Primaries Loom Over Energy Bill Politics Ford Faces Backlash
Republican leaders warn Ford weighs politics as two early primaries in New Hampshire and Massachusetts loom. They urge veto to avoid boosting imported oil reliance. Zarb doubts big gas price cuts. price controls to end in 1979 with a defined barrel price. Democrats warn of higher prices and inflation if controls end.
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Jim Luther
Associated Press
Washington
Ford
Paul J. Fannin
Rariz
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Fannin
Clarence Brown
Ohio
U.S
Frank G. Zarb
Congress
Zarb
Southern
Assn
Boca Raton
Fla
Congressional
Helms Opposes Rumsfeld Nomination After Short Senate Debate
In a 95 to 2 vote the Senate confirmed Donald H. Rumsfeld as secretary of defense under President Ford. Sen. Jesse Helms and Sen. Richard Stone opposed, calling it a protest against the nomination scenario. Helms condemned replacing Schlesinger and criticized Kissinger, urging firing of the Secretary of State instead.
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Washington
Senate
Ford
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Defense
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
Richard Stone
D-Fla
Rumsfeld
Helms
Schlesinger
Henry A. Kissinger
Ronald Reagan
Tax questions and local inquiries spark reader column
A compilation of reader questions covers school taxes for veterans and disabled individuals, murder statistics in High Point with clearance rates, stamp club contact details, and a fall program on recognizing differences in children at High Point Central High School. The piece preserves local voices, facts, and event notices in a concise, period newspaper voice.
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Action Line
High Point
B.E.G
Police Dept
Stamp Club
S.A. R
Greensboro Stamp Club
Lindley Recreation Center
Spring Garden Street
Wendover Avenue
Donald L. Mason
Club
P.O. Box
Greensboro
N.C
Cape Hatteras Stamp and Coin Co., Inc
Battleground Ave
Plaza Center
P.O
Family Life Council of
Greater High Point
High Point Central High School
Virginia Lewis
Pannelists
Helen Miller
LaVerne Hendrix
Merel Spivey
Up In The Air Rescue Net Shown By Helicraft Ltd
Two people demonstrate a safety net designed by Montreal based Helicraft Ltee. The net hangs below a helicopter to evacuate people trapped by smoke or fire in high rise buildings, offering a rapid rescue option.
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Helicraft Ltee
Home Births Show Fewer Complications for Mothers and Babies
A California study presented for the American Public Health Assn shows 287 home births from 1971 to 1973 in Santa Cruz, led by Stanford and UC Santa Cruz researchers. They report fewer complications, fewer prematurity, and lower toxemia with natural, non anesthetized births at home under midwife care, noting Chicago and other regions had similar findings.
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Chicago
California
The
American Public Health Assn
Stanford University
University of California At Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Eldridge Cleaver Flies Back To U S
Eldridge Cleaver returned to the United States from Paris after seven years in exile as he sought a fair trial. A Caravelle runway incident delayed his Air France flight, and he arrived at Kennedy International Airport accompanied by three FBI agents amid questions of parole violation and a pending grand jury indictment.
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Paris
Eldridge Cleaver
United States
America
Cleaver
Charles de Gaulle
Air France
Kennedy Inter National
New York
Goodby
FBI
California
Opanasenko
Eduard Kuznetsov
Leningrad
Radioactive Spill Found at Duke Power Plant
Duke Power Co officials disclosed a recurring discharge of radioactive water from the Oconee nuclear plant into Hartwell Reservoir near Clemson South Carolina. The No 2 reactor began operation in 1973 and the NRC inspector said the spills have been corrected and pose no health risk.
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Winston-Salem
Duke Power Co
Oconee
Hartwell Reservoir
Clemson
S.C
Duke
Don Knuth
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Senate panel drops name of CIA official in assassination plot
Washington AP reports the Senate intelligence committee voted to delete the name of an unnamed former CIA official linked to plots to kill foreign leaders. Public hearings began on FBI surveillance concerns as attorneys argued publication could endanger the individual.
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Washington
Senate Intelligence Committee
CIA
U.S. Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
FBI
U.S. District Court
Gerhard Gesell
Gesell
Horrors Of Soviet Political Prisons Chronicled
Amnesty International reports dire conditions for about 10,000 political prisoners in the USSR amid hunger, dangerous work, random beatings, and abuse in psychiatric hospitals. The 150 page study profiles several prisoners of conscience and cites self harm and suicides as a common outcome.
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London
Amnesty International
Soviet Union
The
Ussr
Opanasenko
Perm Colony
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Sen. Helms
Lewis E. Mehl
Gail Peterson
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Nancy Shaw
Don C. Creevy
Appalachia
Netherlands
Tones
SB Television
Peeeea
Kuzet- Sov
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