Carter to push limited stimulus amid cabinet talks
President elect Carter weighs an economic package of perhaps 15 billion with many urging up to 20 billion. He met with advisers including Mondale and Fizenstat to outline a broader reform agenda touching welfare tax and health while seeking congressional backing.
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Ional Black Caucus
Ford Administration
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Ford
Stuart Fizenstat
Fizenstat
Hick
Walter Mondale
California governor seeks tax relief and reforms
Governor Brown urged a new relief plan for homeowners tied to a statutory limit on property taxes and a constitutional split of the tax roll to protect homeowners while keeping business burden steady. He pressed for school financing changes, water rationing, a liquefied natural gas terminal, expanded citizen volunteerism, and broad reform of California’s slow, archaic criminal justice system.
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Carter's Election Is Certified By Joint Congressional Session
A half hour joint session of Congress certified Jimmy Carter's election as president and Walter Mondale as vice president. Rockefeller presided as 51 envelopes opened showed Carter with 207 electoral votes, Ford 240, and Reagan 1, with an extra vote from a rebel elector. Bayh vows to push direct popular election reforms despite Carter's margin.
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Holiday shopping tops forecasts for major retailers
New York AP reports December sales met or exceeded expectations due to cold weather and a strong holiday finish. Sears Roebuck plus Montgomery Ward show gains with Sears at 12.4 percent higher for five weeks ending Jan 1, and Ward up 7.0 percent. Sears decks debt plan to fund real estate and store expansion.
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Montgomery Ward & Co
Mobil Corp
Sinatra’s mother aboard missing jet in California mountains
LAS VEGAS AP A twin engine private jet carrying Frank Sinatra’s mother Dolly Sinatra 82 disappeared Thursday night en route from Palm Springs to Las Vegas where Sinatra was to perform at Caesars Palace. Four aboard including two crewmen were reported. the aircraft owned by Jet Avia Inc. and last contact made near Palmdale. Search and rescue were planned pending weather.
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Lee Solters
Natalie
Dolly” Sinatra
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Cesars Palace
Solters
Y Det Avia Inc
Bob Bender
Jet Avia
Palmdale
Jakeet
Bender
San Bernardino Mountains
Carter selects McGee as U S OAS delegate on Panama Canal
President elect Jimmy Carter chooses Gale W. McGee to be the U S representative to the Organization of American States. The 61 year old former history professor from the University of Chicago has backed a treaty fixing a date for U S control over the Panama Canal, a stance debated since his 1976 campaign and linked to stalled negotiations with Panama. Latin American diplomats view the move as evidence of Carter's seriousness about a new canal treaty, despite past campaign remarks about maintaining control.
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Jimmy Carter
Gale W. McGee
D.wyo
McGee
Latin America
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Panama Canal
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University of Chicago
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Henry A. Kissinger
Carter
Panama Canal Zone
Woman considered for top USDA consumer post in Carter era
Carol Foreman, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America, was reported as a candidate for assistant secretary in charge of consumer affairs at the Agriculture Department. No offer had been made. she would be the highest ranking woman at USDA since the 1960s if chosen.
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Agriculture Department
Jimmy Carter
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Carter
Bob Bergland
Dmion
Federation
Foreman
USDA
President Johnson
Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Dorothy H. Jacobson
Vehicle rolls kill Long Beach guard at Wilmington terminal
Harbor Division police say Henry Hicks, 9, of 2090 Magnalia Ave., Long Beach, was killed when a small vehicle he parked at 5:30 p.m. rolled down a slope at California United Terminal Berth 42 and crushed him against a garage door. He was pronounced dead at the scene by another guard.
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Yolice
Henry Hicks
Magnalia Ave
California United Terminal
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