House energy bill vote shapes 1977 and 1982 tax plan
The floor debate features a proposed tax on oil at 14 dollars per barrel and natural gas at 18 cents per 1000 cubic feet with exemptions. It also envisions selective energy-saving tax cuts and repeals on certain taxes while a key maneuver by Rep. Conable failed 270 to 156. House passage followed as party lines formed, with Abbot pushing for compromise energy legislation with the White House.
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Barber B. Conable
R-N.y
House
Ways and Means Committee
Commerce Committee
Conable
al Us- Man
D-Ore
Carl Albert
Abbert
Congress
Albert
White House
Sandstorm halts California desert traffic and damages vehicles
A severe desert sandstorm on Interstate 10 near Indio and Palm Springs stranded up to 70 vehicles as wind speeds hurled dunes up to five feet high. CHP rescued many motorists while sand damaged windshields and paint. A Florida couple fled a shattered window as sand flooded their car, and utilities reported extensive power line work needed at Cabazon.
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California
Interstate 10
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Sinai Peninsua
Florida
Indio
Palm Springs
CHP
Ford crime plan seeks tougher sentences and reforms
President Ford urged Congress to back a broad crime package to curb violent crime, aid victims, and overhaul sentencing. Proposals include tougher penalties for racketeering, expanded appellate review of federal sentences, higher fines, drug control enhancements, gun dealer verifications, new humane prisons, and focus on rehabilitation for first offenders. The plan seeks bipartisan, prompt action with funding for prison modernization and expanded enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Pleasanton
Calif
Levi
Man Wakes After Eight Years in Sleep in Texas
Gene Tipps woke from an eight year sleep in Seymour Texas’s hospital after an early May 1967 car crash left him comatose. He awoke during gall bladder surgery recovery and said he wanted to talk, recalling little of the intervening years. Tipps now aims to finish college at Cisco Junior and pursue business studies at West Texas State University this fall.
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Tipps
C. M. Randal
Randal
Rao
Mattle
Ipps
Cisco Junior, College
Ilst
Cisco Junior College
West Texas State University
IRS list links Stars and Legion to intelligence files
IRS says a portion of its intelligence index includes names of public figures and groups such as the American Legion and the American Independent Party. Names like John Wayne Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Doris Day Jill St John Thomas Bradley Augustus Hawkins Garner Ted Armstrong and Walter Annenberg appear alongside political groups and other organizations. The agency cautions the documents may be copies from its IG RS index and that further discussion would violate taxpayer information laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Tax Resister Project
American Legion
American Independent Party
Alabama
George C. Wallace
John Wayne
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Doris Day
Jill St. John
Thomas Bradley
Augustus Hawkins
Garner Ted Armstrong
Walter Annenberg
Wayne
Sinatra
Martin
Day
St. John
Los Angeles
California
Britain
Nixon
Philip L. Rothchild
IRS
Tax Agency
Information Gathering and Retrieval System
IGRS
Rothchild
Detroit
Associated Press
Cnde
Black Panther Party
Communist Party USA
Gay Liberation Front
Angela Davis
Ramsey Clark
American Civil Liberties Union
Congressional
Senate Watergate Committee
Underground H-bomb tests shake Las Vegas area
A hydrogen war head detonated 3000 feet underground near Nevada’s desert, causing seismic readings around 5.6 to 5.9 and shaking Las Vegas high rises. The Musi blast, one of the strongest in two years, delayed a day due to winds as ERDA conducts tests before a Russia treaty bans near megaton explosions.
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Pahute Mesa
Ney
Upt
Russia
Las Vegas
Pasadena
Calif
Dugway
Utah
Energy Research and Development Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
Israel maps permanent borders for peace talks plan
Prime Minister Rabin and Labor Party outline a plan defining Israel’s borders including annexation of the Golan Heights and Gaza Strip, with the Jordan River as the security line. The plan signals willingness to negotiate sovereignty over Sinai and Sharm el Sheikh, while keeping Golan Heights nonnegotiable, and faces parliamentary approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tel Aviv
Yitzhak Rabin
Labor Party
Israel
Golan Heights
Gaza Strip
London
Middle East
Egypt
Syria
Meir Zarmi
Jordan River
West Jordan
Zarmi
Sharm el Sheikh
Sinai Peninsula
Rabin
Sinai Desert
Labor Alignment
Goveipment
Parliame
Labor
Sepa
Golan
Harmer
Ford to resume Pico Rivera production after week layoff
Ford Motor Co will restart car plant output in Pico Rivera Monday ending a week of layoffs for 3,450 workers. The company had 19,175 workers off, with 19,025 of 174,000 hourly workers on open ended furlough next week, including 150 on temporary layoff across scattered plants. This furlough total is Ford's lowest of the year after earlier larger layoff levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Pico Rivera
Ford
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Cabawon
America
Atty
Edward F. Levi
Ite
Treasury Department
Seymour, Tex
Gene Tipps
Stars
Legion
Michael Putzel
Vegas
Oo Rey Te
Ny A
Mee Energy
Atlantic Ave
Long Beach
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