Senators seek finance chairman in California Senate
In Sacramento the Senate Rules Committee eyed a Finance Committee chair as Gov Brown pushes to avoid new taxes. Sen. Nicholas Petris led as a frontrunner, with Alfred Alquist and Albert Rodda in play amid organizing week plans. Jerome Smith won a Rules post, while Republicans named Campbell and Stull to their side. Mills and McCarthy kept their leadership posts.
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UPI
Senate Rules Committee
Finance Committee
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Nicholas Petris
Oakland
Rules Committee
Alfred Alquist
San Jose
Albert S. Rodda
Smith
George Zenovich
Fresno
Senate
James R. Mills
San Diego
Zenovich
Alquist
Sen. Petris
Sen
William Campbell
Hacienda Heights
John Stull
Escondido
Libyan Leader Seeks Soviet Aid in Moscow Talks
Col Muammar Khadafy held a second meeting with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow as part of his state visit seeking more aid. Attending were Nikolai Podgorny, Alexei Kosygin, and Andrei Gromyko. He urged Washington to adjust Middle East policy and offered to meet halfway with the Carter administration.
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UPI
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Leonid I. Brezhnev
Tass
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Alexei N. Kosygin
Andrei A. Gromyko
Khadary
Soviet Union
United States
Middle East
Khadafy
Kremlin
Carter
Washington
Henry Kissinger
Cyrus Vance
Vance
Kissinger
New York
Bitter cold grips wide region as storms slow eastward
A brutal cold snap and heavy snow hit a broad swath from the western plains to the eastern Great Lakes. Temperatures plunged to extreme lows including 45 below in Balkan Township Minnesota and 41 below in Thorhalt, with several Minnesota communities setting deep records. The storm disrupted travel with snowfalls up to five inches in parts of Pennsylvania and New York, and gusts near blizzard strength in South Dakota.
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Iowa
Chicago
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Great Lakes
Midwest
Balkan Township
Minn
North Pole
Minnesota
Thorhalt
Hibbing
International Falls
Duluth
South Bend
Ind
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
Maryland
Bismarck
N.D
South Dakota
Florida
Tampa International
Indiana
Carroll County Highway Department
Sauety
Flora
State DOT accused of misleading highway accounting
The California Department of Transportation faced sharp criticism from the legislative auditor general for misleading highway fund accounting. The audit found delays in tapping $110 million in federal funds and an estimated $2 million in foregone interest. It notes expenditures were reported 40 percent higher than the prior year’s budget, while actions to cut costs were taken.
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Imperial Savings
Keogh
Sacramento
UPS
Brown
Department of Transportation
Legislative
John Wis
William Leonard
State Highway Commission
Commission
Miki Signals Resignation as Japan Premier After Election Setback
Premier Takeo Miki told LDP leaders he is ready to resign and take responsibility for the party's worst postwar setback after Japan's general elections. He stated he would rebuild the party and do his utmost to lead the recovery.
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Miki
Tokyo
UPI
Takeo Miki
Liberal Democratic Party
LDP
Americans Hunger Strike for Mexican Prison Release
In Mexico City nearly 600 Americans in three prisons join a hunger strike backed by Canadians and Latin Americans. They demand faster parole changes from the new Lopez Portillo administration and ratification of a prisoner exchange deal with the United States, saying they will fast until action is taken.
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Mexico City
UPI
Luis Echeverria
Jose Lopez Portillo
Congress
United States
Mexico
Santa Maria, Oriente and
Norte
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