Yazoo City Lottery For Carter Town Meeting Attendees
Yazoo City prepares for President Carter visit with a town meeting at the new high school gym and a drawing selecting 1,400 of 4,000 applicants to attend. Owen Cooper hosts the event as crews set up podiums and streets are prepped for back-to-back 12-hour workdays.
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Yazoo City
Miss
Mississippi Delta
Carter
Eudora Welty
U.S. 49
Jackson
Yazoo River
Delta
Yellow Dog
Confederate Navy
Vicksburg
Willie Morris
Southern
South
Yazoo
Morris
Owen Cooper
Mississippi Chemical Corp
Southern Baptist Convention
Sacco Vanzetti Debate Stirs After 50 Years in Boston
In Boston Gov. Dukakis marks the Sacco and Vanzetti anniversary with a memorial day proposal. A report by Daniel A. Taylor suggests possible miscarriage of justice but not innocence, citing unfair trials and foreigner bias. The recount notes longstanding debate and calls for reflection on the 1927 electrocution.
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Boston
Michael S. Dukakis
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Daniel A. Taylor
Dukakis
Charlestown State Prison
Taylor
South Braintree
Mass
Sacco
Vanzetti
Massachusetts
Associated Press
U.S. Supreme Court
Felix Frankfurter
Alvan. T. Fuller
Lateo
Nun faces church discipline over abortion funding stance
In Vermont, Sister Elizabeth Candon, head of the Human Services Agency, is warned by Bishop John Marshall for supporting government funds for abortions. He says her view is not approved and could place her outside church life. She remains silent, while earlier comments favored aiding low income women despite abortion opposition.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Human Services Agency
John Marshall
Elizabeth Candon
Bishop Marshall
Marshall
Vermont Catholic Tribune
Elizabeth
Foreign Interests Buying Farm Lands
Iowa officials report foreign owners hold millions of acres of U S farmland with 4.9 million acres owned and 62.8 million leased per Commerce Dept survey. Iowa data show 6 823 acres in alien control valued at about 4 3 million dollars, mainly West Germans. USDA disputes figures but flags future policy implications.
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Des Moines
Iowa
U.S
Robert Lounsberry
U.S. Commerce Department
U.S. Agriculture Department
USDA
Towa
Secretary of State
Iowa State University
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TV Guide
ST. Louis
St. Louis County
U.S. District Court
James Meredith
Triangle Publications
Seventeen Magazine
Molasky Family
Molasky Enterprises, Inc
Webster Thayer
Celestino Madeiros
Sandia Laboratories
Albuquerque, N. M
Rabbit
New York
Harvey
ASPCA
Madison Square Garden
Duncan Wright
New York Knickerbockers
Willis
Haggar
Jagmar
Hs&m
Levi's
Bell Bottoms
Big Bella
Boot
Levi’s
McGregor
Ye Price
Missouri
Mexico
Village Square
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