Carter Backers Resist Major Democratic Changes At Convention
Carter supporters at the Democratic national convention in New York resist major structural reforms. The rules committee defeats proposals on vice presidential selection and a 50 percent women delegate rule as Carter moves toward the nomination. Reagan narrows Ford’s lead in the GOP delegate race while Black Democrats push minority representation protections.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Democratic Party
New York City
Carter
Ronald Reagan
Ford
Associated Press
Reagan
Democratic Rules Committee
Georgia
Rules Committee
Democratic Women’s Caucus
New York
Averill Harriman
Beirut Evacuees Head To Greece
The Spiegel Grove carried 110 Americans and 157 evacuees of other nationalities from Beirut to Athens as part of Operation Fluid Drive. The sea evacuation, ordered by President Ford, was supported by U.S. military assets with a wary peacekeeping posture amid ongoing fighting.
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Spiegel Grove
Athens
Mediterranean
Beirut
Lebanon
Ford
Damascus
Syria
National Security Council
White House
Pentagon
Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Bosun
Glen R. Kennedy
Rhinelander
Wis
Ron Nessen
Vicki Alrey
Greenwich
Conn
United States
Nessen
U.S
Yasir Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Ford Administration
PLO
Meloy
Arab League
Mideast
Congress Debates Spain Treaty Approval and Aid
Congress focuses on tax reform and foreign aid as Senate votes on a five year treaty with Spain. The pact authorizes continued U.S. use of Rota naval base and Torrejon Zaragoza and Moron air bases in exchange for 1.2 billion dollars in grants and loans, with nuclear power development credits and a phaseout of the Rota submarine squadron by 1979.
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Madrid
United States
Spain
U.S
Rota
Torrejon
Zaragoza
Moron
Senate approves Spain aid and votes on tax plan
The Senate approved a bill authorizing the first 36 million dollars in mil itary and economic aid for Spain for fiscal year 1977 and endorsed the treaty to promote free institutions and Western European cooperation. Meantime the Senate resumed debate on a broad anti recession tax package with proposals from the Finance Committee and Sen Muskie. The House scheduled a 3.95 billion public works jobs bill aiming to create 300,000 jobs and a 9.0 billion foreign aid bill for Oct 1 with 1.7 billion earmarked for Israel. A 1.1 billion authorization would keep the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration operating in 1977. News also covered campaign dynamics with Ford, Reagan, Carter, and party debates shaping the primaries and conventions.
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Congress
Senate
Spain
U.S
House
United States
Western Europe
Mittee
Ford
Israel
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
West Virginia
Arch Moore
Reagan
White House
Carter
Hamilton Jordan
Georgia
Jordan
NBC
Meet the Press
John J. Rhodes
R-Ariz
Rhodes
Indiana
Plains Baptist Church
Boston
New York
Lebanon
American Party
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Thomas Jefferson Anderson
Pigeon Forge
Tenn
Anderson
Salt Lake City
Ronald Reagan
Viking 1 completes first Mars sweep narrows orbit for July landing
Mars probe Viking 1 finishes an initial orbit sweep and begins narrowing its path to 24 hours to probe the July 4 landing site for hazards. Controllers plan a 1:43 p.m. EDT engine burn and a camera session to map temperatures and water content while the orbit shifts from 23 hours to a 24 hour Martian day.
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Pasadena
Calif
Viking 1
Mars
Viking
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jim Martin
Tom Young
Earth
Concorde Forced to Return to Dulles on Engine Trouble
British Airways Concorde carrying 77 passengers and 10 crew returned to Dulles International after an engine overheated due to a faulty exhaust door. The plane dumped fuel over Aberdeen Maryland as a precaution. fuel evaporated before impact. Flight to London was rescheduled for Monday.
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Washington
British Airways
Courthouse Bomb Blast Injures Massachusetts Man
A bomb shattered the Middlesex Superior Court entry in Owells Mass injuring maintenance man John Osmond 58. He had multiple cuts and was in good condition at St Josephs Hospital A night threat had warned of a Boston Suffolk County courthouse blast and timing fragments were found at the Owells scene.
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Owell
Mass
Middlesex Superior Courthouse
John Osmond
St. Joseph's Hospital
Osmond
Lowell
Leonard MacPhail
MacPhail
Boston
Suffolk County
Pope Paul VI laments Marxist state isolation and finds hope
The Pope voiced anguish for peoples under Marxist regimes cut off from the Vatican and named Archbishop Michele Cecchini as envoy to Yugoslavia. He urged peaceful solutions for conflicts in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Ethiopia, and Lebanon, and warned of state church tensions from ideological politics.
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Paul VI
Vatican
Yugoslavia
Michele Cecchini
Cuba
South Africa
Northern Ireland
Ethiopia
Lebanon
Eritrea
Austral
Africa
Middle East
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Edmund S. Muskie
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