Carter tempers price stance in energy debate
During a Senate debate on natural gas pricing President Carter signaled acceptance of a $2.05 ceiling on interstate gas while backing the House position of $1.75 in the final bill. House and Senate aims diverge on tax credits and price controls as a conference panel shapes the compromise.
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Carter
House
House- Senate
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Senate Energy Committee
Jail deaths mount in the county correctional facility
Police report the third inmate death at the L.B. jail since September as inquiries continue. Earlier cases include Gary Beckering, 19, found dead from an apparent heroin overdose linked to items stolen from the evidence room, and James Lucas, 48, who died in an isolation cell of unknown natural causes. Autopsy results were not yet available.
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Gary W. Beckering
Rose Ave
James B. Lucas
New York Ave
Symates
Raymond Krone
Red Adair to snuff raging oil blaze near Taft
Fire at Hills Naval Oil Reserve well near Taft exploded killing three workers. Red Adair arrived from Houston with a special crew to use explosives and equipment to cap the inferno that fed from a vast oil reservoir. The blaze, five miles from any community, was expected to take a coordinated snuff effort starting at 7 a m.
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Elk Hills Naval Reserve
Red Adair
TAFT
Lir Hills Naval Oil Reserve
Mies
Long Beach
Alaska Arxi
East Texas
Navy
Conner
Adair
Houston
Sickle cell vaccine shows promise but FDA approval pending
Merck developed a pneumococcal vaccine targeting four strains to protect sickle cell patients. UCSF tested 105 youths with eight infections and two deaths. elderly may also benefit. The New England Journal of Medicine published results. testing continues for normal children ages 9 months to 4 years, with broader use possible within three to four years.
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Merck, Sharpe and Dohme
Ammann
UCSF
Bhi Lilly Co
National Institutes of Health
New England Journal of Medicine
U.S
21 American bodies return from Vietnam burial at Oakland
At Travis Air Force Base a military honors procession received 21 coffins from a C 141 Starlifter. The lineup included 20 Air Force and Navy fliers and one civilian identifications were done at Hickam. They were among 22 handed to a U S delegation in Hanoi. One body remained unidentified in Vietnam.
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Fla
Air Force
Navy
U.S
Vietnam
Hanoi
Nawab
Weather and strikes hit U.S. steel profits in 1977
Pittsburgh AP reports cold wet weather and coal mine and ore region strikes compounded by import competition and low prices. Analysts say nine months into 1977 show crisis, with Bethlehem Steel posting a $477 million third quarter loss due to mill closings and writeoffs.
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Appalachian
Midwest
U.S
Bethlehem Steel
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Steel
Seco
Wife killer says death penalty is for such crimes
Daniel R. Webster admitted murdering his wife and told jurors the death sentence is meant for crimes like his. He called the gas chamber appropriate and said he ruined his wife’s life with no reason, while the jury weighs life imprisonment or death.
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Mocksville
N.C
Daniel R. Webster
North Carolina
Webster
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