House votes to sink gas guzzler ban in energy bill
House conferees on the Carter energy plan rejected a Senate backed ban on gas guzzling cars after 1980 by a 23 to 1 vote. They favored raising penalties for low mileage fleets and delaying the ban, while also blocking an offshore oil and gas reserve development bill.
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Waslington
House
Howard M. Metzenbaum
Ohio
Senate
President Carter
J. Bennett Johnston
D-La
Mereenbaum
Johnston
Metzenbaum
House Rules Committee
Oil-well blast kills three workers on rig at Elk Hills
At Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve Taft California an oil well blast sent fire and oil 100 feet into the air killing three workers who were suspended in a basket on a 150 foot rig. Firefighter Red Adair was summoned as crews struggle to control the blaze.
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TAFT
Elk Hills Naval Oi
Kern County
Pire
Ron Marshall
Marshall
O Well
Red Adair
Houston
Williams Brothers Engineering
Adair
Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
U.S. backs U.N. embargo on arms to South Africa
Administration officials said in principle the United States favors a U.N. Security Council move to impose a mandatory embargo on arms sales to South Africa. The decision reflects alarm at the white minority crackdown on black leaders and supporters as the council debated the complaint from four nations. President Carter spoke at the White House, saying the decision was the right one but declining to specify it.
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U.S
U.N
Africa
Washington
United States
U.N. Security Council
South Africa
Carter
White House
Security Council
Bonn warns of terrorist wild fire and world covenants
West Germany mourns Hanns Martin Schreger as President Scheer calls terrorism a barbarism threatening civilization He pleads for forgiveness during a televised funeral and urges nations to adopt anti terrorism covenants to curb a wildfire effect Scheel criticizes gov ernment for not meeting kidnappers demands and releasing jailed terrorists Schmidt and cabinet join industry leaders in paying respects in Mulhouse France where Schreger was found shot in an abandoned car Turn to Back Page Col 3.
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Stuttgart
West Germany
Walter Scheer
Hanns-Martin Schreger
Scheel
Schleyer
Pvai
Helmut Schmidt
Schlever
Mulhouse
France
Picket curb at Lockheed limits two week strike
Las Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles Phillip ruled the number of nickel pickets at Lockheed Aircraft Corp plants in Burbank and Palmdale during a two week strike. No more than four pickets at gates up to 40 feet and seven at gates up to 50 feet were allowed. He cited photos showing crowding and stated union pickets intended to bar employees from entry or exit.
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Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Burbank
Palmdale
Las Aygeles Superior Court
Charles Phillip
Lockheed
Puerto Rican Nationalists Seize Statue of Liberty for Nine Hours
Puerto Rican nationalists occupied Liberty Island for nine hours invoking independence and protesting discrimination. Police arrested 30 demonstrators after entering the statue’s center foyer. none were armed. Officials warned of federal charges for trespass if any damage was found.
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Statue of Liberty
New York
API
Island
Commonwealth
Liberty Island
Hugh Groves
U.S. Parks
Groves
Puerto Rico
Robert Fiske
Mexico jail swap bill clears Congress for prisoner repatriation
The House approved a measure to enable prisoner transfers between the United States and Mexico and Canada. About 600 Americans are held in Mexico, mainly as drug couriers, with roughly 300 seeking to return. most will be eligible to apply once the treaty takes effect 30 days after President Carter signs the law.
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Mexico
Carter
Klan launches border watch along U S Mexico frontier
Ku Klux Klan members begin a 2000 mile border patrol effort from San Diego to Brownsville. David Duke says about 250 Klansmen will monitor rural border crossings while avoiding arrests, with several cars marked and members using radios to report illegal entries to immigration authorities.
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San Diego
U.s.mexico
United States
David Duke
Metairie
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
California
Texas
Duke
U.S
Allen Gerhardt
Border Patrol
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Congress
Canada
Klan
U.S. Border Patrol
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