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Newspaper
Lincoln Journal
Location
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1977
Page
3
Common Cause measured 591 meetings from March 12 to June 12 and found 232 entirely closed and 143 partially closed. The Federal Reserve Board led closures with 30 of 37 meetings closed, using financial information as the main exemption, with concerns over a furniture design and renovation project.
The House Interior Committee reaches a compromise to dissolve the joint subcommittee on coal slurry and begin markup of the pipeline bill, but formal approval is postponed until January. Staff counsel Stanley Scoville notes the bill will not be reported out before reconvening after adjournment next month.
The President's Council on Environmental Quality urged a deadline to prove safe disposal of nuclear wastes or halt nuclear power expansion. It also pushed a national policy shift from nuclear and fossil fuels to solar energy, announced by council member Gus Speth at an American Law Institute and American Bar Association conference.
Lockheed Aircraft Corp says it no longer requires the 250 million dollar federal loan guarantee. Bank creditors are confident Lockheed will not default. The move follows a stockholders meeting amid past bribery scandals and strong government scrutiny.
The Commerce Dept announces the leading indicators index rose 0.8 percent in August after July’s 0.2 percent gain and June and May declines. The upturn follows prior signals of sluggish economy. In political notes, President Carter warns Republicans of defending the canal should the Senate reject the Panama Canal treaties while Attorney General Griffin Bell testifies the treaties do not require House ratification.
President Carter says Republicans in Congress cooperate better with him on defense and international issues than Democrats, following a setback as the House Appropriations Committee rejects halting the B1 bomber project. The NIH reports a potential vaccine step for bacterial meningitis. The House approves broad witness immunity for JFK and MLK assassination investigations.
Japan agrees to give $6 million and nine prisoners to free 146 hostages on a hijacked Japan Airlines jet at Dacca airport. The hijackers seek an extension of their deadline. Five hostages released include two Americans, an Indian couple and their infant. The freed Americans include the wife of former California Assemblyman Walter Karabian and a man named Krueger who was ill.
The New York appeals court lifts a ban on the Concorde at Kennedy Airport but delays landings as the ruling will be appealed within 21 days. The court requires conformity to federal noise standards while allowing the Port Authority to set new ones, keeping the long legal fight alive.
U S intelligence agents recorded Panamanian conversations in 1975 76 and some transcripts were sold by an Army sergeant to Panama. Defense officials say the recordings did not influence the Panama Canal negotiations and note Omar Torrijos was among those recorded. A Senate subcommittee probes possible impact and questions a former sergeant linked to the sale but not the implicated soldier.
An AP report cites Goldfarb Consultants survey of 1,924 Canadians showing over one million Quebeckers might leave the province if it secedes. Up to 750,000 residents elsewhere could relocate. The Quebec sovereignty push led by Parti Quebecois and Premier Rene Levesque seeks a referendum.
The House voted 297 to 109 to proceed with research on developing a neutron weapon that would kill people but spare structures. The vote defeated an amendment to ban such work in a bill funding energy research for FY 1978 starting October 1.
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