AP reports Bladen County School Board orders screening for profanity or sexual content. Twenty books pulled for review include Hemingway novels For Whom the Bell Tolls A Farewell to Arms and To Have and Have Not along with Airport and poetry by black authors. Principal Charles W Tedder says the memo requires screening and potential permanent removal with faculty input and no clear criteria yet.
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