Spaniard Wins '77 Nobel Prize For Literature
Vicente Aleixandre, a 79 year old Spanish surrealist poet who lived through the civil war and tuberculosis, wins the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature for a poetic body that illuminates human fate in cosmos and society. The Swedish Academy notes his time and opposition to violence as factors in his selection.
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Vicente Aleixandre
Spain
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Swedish Academy of Letters
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Britain
Doris Lessing
West Germany
Guenther Grass
Turkey
Yasar Kemal
Colombia
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lars Gyllensten
Gyllensten
Saul Bellow
J.R. Jimenez
Puerto Rico
Seville
Madrid
Federico Garcia Lorca
Garcia Lorca
Francisco Franco
Spanish Academy
Commercial College
Weather Outlook Shows Cloudy Skies and Showers This Week
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and cool temperatures with a 46 percent chance of precipitation tonight and 5 percent on Friday. Friday’s high expected in the upper 60s, tonight’s low in the mid 50s. Wednesday’s high was 76 and overnight low 33.
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Corrective Actions Begin Shortages Weaken U S Strength In Land War
AP investigations, led by Peter Arnett and Fred Hoffman, find America's conventional war capability weakened by shortages in weapons and munitions. Pentagon corrective steps will take two to six years. Army officials warn of being outgunned while strategic nuclear forces remain strong.
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America
Peter Arnett
Fred Hoffman
Ashington
Pentagon
Associated Press
David Jones
Air Force
Defense Department
Navy
Final Decision On New Missile Due In Months
Defense Secretary Harold Brown may decide within months whether to push full scale development of a mobile MX intercontinental ballistic missile. A Pentagon spokesman and budget review in fall set November or December for a final choice as the project could cost up to 30 billion dollars.
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Washington
Harold Brown
Pentagon
Thomas Ross
Brown
Ross
Soviet Union
IEA agrees 1985 oil import limits for 19 nations
The United States and 18 other nations approve a plan to cap 1985 oil imports from OPEC at 26 million barrels daily, about 20 percent below forecasts. The accord urges nuclear and coal use and warns of serious global consequences if policies fail to strengthen.
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United States
International Energy Agency
IEA
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Carter
Congress
U.S
James R. Schlesinger
Wholesale Prices Rise In September
Wholesale prices increased by half a percent in September the largest rise since April as food price declines slowed. Industrial commodities led with an eight tenths rise, lumber and wood up 4.4 percent amid housing demand, with fuels mines and transport equipment also up. The September gain suggests about six percent annual inflation.
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Labor Department
Local Energy Aid Totals 745 Comanche County Recipients
Comanche County’s federally funded energy crisis program aided 745 people and families with 38,735.84 dollars in grants. Direct fuel payments reached 29 recipients while 716 received 50 dollar subsidies, with 35,800 paid to individuals and 2,935.84 to gas firms. The typical recipient was a white woman over 65 living alone on Social Security.
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Community Action Agency
Kent Crook
The
Great Plains Improvement Foundation, Inc
CAA
Crook
Air bag rule stalls as Oct. 14 veto deadline nears
The House Commerce Committee again cannot vote on making air bags mandatory in cars and other passive restraints. The Oct. 14 deadline to veto the Transportation Department proposal looms, with Waxman delaying the panel to block full-House action. Adams says the rule could save about 9,000 lives annually.
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House Commerce Committee
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Adams
Transportation
Brock Adams
Harley O. Staggers
D-W.va
Henry A. Waxman
D-Calif
Waxman
House
Senate
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