US talks with PLO inch toward peace conference
US officials traveling with Secretary of State Vance confirm indirect contact with the PLO on removing roadblocks to a Mideast peace conference. They cite possible modifications to UN Security Council Resolution 242 and note no firm move toward recognizing Israel. Vance's tour includes Beirut and Amman as Washington weighs resuming Geneva talks amid Israeli skepticism.
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Taif
Saudi Arabia
U.S
Palestine Liberation Organiztion
PLO
Middle East
Cyrus R. Vance
United States
U.N. Security Council
Geneva
Israel
Yasir Arafat
Vance
United Nations
Carter
Beirut
Lebanon
Jerusalem
Jordan
Syria
Egypt
Soviet Union
Amman
Hafez Assad
Hussein
Menahem Begin
West Bank
Jordan River
Astronomy Reading Help Leads to Final Question
A college astronomy professor urged first semester students to read outside the course for insight and reward. The hint paid off when a 25 point final exam question asked students to describe the location of the astronomy section in the campus library.
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K&m
Carter to sign clean air and public works bills today
President Carter plans final approval of a clean-air measure and a 10 billion public works bill including nine of 18 water projects he initially opposed. The package delays tougher auto exhaust rules, covers 500 water projects, and extends deadlines for pollution standards while addressing neutron weapons and plutonium concerns. Carter's Plains trip pauses while he reviews safety and financial costs of 30 projects.
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Plains, Ga
Carter
White House
Jody Powell
Plains Baptist Church
New Maranatha Baptist Church
Congress
Applegate Lake
Ore
Atchafalaya River
Cache Basin
Ark
Columbia Dam
Tenn
Hillsdale Lake
Kan
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
South Carolina
Tallahala Creek
Miss
Auburn
Calif
Bayou Bodean
Clinch River
Detroit
Makarios Buried After Cyprus Funeral Procession
Archbishop Makarios, Cyprus leader, was buried in a mountain tomb after a streetside procession through Nicosia. Tens of thousands attended, with 200 dignitaries from 50 countries present for the open service and later broadcast islandwide.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Makarios
St. John’s Cathedral
Church of the Evangelists
Makarios Zei
National Assembly
Spiros Kyprianou
Mrs. Della Scott Dies at 69 in Mexico Missouri
Mrs. Della C. Scott 69 of 1909 5S Coal died Sunday at Ellis Fischel State Cancer Hospital in Columbia after treatment. Services Tuesday at 2 pm at First Christian Church with Rev. George B. Wraith officiating. Burial in East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Survived by son Allen Scott, sister Minnie Ingebritson, brother Stanley Carter. Memorials to First Christian Church or Ellis Fischel Research Endowment Fund.
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Della C. Scott
Coal
Ellis Fischer State Cancer Hospital
Columbia
Pam
First Christian Church
George B. Wraith
East Lawn Memorial Park
Santa Fe
del M
Nellie Jane Ward Carter
Rifle Shot Kills Albert L. Stuart Jr. in Wellsville
Montgomery County sheriff awaits autopsy results as coroner’s jury prepares to rule death by own action. Albert Lloyd Stuart Jr. 39 found with a .22 rifle wound to the chest in his Wellsville home Saturday evening. paraffin test and autopsy due today to determine if he fired the weapon. He was found by Virginia Vance, and funeral services set for Tuesday at Myers Funeral Home with burial in Wellsville Cemetery. He was survived by his father, two daughters, two sons, one granddaughter, four sisters, and four brothers.
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Wellsville
Montgomery County
Sheriff's Department
Albert Lloyd Stuart Jr
Alexander Gardner
John Whyte
Stuart
Virginia Vance
Whyte
Albert L. Stuart
Myers Funeral Home
Delbert Admire
Mexico
John Delmar
Lottie Gardner Stuart
Alma M. Claussen
Rhoda Delozier
Gibson, la
Kimberlynn Stuart
Wellaville
David Allen Stuart
Gary Dale Stuart
John Delmar Stuart, Jr
Clinton, Ky
Elmer Lee Stuart
Gayle Stuart
Dorothy Bradshaw
Martha Nye
Leona Oliver
Ione Haislip
Industrial Park Roads and Sewers Get ORC Grant
Mexico City plans fall start on extending roads and sewer lines to the southwest Industrial Park after Ozarks Regional Commission approves a 72758 grant. City will fund 12000, Mexico Industrial Park Inc. adds 6190, total cost about 90948. R. W. Booker and Associates hired for engineering. Gov Teasdale backed the request. Pat Danner approved the grant.
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Mexico City
Gary Bide
Ozarks Regional Commission
Bide
R. W. Booker
Mexico Industrial Park, Inc
Joseph Teasdale
Missouri
Ozarks Commission
Mexico
Pat Danner
Federal Cochairman
ORC
Appeals Court Sets Hearing On Games
The Missouri Court of Appeals ordered Judge James Riley to refrain from action on a suit by more than 20 grocery stores seeking to block enforcement of liquor rules. A hearing before the full court is set for Sept. 26 to decide if bingo-type promotions violate liquor regulations.
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Jefferson City
State Division of Liquor Control
Missouri Court of Appeals
Kansas City
Cole County
James Riley
Ben Swofford
Riley
Swofford
Albert Letz
Letz
Oil crisis warning from Rostow sparks energy plan talk
Former presidential adviser Walter Rostow told the Midwestern Governors Conference that oil demand will outstrip supply in the 1980s, risking higher prices and a global recession. He urged an immediate, worldwide energy program, warning U.S. imports may reach 15 million barrels daily without changes. Governors pressed Carter on production and criticized focus on conservation.
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AFTON
Okla
Walter W. Rostow
Kennedy
Johnson
Midwestern Governors Conference
Carter
Rostow
University of Texas
United States
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
David Boren
Kansas
Robert Bennett
Julian Carroll
Kentucky
Bennett
House
Senate
Boren
Tax Relief Seen In Lower Brackets
Washington AP Carter’s welfare reform plan expands the earned income tax credit to aid workers with modest incomes and aims to boost relief for middle class families. The proposal keeps a 10 percent credit on the first 4,000 earned, then continues to rise at 5 percent to about 9,080 for a family of four, with gradual phaseout up to 15,600.
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Washington
Carter
America
Health, Education and Welfare
Joseph A. Califano Jr
Califano
Parking Lot Meters May Go
The Mexico city council plans to end parking meters on three city lots pending final readings and vote tonight. Also on the agenda is a first and second reading of a special tax against property formerly occupied by Vandiver Furniture and owned by the Williams families to fund cleanup costs from a May fire totaling 9,639.74 dollars. A resolution will consider Hardys Inc. bid for box culvert work on Town Branch at 166,791.96 dollars as part of the 1977 78 Community Development Program across Eastholm, Jeffries and MacFarlane Streets.
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Dan Erdel
Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Vandiver Furniture
James H
Dorothy I. Williams
J.D
Elizabeth Williams
Hardys Inc
Shelbyville
Town Branch
Hardys
Boulevard
Eastholm
Jeffries
MacFarlane
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Neptune
Neptune and
Orange
Gary Jackson
Perry St
Gary
Cowboy
Ledger
Laura White
Kykko Monastery
Troodos
Mediterranean
Britain
Della Scott
Hannibal
Lewis A. Scott
A. L. Stuart Jr
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