Park Land Buy Plan Faces Delay in Nevada
Carson City. The State Park System faces criticism for dragging its feet on a $2.5 million recreation land purchase amid a voters approved $10 million bond. Assemblyman Don Mello and Sen. James Gibson pressed Park Administrator John Meder at a Legislative Interim Finance Committee meeting, noting two years have passed since approval and no parcels bought.
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Carson City
UPD
State Park System
Nevada
Don Mello
Dsparks
Len Floyd Lamb
D-Las Vegas
Mello
John Meder
Legislative Interim Finance Committee
Meder
Park Division
Lamb
Kissinger Bids Farewell as Carter Pledges Strong NATO Ties
At a Brussels gathering Kissinger praised by peers for a career in diplomacy wore a gray pin stripe suit as Carter pledged a strengthened American commitment to NATO. Carter said NATO remains essential to North American and Western European security and urged full cooperation with Cyrus Vance as successor. He warned Moscow against further adventurism while rejecting Brezhnev proposals for a mutual freeze and a no first use treaty.
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Brussels
Belgium
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
America
NATO
Jimmy Carter
Kissinger
United States
Carter
North America
Europe
Council
Jose Medeiro Fereirra
Portugal
Anthony Crosland
London
Cyrus Vance
Moscow
Angola
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Warsaw Pact
Fords Decorate White House Tree For Christmas
Betty Ford decorated the White House Blue Room Christmas tree and expressed a wish for love and peace in the nation and world. She dismissed the idea of a sad Christmas for the Fords and said she plans to stay active after President Ford leaves office.
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Washington
UPI
Betty Ford
White House
Fords
Jerry
Betty
Blind Miami snack bar owner robbed at gunpoint
Ronald Kazmark, legally blind, says two men robbed his 245 dollar weekly profits from a snack stand in a Dade County office building. He notes support from locals has topped 700 dollars, plans to buy an alarm, and says the state's petty cash is unaffected.
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MIAMI
UPI
Ronald Kazmark
Dade County
Kazmark
N. Flagler Street
Florida Bureau of Blind Services
Shelley Boone
Boone
Bruno
Cable Car Workers Crushed In San Francisco Accident
Two machinists were killed when a two ton underground wheel used to operate a Nob Hill California line cable car crushed them after workers entered an adjacent chamber. Leo nie De Vost aged 55 was named. the second worker’s identity was withheld. The California line was shut for pulley repairs amid system parts and manpower shortages affecting San Francisco’s tourist tramway.
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San Francisco
UPI
Municipal Railway
California
Mason Streets
Nob Hill
Leonie de Vost
Fisherman’s Wharf
Pardon Rebuffed For Spiro Agnew
Washington reports that former Vice President Spiro Agnew, who pled no contest to income tax evasion in 1973, failed to obtain a Ford pardon. An Anderson column notes Agnew sought pardon shortly after October 10 when probation ended, but White House counsel directed his attorney to the Justice Department.
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Washington
UPI
Spiro Agnew
Ford
Jack Anderson
Anderson
Agnew
Buchen
Justice Department
White House
Seagram Plans Appeal of Import Suspension
Seagram and Sons will appeal a nine day suspension of wholesale and import permits by the ATF. The firm will present oral arguments before ATF director Rex Davis after written briefs were filed. The case centers on incentive trips for executives at distributors, with Seagram defending the trips as standard promotions while the ATF says they violated the act by excluding other products.
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New York
API
Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc
Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
ATF
Rex Davis
Sus
Seagram
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Lahontan Reservoir
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D Henderson
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Crosland
Rhodesia
Geneva
Upitoto
Dortmund
West Germany
Yale
Spiro
Maryland
Pecos AD
Halco, Inc
Don Freedman
Main ST
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Las Vegas Strip
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