iGas Tax Increase Faces Opposition in Congress
Washington AP reports a House Ways and Means Committee approved a bill to raise the federal gasoline tax by up to 23 cents over several years, with a 19 to 16 vote. The plan includes a flexible quota, new duties on imports, and tax incentives for energy efficiency, aiming to cut overseas oil share by 1985 and imposing refunds if conservation targets aren’t met.
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Washington
Congress
House
Ways and Means
1 Rules
Ford
U.S
Brown Signs California's New Sex Bill
California Governor Edmund Brown Jr signs a bill legalizing private sex acts between consenting adults of any orientation. The law, effective Jan 1, repeals centuries of sex statutes, retains restrictions on public solicitation and acts involving minors, and notably maintains felonies for oral sex within homes.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
Edmund Brown Jr
Brown
Miss McIntosh Elected SGA Secretary at Stephens
Miss Carol McIntosh daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert E McIntosh of 704 East Jackson a Stephens College sophomore Columbia has been elected secretary of the Student Government Association for the 1975 76 school year The new SGA aims to eliminate apathy and build communication between students and the SGA
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Carol
Charley) ‘ McIntosh
Robert E. McIntosh
East Jackson
Stephens College
Columbia
Student Government Association
SGA
MPL to List Fuel Cost Item On Monthly Bills
Missouri Power and Light Co will itemize fuel cost adjustment on all monthly electric bills effective immediately. The adjustment, authorized by the Missouri Public Service Commission since April 1974, covers changes in fuel costs for fossil and hydro generation and is adjusted monthly.
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Missouri Power and Light Co
MPL
John E. Lilleston
Missouri Public Service Commission
Kissinger Visits Jefferson City Draws Small Crowd
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrived in Jefferson City with his wife Nancy to a tepid welcome of about 50 spectators. Gov. Christopher Bond greeted them at the airport after a breakfast at the governor’s mansion, with Kissinger promising continued strong U.S. foreign policy.
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Jefferson City
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Nancy
Christopher S. Bond
Governor’s Mansion
Kansas City
Missouri
Carolyn Bond
Capitol
United States
Capitol Lawn
Airport
Kissinger May Resume Middle East Diplomacy
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said he may resume step by step diplomacy in the Middle East after Ford confers with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin. A decision on Interim settlement or Geneva conference will follow those talks. He said the aim is to prevent stagnation as positions may be revised.
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ST. Louis
Henry A. Kissinger
Middle East
Geneva
Ford
Anwar Sadat
Itzhak Rabin
Kissinger
Sinai
Egypt
Israel
U.S
NO KINDNESS casualty at Human Kindness Day stabbing
Steven Laine, 46, public affairs director for Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, was attacked near the Washington Monument as 125,000 gathered for Human Kindness Day. He was stabbed in the right eye and doctors say he will lose the eye. Iris Laine, his wife, at George Washington University Hospital in Washington D C. The incident was captured by AP Wirephoto.
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Steven Laine
Earl Butz
Iris
George Washington University Hospital
Washington, D.C
Laine
Washington Monument
Mills Doubtful On 1976 Race
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, back in the House after alcoholism treatment, says he is inclined not to seek re election in 1976. The Arkansas Democrat, in a TV interview, notes he leaned against running last time and may change his mind. He cites past episodes as periods when he was not himself and assures they won’t occur while he remains sober.
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Washington
Wilbur D. Mills
Arkansas Democrat
National Public Affairs Center For Television
Mills
Tidal Basin
Boston
Fanne Fox
Third Miner’s Body Recovered in Utah Mine Disaster
Rescue workers recovered the third miner’s body in a double cave in at Peabody Coal Co.’s Deer Creek Mine near Huntington Utah. The victims were Russ Larsen 25 Al fred Willis 28 and Roger Luke 19. Two other miners were hospitalized after being pulled from the mine. A sheriff’s spokesman said three carloads of relief workers were brought to the mine.
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Huntington
Utah
Peabody Coal Co
Deer Creek
Russ Larsen
Alfred Willis
Carbonville
Roger Luke
Orangeville
Shah Expected To Sign With PanAm
The Shah of Iran is set to sign a 300 million dollar agreement with Pan American World Airways to revive Pan Am financially. Iran would gain about 13 percent of Pan Am stock but no control of management. The deal requires Civil Aeronautics Board approval and follows Pan Am losses and a failed federal aid request.
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New York
Civil Aeronautics Board
Pan Am
Congress
Russian Spy System Shifts Its Tactics
Western intelligence reports say the KGB is changing its approach by relying less on diplomats and expanding use of illegals and Western turncoats. Ports with lax controls aid covert entries, while analysts fear renewed Soviet penetration of U.S. defense and security agencies.
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London
KGB
Europe
Britain
Halifax
England
Ayr
Scotland
Barry
Wales
Communist Party
Moscow
Institute For the Study of Conflict
U.S
United States
U.S. Defense Department
State Department
National Security Council
CIA
FBI
Spivak Leaves Meet the Press After 28 Years on NBC
Lawrence E. Spivak, longtime creator and moderator of Meet the Press, will retire from the NBC program after 28 years and 3 days since its first telecast. Bill Monroe will replace him as producer and panelist, with Douglas Riker succeeding Monroe on Today. Spivak started the show in 1945 on Mutual and its TV debut was November 6, 1947.
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Spivak
NEW York
Lawrence E. Spivak
Meet the Press
NBC
Washington, D.C
Bill Monroe
Washington
Monroe
Douglas Riker
Capitol Hill
United Brands Names New President Amid Turmoil
United Brands Co. named Wallace W. Booth as president and chief executive and Max M. Fisher as acting chairman. The moves come after the death of former chairman Eli M. Black and amid a bribery probe linked to Honduran officials who allegedly accepted payoffs to reduce banana export taxes.
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New York
United Brands Co
Wallace W. Booth
Rockwell International Corp
Max M. Fisher
Detroit
Fisher
United Brands
Eli M. Black
Midtown Manhattan
Fifi
Honduras
Black
Jorge Arturo Reina
National University
United States
Switzerland
Reina
Serapio Hernandez Castellanos
Oswaldo Lopez Arellano
Abraham Bennaton Ramos
Gen. Lopez Arellano
United Brands Company
More File Bankruptcies Set Record in March
New York AP reports March filings by individuals and businesses rose to record levels, reflecting ongoing inflation and recession strain. Fiscal 1975 filings up 35 percent from the prior year, with year end June 30 possibly a record.
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New York
Pat Van Horn Wins $500 Scholarship
Patrick Van Horn son of Mr and Mrs Bert Van Horn of Mexico is one of two Westminster College Fulton students awarded 500 scholarships from Southwestern Bell Telephone Co in honor of outstanding college performance. Van Horn ranks high in the junior class and is active in campus drama and activities.
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Patrick van Horn
Bert van Horn
Mexico
Westminster College
Fulton
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
van Horn
Miss Weber Initiated Into Honor Sorority
Judy L. Weber daughter of Mr and Mrs R W Weber 10 Venus was among 18 Central Missouri State University freshman coeds initiated into Alpha Lambda Delta on Warrensburg campus The dean of women notes the society promotes intelligent living high learning standards and superior scholastic attainment Miss Weber is a social studies major.
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Judy L. Weber
R. W. Weber
Venus
Central Missouri State University
Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society
Warrensburg
Miss Weber
Memorial Honors One Of Last To Die
Marshalltown AP report recalls Lance Cpl. Darwin Judge a recent graduate honored in a school gym memorial as one of the final Marines killed in Vietnam. Parents Henry and Ida Judge await their son's homecoming while noting his death at Tan Son Nhut Airport on April 28 with Cpl. Charles McMahon Jr. of Woburn Massachusetts.
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Marshalltown
Town
Lance Cpl
Darwin Judge
Marshalltown High School
Vietnam
Henry
Ida Judge
Judge
Charles McMahon Jr
Woburn
Mass
Saigon
Tan Son Nhut
South Vietnam
Isabel Peron To Get $13 Million Jet
President Isabel Peron signed a decree approving financing for a new presidential jet costing about 13.2 million dollars. The plane will be brought into Argentina by a special crew within days, per the decree published in the Official Gazette.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Isabel Peron
Amtrak Leader Faces Tough Tracks Ahead
Philadelphia AP report profiles Paul Reistrup, Amtrak president, in his first months steering the rail system. He cites bad track, old cars, vandalism, and uneven demand as hurdles while urging Congress to fund track rebuilding and delaying a fare increase to avoid losing riders.
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Philadelphia
30Th Street
Washington
Paul Reistrup
Amtrak
Reistrup
New York
Baltimore & Ohio
Illinois
Houston Law Network Dispute Spurs Police Exit
Houston police dropped its membership in the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit after officials argued the network pushed spying on ordinary citizens. LEIU chairman Ray Henry said Houston was terminated. Chief Carrol Lynn cited gag rules tied to a $55 million civil rights lawsuit in limiting comments.
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Houston, Tex
Houston
Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit
Long Beach
Calif
LEIU
B. G. Bond
Houston Criminal Intelligence Division
Associated Press
LETU
California
Ray Henry
United States
Canada
Henry
SEIU
Carrol Lynn
American Civil Liberties Union
Lynn
New Yorkers Seek Federal Money
New York Mayor Abraham Beame and Governor Hugh Carey head to Washington to urge a $1.5 billion aid package. They object to a White House claim that Treasury Secretary Simon turned down special aid and say the meeting with President Ford should have a purpose.
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New York
Abraham Beame
Washington
Hugh Carey
White House
Albany
Ford
Ron Nessen
Treasury
William E. Simon
New York City
French First Lady Visits New York for Ravel Festival
Mme Valery Giscard d Estaing arrived in New York to open a music festival honoring Maurice Ravel. She is accompanied to the Wednesday night New York State Theater performance by Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger and Mrs Nelson A Rockefeller and by the French entourage.
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New York
Mme
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Maurice Ravel
France
New York State Theater
Henry A. Kissinger
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Miss Schlatt Wins Nursing Scholarship
The Mexico Rotary Club awarded Miss Debra Schlatt a $1,000 nursing scholarship for training at Burge School of Nursing in Springfield. She will start in the fall as a registered nurse and must return to Audrain Medical Center for one year at full pay.
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The
Mexico
AMC
Miss Schlatt
Raphael Schlatt
Bougainville
Missouri crops advance as warm week aids planting
Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service notes three good field days last week boosting corn planting to 41 percent statewide and 87 percent in the Bootheel, cotton up 31 points to just over half, soybeans at 7 percent. Eastern soil moisture rose from sporadic showers while wheat and pastures stay fair to good.
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Columbia
Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Bootheel
Riot Police End Occupation at United Aircraft Plant
In Montreal the Riot Police charged into the United Aircraft plant and freed 10 hostages from a building occupation. Fifty striking workers were arrested as clashes with clubs and tear gas sent injured men to police vans. The unrest began late Monday night when about 2,000 Quebec Federation of Labor members protested near Longueuil across the St Louis River.
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Montreal
United Aircraft
Quebec
Longueuil
St. Lawrence
Quebec Federation of Labor
Detroit Court Orders Seniority Over Hiring in Layoffs
A U S District Court ruling bars layoffs of newly hired black and women officers funded by a federal program while mandating seniority-based layoffs for city-funded officers. The decision sparked clashes as about 1,000 police protesters urged seniority enforcement amid Detroit's $23 million budget gap and 825 potential layoffs.
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Detroit
U.S. District Court
Ralph Freeman
William Green
Philip Tannian
Coleman Young
Young
Freeman
Britain Recognizes New Viet Regime
LONDON AP Britain has recognized the new government of South Vietnam. The Foreign Office said formal recognition was conveyed Monday night in a telegram from Foreign Secretary James Callaghan to Saigon. Callaghan said Britain hopes to reopen its embassy in Saigon soon. Ambassador John Bushell is in London for consultations and Rex Hunt will act as charge d'affaires. Hunt is in Singapore with evacuated staff from Saigon. Britain had recognized Cambodia's new government on May 2, with no decision yet on Phnom Penh mission.
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London
Britain
South Vietnam
Foreign Office
James Callaghan
Saigon
Callaghan
John Bushell
Rex Hunt
Hunt
Singapore
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Betty Ford receives Sliver Humanitarian Award in Philadelphia
First Lady Betty Ford is honored by the Philadelphia Association for Retarded Citizens for volunteer work aiding handicapped, crippled and mentally retarded persons. The group awarded her the Sliver Humanitarian Award at its 25th annual dinner.
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Philadelphia
Betty Ford
Philadelphia Association For Retarded Citizens
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