Ford Reagan clash over rules sets stage for GOP floor fight
Ford and Reagan backers contend they control key RNC forums as two rules panels debate delegate voting and proportional representation. A convention rules committee meeting Saturday could lead to a televised floor clash next Tuesday. Ford cites a 10 vote edge in the panel, Reagan supporters claim a slight majority among 104 panel members.
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Kansas City, Mo
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Republican National Committee
RNC
Convention Rules Committee
Reagan
Loren Smith
John Sears
Party
Sears
California
Richard Schweiker
Violence spreads in Belfast IRA campaign intensifies
The IRA and its supporters attacked Belfast targets with bombs and arson while engaging British troops in gunfights. Two guerrillas were wounded, and an IRA officer was killed by an army patrol, with a child killed in a car crash attributed to the pursuit. The toll in Northern Ireland reaches 1,585 dead over seven years as Dublin prepares anti-IRA measures and Britain weighs harsher penalties.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Ardoyne
Dublin
Dail
IRA
Columbus
Chicago
Steve Sexton Jr
Obetz
Roger L. Brown
Michael J. Smith
Baltimore
Ohio
Whitehall
Sexton
Brown
Smith
Swine flu insurance bill clears Congress
Congress passes a swine flu insurance program ending the stalemate for vaccine rollout. The House voted 250 to 83 and the Senate approved unanimously, with President Ford expected to sign. Shots to elderly first then nationwide by mid October. liability protections and government coverage to back vaccine producers.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Pennsylvania
Ford
U.S
Oakland Girl Missing Two Years Could Inherit Trust Money
Lisa Anne Beery, an Oakland high school student missing for two years, may gain $200 000 from a trust her great grandmother left. Authorities continue to investigate her disappearance as relatives await her return.
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Lisa Anne Beery
Oakland
Lisa
Florida city restricts Sunday use of courts and fields
Frostproof Florida officials restrict municipal tennis courts and ball fields during worship hours. The ban, challenged as a breach of church state separation, is described as informal policy from 5 a.m. to noon on Sundays and 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sundays and Wednesdays. Police can ask violators to leave. signs will warn residents.
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Fla
John Rayburn
John Woodby
Weather outlook mixed with showers and highs near 90
Tonight remains partly cloudy with a mid 60s low and a 20 percent chance of rain. Thursday stays cloudy with a 30 percent chance of afternoon showers or thundershowers and a high around 90. Yesterday’s high reached 86 and the overnight low was 60s.
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Harold Stassen
Kansas
Ann Landers
Heloise
Middletown
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