Fiscal year 1978 begins with new appropriations
Washington AP reports the 1978 fiscal year starts this Friday with federal agencies using new appropriations totaling about 458.25 billion dollars and a 61.25 billion deficit. Congress may reopen and adjust the budget if Social Security taxes rise and debates linger over Labor Health Education and Welfare and foreign aid bills. Rep. Giaimo calls Oct 1 start a major improvement, noting most bills are on time except two tied to abortion and human rights provisions.
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Washington
Congress
Departments of Labor and Health
Education and Welfare
Labor
Robert N. Giaimo
D-Conn
House Budget Committee
Gas Price Deadlock Endangers Debt Bill
Senate leaders struggle as a natural gas price stalemate drags on for two weeks. Senate Republican Howard Baker said the chance of ending the filibuster is no more than 50 50 while Democratic Leader Robert Byrd presses for a compromise amid tense talks.
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Washington
Senate
Howard Baker
Robert Byrd
Sen
James Abourezk
D-S
Baker
Abourezk
Russell Long
D-La
Byrd
Long
Missing New York diamond broker linked to slaying probe
The July disappearance of Abraham Shafizadeh, a 31 year old New York diamond broker, is being investigated amid links police mention to organized crime and a stash of diamonds valued at 250000 to 300000 dollars as relatives fear foul play. The case intersects with a wider debt ceiling stalemate in the U S Senate.
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News Wires
New York
Pinchas Jaroslawicz
Abraham Shafizadeh
Puerto Rico
Farokh Shafizadeh-Hakimi
Shafizadeh
Manhattan
South Korea to discuss interview plan with Park inquiry team
Justice Department to send two investigators to Seoul to negotiate the place time and conditions for questioning Tongun Park over alleged payoffs on Capitol Hill. Officials say it is a negotiation trip not guaranteed to yield an interview and note no extradition treaty exists.
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Washington
Justice Dept
South Korea
Seoul
Tongun Park
Capitol Hill
Park
U.S
Justice
Robert Stevenson
Benjamin Civiletti
Paul Michel
Griffin Bell
United States
William Hundley
House Ethics Committee
Jaworski
Ethics Committee
Media bar sought to muzzle press in Williams murder case
A defense motion asks District Judge William Hastings to bar news reporters from a Williams murder case competency hearing, while Lincoln media plan to oppose. The 1975 Simants ruling cited shows press access to court proceedings and the danger of pretrial publicity.
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Robert E. Williams
Lincoln News Media
Alan Peterson
David Britain
Peterson
Tom Hagel
Richard Goos
Williams
William Hastings
Hastings
Erwin Charles Simants
Nebraska News
Hugh Stuart
North Platte
U.S. Supreme Court
Stuart
Lincoln Journal and Star looks at city issues and history
The piece surveys Lincoln topics from protectionist critiques of steel to air law costs on electricity users and notes on leukemia therapies and cancer research. It references Lincoln telephone history from 1904 to 1912, agricultural programs funding, and a reader poll on local government in the Sunday Journal and Star.
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Lincoln
Sunday Journal and Star
Richard Paxson
Nebraska
Dominick Costello
The
Lincoln Banks Move Away From Free Checking
Economists blame cost of processing checks as banks in Lincoln discontinue free checking. NBC will charge $1 a month and 10 cents a check for low balance accounts. First National Bank threads a $3 monthly fee with optional $10,000 life insurance. Havelock Bank first to end free checks four years after offering them.
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Kuhn
National Bank of Commerce
Lincoln
Ross Hecht
NBC
First National Bank
FNB
Don Dischner
Dischner
Alan Haugner
Martell State Bank
Haugner
Banks weigh free checking status in Lincoln area
Nebraska banks consider changes to free checking. Lincoln area banks report 75 percent of business from Lincoln customers, with several institutions moving to monthly balances charges or maintaining free services as market conditions shift. Citibank plans tiered monthly fees starting November statements.
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