Coal strike widens as UMW talks resume with owners
The United Mine Workers and Bituminous Coal Operators Association resume negotiating after a four day strike by about 160 000 miners. Chief mediator Wayne Horvitz says both sides exchanged ideas and will review proposals. Miller traveled to West Virginia. Sam Church leads the negotiating team. The fund crisis dominates talks as health and retirement benefits remain halted amid reduced coal production.
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United Mine Workers Union
Wayne Horvitz
UMW
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Arnold Miller
Washington
West Virginia
Miller
Sam Church
Struggles Delay Major Social Security Tax Bill
Congressional conferees clash over amendments to a proposed Social Security tax increase for 107 million workers. Moynihan welfare provisions spark dispute as Carter administration negotiates, risking passage this year or next.
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Congress
Senate
House
Carter Administration
Senate House Conference Committee
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Dn.y
Senate Finance
Moynihan
New York City
Carter
Russell B. Long
D-La
Senate Finance Committee
Long
Sandstrom murder trial jury receives instructions
Judge E Newton Vickers instructed the Shawnee County jury in the Milda Sandstrom case on four verdict options Innocent Innocent by reason of insanity first degree murder and second degree murder The jury deliberations begin after closing arguments and a bomb threat disrupted Kansas University housing during the day Edge of the case centers on whether she knew right from wrong amid a deteriorating marriage and contested psychiatric testimony
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Topeka
Ran
E. Newton Vickers
Milda Sandstrom
Thad M. Sandstrom
Vickers
Mrs. Sandstrom
Kansas
Shawnee County
Gene Olander
Robert D. Hecht
Sandstrom
Emanuel Tanay
Detroit
Tanny
David Abrahamson
New York City
Abrahamson
Mexico U S swap prisoners returns batch of Americans
Families welcomed home 60 Americans jailed in Mexico as 36 Mexicans left for the United States in the first cross border prisoner exchange under the 1976 treaty. Among the returnees a 60 year old grandmother and a 2 year old girl born in prison.
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San Diego
Mexico
Houston
Mexico City
United States
Walter Lumpkin
Federal Prison
Lumpkin
Mrs. Lankton
Gary Lord
Court orders release of Kissinger telephone transcripts
U S District Judge John Lewis Smith Jr ruled that transcripts of Henry Kissinger calls during Ford and Nixon administrations are public property. The recordings, created by government staff on government time, belong to the Department of State, despite Kissinger's contention they were private.
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Washington
Henry Kissinger
Ford
Nixon
U. S
John Lewis Smith Jr
Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press
Kissinger
Smith
Presi
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
Library of Congress
Department of State
Kissinger Transcripts Placed in Public Domain by Smith Ruling
In a nine page order Smith held that Kissinger by State Department policy placed transcripts in the public domain. Officials note monitoring of calls was banned except for essential business. During Ford's final days Kissinger gave notes and other papers to the Library of Congress with access limited to himself or appointees for 25 years or until five years after death.
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Smith
Kissinger
State Department
United States
Library of Congress
Police await lab results on recovered car in Lawrence slaying
Investigators sought three people for questioning after the Norwood homicide in East Lawrence. A 1977 Chevrolet Caprice, stolen in November near Denver, was found in Kansas City on Wednesday, with tire-track tests to compare to evidence near the murder scene.
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Lawrence
Denver
Colo
Kansas City
Kenneth Harmon
Samuel C. Norwood
East Lawrence
Norwood
Harmon
Douglas County
Mike Malone
KU Fire Inspectors Cite Widespread Violations on Campus
A state fire marshal team found fire code violations in nearly every KU building during a thorough visit to the Lawrence campus. The issues ranged from alarm and exit lighting failures to ceiling and structural deficiencies. Recommendations split into urgent fixes within 60 days and costlier items to be reviewed by the Kansas Board of Regents.
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Kansas University
del Shankel
Lawrence
Paul Markley
Kansas Board of Regents
Shankel
Markley
Regents
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