Carter Voter Registration Plan Puts GOP Leaders in Bind
President Carter seeks election reform allowing on election day registration with ID or a voter vouched by another, backed by subsidies but facing GOP objections over potential fraud. Senate and House leaders split on the approach amid concerns about state rights and turnout impact.
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Carter
GOP
Washington
Bill Brock
Griffin B. Bell Sug
Brock
Senate
Howard H. Baker Jr
House
John J. Rhodes
Arizona
Baker
Rhodes
White House
Light Side Of The News Roundup From Across The U S
In Omaha Officer Harley Godberson and a colleague stopped a portable toilet on wheels rolled by winds, confirming it was unoccupied. In California an unwelcome emigrant longhorned wood borer arrived in wooden shoes, the first such pest reported in the United States. In Ottumwa 15-year-old Frank Reynolds built a 32 pound mechanical hand with a $340 arm that took 1,000 hours, aiming to become a doctor in limb replacement. In Seattle police disguised as bums nabbed five would be thieves on Skid Row, arresting them during pension month to protect vulnerable targets.
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Omaha
Neb
Harley Godberson
Godberson
Sacramento
Calif
California
State Department of Food and Agriculture
United States
Phil Siebert
Ottumwa, Iowa
Frank Reynolds
Reynolds
Des Moines
Seattle
Lee Libby
Bob Fitch
Fugitive Armstrong Arrested in Toronto Connection to UW Explosion
Dwight Allan Armstrong 25, sought on murder and arson warrants for the August 1970 Madison Wisconsin bombing at Sterling Hall, was arrested in Toronto by police after being tracked from his brother Karleton Armstrong. He had been on the FBI most wanted list with David Fine and Leo Frederick Burt for the antiwar attack that killed Robert Fassnacht.
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Toronto
Ont
University of Wisconsin
Dwight Allan Armstrong
Madison
Wis
Karleton Armstrong
Robert Kellerman
Armstrong
David Fine
Leo Frederick Burt
FBI
Sterling Hall
Army Mathematics Research Center
Robert Fassnacht
Wisconsin State
Fine
Wilmington
Del
Wisconsin
California
Burt
Havertown
Kellerman
Karleton
Illinois
Protest continues as 100 handicapped demand rights at HEW
In San Francisco, 100 protesters occupy the HEW fourth floor demanding civil rights for the disabled. A bomb attempt claimed by the New World Liberation Front at a nearby Social Security site failed to detonate, causing minimal damage. FBI notes say detonation caps only caused slight damage.
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San Francisco
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
New World Liberation Front
Social Security Administration
NWSF
HEW
Charles Williams
NWLF
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Oklahoma
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Broyhill
Majestic
Harrison
Herculon
Cache Road
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