Bumpers Advocates Southern Character and Healing Role
Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers told Bowdoin College listeners that the South’s character, forged by adversity, can aid national healing amid Watergate and Vietnam. He noted Carter’s election as significant and reflected on his own presidential aspirations before focusing on regional identity and continuity. The article also describes the Mid Ocean Ridge and its Atlantic spreading activity.
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Brunswick
Maine
South
Arkansas
Dale Bumpers
Jimmy Carter
Judges seek relief for Arkansas civil caseload backlog
Three federal judges in eastern Arkansas urge Congress to add judges to ease a backlog that has doubled over five years. They met with Rep. Alexander and Rep. Thornton and plan another talk with Sen. Bumpers and officials. They cite Ed Bethune nomination delay as a contributing factor.
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Little Rock
Federal District Court For
Arkansas
Bill Alexander
Osceola
Ray Thornton
Sheridan
G. Thomas Eisele
Dale Bumpers
Dark
Congress
Ed Bethune
Oren Harris
Alexander
Thornton
Heavy year of labor negotiations looms
Washington forecasts indicate a heavy year of bargaining with about five million workers in major contracts affecting steel coal longshoring telephone aerospace railroading and construction. Inflation fears hinge on wage settlements near 8 percent while unemployment remains high.
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Washington
Carter
Kowtow
W J. Usery Jr
Ion
Usery
Ford Administration
United Auto Workers
United Mine Workers
Ford cuts forms but hours to complete rise
President Ford reduced the number of federal forms by 10 percent, but the total time required to fill them out rose by about 13 million hours. HEW leads in burden, increasing hours from 43.2 to 49.8 million as forms dropped from 797 to 798. Labor adds about 5 million hours despite fewer forms.
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Washington
Ford
Office of Management and Budget
OMB
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Department of Labor
Feminists critique court trend threatens women's rights gains
Feminists fear Supreme Court setbacks signal a reversal of recent gains for women's rights. They vow renewed effort for the Equal Rights Amendment while criticizing rulings on pregnancy benefits, Social Security for divorced women, and a Kentucky name-change license law.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Kentucky
High Court
Judy Lichtman
Women’s Legal Defense Fund
Electors debate abolishing the Electoral College
As Carter's victory was certified 297 electors backed Carter 240 Ford and one Reagan. Some electors and professors urged abolition citing the College as cumbersome. Iowa and Wisconsin electors voiced fears, while Ohio faced lawsuits over voting irregularities. The final tally reflected record turnout.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Calif
Ronald Reagan
Lawrence Longley
Wisconsin
Iowa
James Senior
Congress
White House
Carter
Ford
Reagan
Carter to wear blue jeans in White House with caveat
President elect Jimmy Carter says he will wear blue jeans as daily dress but will not do so during formal meetings such as a conference with a French ambassador wearing a morning coat. He plans to continue jogging and says he never doubted victory, noting he and Rosalynn sleep in a double bed.
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New York
Jimmy Carter
White House
ABC
Barbara Walters
Rosalynn
Carter
Conviction of banker upheld in hit man case
The Louisiana Supreme Court denied Roche's appeal of his 1975 conviction for trying to hire a hit man to kill Garner Adams Jr., a bank computer expert and son of the CEO. Roche argued 11 legal errors, but justices found no merit. Roche testified he believed the conversation was a joke.
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Louisiana Supreme Court
Robert M. Roche
Roche
Washington Bank & Trust Co
Rex Armistead
Garner S. Adams Jr
Adams
Bank
Armistead
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