Carter Restores Funds for 13 Water Projects
President Carter funds 13 of 30 water and dam projects while holding firm on 17. Congress may restore money, and projects like the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway and Central Arizona Project are retained while Georgia’s Richard B. Russell Dam is dropped. Carter promises strict future criteria for project approvals.
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Carter
Washington
Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway
Central Arizona
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Tennessee River
Gulf of Mexico
Mobile
Ala
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Arizona
Colorado
Desert
Spain sets June 15 for first free Parliament elections
Spain schedules June 15 as the first free parliamentary vote in 41 years with Adolfo Suarez announcing that all Spaniards over 21 may vote for 350 deputies and 207 senators. The two house body replaces Franco era unicameral system granting 80 percent of seats by appointment.
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Madrid
Spain
Adolfo Suarez
Francisco Franco
Russian sea captain arraigned over fishing limit breach
Aleksandr Gopalov, captain of the Taras Shevchenko, was arraigned in Boston on charges for catching more than the 200 mile US quota off Nantucket Island. The trawler was seized by the Coast Guard and civil penalties filed. possible penalties include one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
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Boston
United States
Aleksandr Gopalov
Gopalov
Uie Lape
Seti
Gupalov
Taras Shevchenko
Coast Guard
Natucket Island
Convict Marries Witness Before Oklahoma Execution
In Newkirk Oklahoma Richard Lawrence Hager wed Connie Sue Vaughn the state's chief witness against him ten minutes before his death sentence for the execution style slaying of Anthony Corley 19. Judge Lowell Doggett set June 27 for the electrocution pending appeal. Vaughn pregnant testified Hager said I had to shoot him several times.
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Newkirk
Okla
Richard Lawrence Hager
Connie Sue Vaughn
Lowell Doggett
Doggett
Hager
State Court of Criminal Appeals
Oklahoma
Anthony Corley
Miss Vaughn
Corley
Auto chiefs set near million dollar pay in 1976
General Motors chairman Thomas A. Murphy earned about $955,000 after bonuses and increases, while Ford Motor Co. chairman Henry Ford II and president Lee Iacocca were raised to a record $970,000. The proxy disclosures came ahead of annual meetings as GM and Ford posted large 1976 profits.
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Detroit
U.S
General Motors Corp
Thomas A. Murphy
Ford Motor Co
Henry Ford II
Lee Iacocca
Ford
Fighting flares in Zaire again
Renewed fighting in Shaba province leaves about thirty Zairean troops wounded with some airlifted to Kolwezi. The Congo National Liberation Front claims French soldiers were killed near Kolwezi, a claim Paris denies. Troop reinforcements and clashes extend 25 to 250 miles around Kolwezi as Tass calls the war a popular uprising. China and the Soviet Union trade accusations over involvement in Africa.
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Kinshasa
Zaire
Shaba
Kolwezi
Congo National Liberation Front
Paris
France
Kanzenze
Liberation Front
Lupafa
Tass
Journal = Di Angola
Clemenceau
Angola
Defense Ministry
Djibouti
Red Sea
Afars
Issas
Toulon
Lunda
Katanga
Kalanga
Belgian Congo
China
Soviet Union
Hsinhua
Cincinnati School Strike Seeks injunction over teachers walkout
A Cincinnati school district seeks a temporary injunction against the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers as walkout continues into Tuesday. Judge Gusweiler declined to hear the suit Friday due to a busy docket. The district asks for a ruling that the strike is illegal and for daily damages of 40000 while CFT pledges to ignore any back to work order. Noncompliant teachers face loss of fringe benefits including medical insurance starting May 4.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Federation of Teachers
CFT
Hamilton County Common Pleas Court
Frank Gusweiler
Roger Stephens
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Dekla
Congress
Oklahoma City
Freddie Cravens
Osage County
H.R. Weyl
Cravens
University Hospital
FMC
Huntington
W. Va
FMC Corp
Kanawha River
South Charleston
Marshall Jarrett
Columbus, Ohio
William J. Brown
Brown
Iywu
Lawrence Cohen
Auto
Africa
Izvestia
NATO
Packer
STRIA
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