Carter Energy Allies Try To Salvage Plan In Congress
Democratic leaders push for a House-Senate conference to salvage parts of President Carter energy plan after the Senate gutted price controls and tax provisions. Conference talks aim to craft a compromise focusing on insulation and solar credits while easing energy taxes to spur production.
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Capitol Hill
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House
Natural Gas Conference Committee
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Senate Finance Committee
Chamber
Russell Long
D-La
Train derailment alarm rocks Fort Smith rider
Passenger Terence T. DeFilippo described the derailment of the Southern Crescent as feeling like an earthquake while he lay in a hospital bed in Rowan Memorial Hospital with numbness in his back and legs. The incident occurred as the train traveled toward its destination.
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Fort Smith, Ark
Rowan Memorial Hospital
Southern Crescent
Farmers Strike Seen as Last Hope to Save Family Farms
Nebraska wheat farmer George Boucher leads a broader movement calling for a December 14 strike to halt grain sales and pressure Congress. He says over half of Nebraska’s farmers back the action, with rallies in Nebraska and neighboring states and organizers pledging to withhold taxes and purchases until the U.S. Department of Agriculture is controlled by farmers.
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American Agriculture
Lexington
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Home Births and Midwifery Laws in North Carolina
Q and A discuss NC midwife legality, noting no formal state training programs since 1964, granny midwives in eastern rural areas, and certified nurse midwives whose status uncertain. The letter criticizes deli workers’ hygiene practices, urging better sanitation and use of towels or papers.
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Division of Health Services
Raleigh
American College of Nurse-Midwives
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President Carter signs bill affecting veteran discharges
Carter signs legislation that may revoke VA benefit eligibility for about 16 000 veterans whose discharges were upgraded under a prior program. The measure requires case by case re evaluation, sets new upgrading standards dating to World War I, and could affect veterans with AWOL records. Carter avoided a veto despite close calls at Camp David and noted possible future legislation.
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Carter
White House
Stuart Eizenstat
Congress
Eizenstat
Pentagon
Bubble Baby Dies After Bubble Age Immune transplant
Demetrius Valvarigos, 18 months old, died after a fetal liver tissue transplant at Sloan Kettering. He had spent most of his life in a germ free bubble due to Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease. His mother, Mario Valvarigos of Albuquerque, was with him at death.
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Sloan- Kettering Hospital
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Richard O'Reilly
Mario Valvarigos
Albuquerque
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O'Reilly
Sloan-Kettering
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