Congress Advances Carter Stimulus Plan Budget Acceptance
The Senate approved 72 20 a budget move allowing 17.2 billion for stimulus with rebates and tax cuts. The House prepares a parallel 17.3 billion version. neither becomes law, but both set fiscal 1977 room for Carter's 31 billion two year plan while debating rebates versus permanent tax cuts.
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Mardi Gras ends as New Orleans clears streets after carnival
On Ash Wednesday police march down Bourbon Street ending two weeks of revelry. Officials report 900 arrests mainly for minor charges as crowds disperse and churches prepare for pre Easter fasting.
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Carter optimistic after Vance Middle East briefing
President Carter said this could be a good year for a lasting Arab Israeli peace after a briefing by Secretary Vance on his Middle East trip. Vance carried messages from regional leaders. Carter noted unity on progress and stressed decisions lie with Middle East peoples.
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Big labor vows forceful charge on labor law overhaul
AFL-CIO President George Meany launched a sweeping campaign to rewrite the National Labor Relations Act with an omnibus bill aimed at expanding union powers and curbing employer tactics. The push includes a one cent monthly union member tax to fund an $800,000 drive, a bigger board, faster rulings, and tougher penalties.
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Pentecostalists appeal to Carter to aid emigration from USSR
Nikolai Goretov heads a 520 member Pentecostal community seeking release from religious persecution in the Soviet Union. The group petitioned Leonid Brezhnev and top officials for permission to emigrate to the United States or Israel, hoping for a loan to cover moving costs for about 100 families.
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Hunt slips from prison amid foliage of rumor and mystery
At Eglin Air Force Base Florida UPI reports parolee E Howard Hunt left federal minimum security prison before dawn after 32 months serving for the 1972 Watergate break in. A laundry truck was seen, and officials say he may have left by private car. Hunt planned a New York art exhibit, a writing career with 40 novels, and a lecture tour while authorities investigate his flight. In Sacramento California health officials warn of a penicillin resistant gonorrhea strain potentially reaching 2000 cases this year, with spectinomycin treatment costlier and risk of resistance spreading.
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Nuclear plants ordered to be armed fortresses
The government will require all nuclear plants to become fortified with stronger guards surveillance and barriers. NRC chief Benard Rusche says plants must prepare to repel saboteurs with inside help within 90 days and full security upgrades in 18 months at costs up to 2.5 million per plant annually up to four times current security spending.
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Growers dispute USDA orange crop estimate after freeze
Florida citrus interests challenge a 3 percent rise forecast for this year’s orange crop, arguing lower juice yields and heavy losses after January cold spell. Donald Farmer of Florida Citrus Mutual says the USDA report was preliminary and the juice yield per box was much lower.
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