Senate ethics code debate spotlights outside income limits
Senators push a code drafted by a bipartisan panel to require annual disclosure of finances and curb outside earnings. The plan would cap outside income at 15 percent of a $57 500 salary, about $8 625 a year, affecting speech and writing income for leaders like Edmund Muskie. Debate resumes today with a Friday vote likely, as Byrd backs the measure to balance a recent pay raise.
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Washington
UPI
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Senate
Robert Byrd
Byrd
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
House
VA hospital death trial opens in Detroit
Jury selection completed for the trial of Filpina Narciso and Leonora Perez two nurses accused of poisoning nine patients at the Ann Arbor VA hospital with Pavulon during July and August 1975. Prosecutors begin opening arguments as motive remains unproven.
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Detroit
UPI
Veterans Administration
Filpina Narciso
Leonora Perez
Ann Arbor VA
Survivors Tell of Canary Islands Panic in 747 Crash
Jim Naik, a Royal Cruise Lines official from Cupertino, survived a Pan Am 747 fire after a KLM jet struck the plane during takeoff in Las Palmas Canary Islands. More than 550 died in the collision and explosion. Naik’s wife Elsie was badly hurt. Naik saved her briefly before they were separated.
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Madrid
Spain
UPI
Jim Naik
Canary Islands
KLM
Naik
Cupertino
Calif
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Elsie
Royal Cruise Lines
San Francisco
Casablanca
Sicily
Athens
Las Palmas
Los Angeles Times
World's major air disasters listed in chronology
United Press International compiles a roll of the world's major air disasters prior to the Tenerife collision. Entries include the Turkish DC10 crash near Paris killing 346 in March 1974 and multiple 1971 1972 1973 1975 1976 disasters with nations and aircraft types, noting fatal totals.
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United Press International
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Spain
Ermenoville
Paris
Worm cake recipe wins in Northern Idaho contest
Irene Stockman of Wisconsin won first place in a worm cake contest in Twin Falls Idaho sponsored by Northern Bait and Ecology Farms. Five media judges sampled 11 entries and awarded prizes including warm T shirts. Second place went to Mrs. A M Beck of Jerome Idaho.
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Twin Falls
Idaho
UPI
Irene Stockman
Trego
Wis
Northern
Bait and Ecology Farms
Magic Valley News Media
Brown accuses Congress of meddling in defense matters
Gen. George S. Brown chairing the Joint Chiefs of Staff supposedly told 300 officers at Fort McNair on May 21 1976 that Congress meddles in defense and urged secrecy. The Sun Times attributed the remarks to a syndicated analyst noting congressional action on Turkey and Angola.
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Chicago
UPI
George S. Brown
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Congress
Chicago Sun- Times
Rowan Lurie
Brown
Lurie
Turkey
Angola
Fort McNair
Washington, D.C
Joseph Churba
Air Force
The
Sun-Times
Man Arrested in PG&E Deaths Near Sacramento
Kenneth L. Partin, 23, of Citrus Heights, faces charges in the March 2 killings of PG&E workers William Harrington and Carla Burkart in Auburn area. He is jailed without bail as detectives and the district attorney plan charges. police suspect more than one suspect was involved.
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Auburn
UPI
Citrus Heights
Pacific Gas and Electric Co
Placer County
Daniel J. Higgins
Kenneth L. Partin
Partin
William Harrington
Carla Burkart
Pg&e
Sacramento
Donald Nunes
United States Sees Record February Trade Deficit
The Commerce Department reports February 1977 record deficit as imports at 11.67 billion exceed exports at 9.8 billion. Deficit follows January’s 1.67 billion and marks three straight months with imports above 11 billion. Petroleum products and food, transportation gear, sugar, watches, meat, and fish drove gains.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Commerce Department
U.S
Rocky Mountains
High Court to rule on Nixon Watergate tapes being public
The Supreme Court will decide if Nixon era Watergate tapes may be publicly distributed. Justices hear fall or winter arguments on the president’s objections to publicity of recordings used in the 1974 trial. Mass marketing plans proceed per a Washington appeals court ruling despite Sirica’s earlier stay.
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U.S
John Sirica
Watergate
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