CBO says recession unlikely despite job dip
Washington AP reports that Alice Rivlin of the CBO told the House Budget Committee that the economy may grow slowly through 1979 but is unlikely to slip into recession. Inflation outlook worsens, tax cuts and limited rate hikes are seen as sustaining spending while unemployment could edge up to 5.2 6.0 percent by year end.
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Washington
U.S
Congressional Budget Office
Alice M. Rivlin
House Budget Committee
CBO
Rivlin
Worlds Sentenced to Three Years in Florida Spotlighted by Review
Mary Worlds 29, a black mother of two, began a three year term for aggravated battery after a 1977 conviction by an all white jury at Sunland Training Center. Gov Askew, AG Shevin, Parole Commission, and civil rights officials launched independent reviews. Worlds tearfully left her Marianna home for Lowell State Prison, pleading innocence as family and supporters urged reconsideration.
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Ocala, Fla
Mary Worlds
State Attorney General
Parole Commission
U.S Civil Rights Office
Lowell State Prison
Sunland Training Center
Marianna
Robert Shevin
Reubin
Atlanta
Mrs. Worlds
State Parole Commission
Annie Gibson
Mama
Weather and safety note combine in brief advisory
A clear cool night returns with mid 50s lows and 80s highs. The forecast calls for mostly sunny Wednesday with high mid 80s and a 54 degree overnight. From Thursday to Saturday showers or thundershowers are expected with highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s. A crime alert line 425 7700 is provided for reporting crimes or suspicious activity.
Shcharansky Trial Highlights Espionage Allegations In Russia
In Moscow a secret session heard claims that Anatoly Shcharansky supplied information to a Western journalist. In Kaluga the wife of dissident Alexander Ginzburg was ejected after shouting that the man on trial tells lies. The cases drew international protests and Vance planned Geneva talks with Soviet officials.
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Moscow
Anatoly Shcharansky
Kaluga
Alexander Ginzburg
Shcharansky
United States
Ginzburg
Cyrus R. Vance
Geneva
Gromykov
Magomet Pirbudagov
Los Angeles Times
Robert C. Toth
Toth
Washington
Pirbudagov
Vance in Geneva as dissident trials cloud talks on arms limit
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance flew to Geneva to push ahead with negotiations to curb nuclear weapons despite souring Soviet relations and distractions from trials of dissidents Anatoly Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg. He meets Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko while the Carter administration weighs protecting U S land based missiles amid broad disputes on missile limits and the Backfire bomber.
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Avital
Washington
Vance
Shcharansky
Geneva
Ministr
Andrei A
Cyrus K Vance
Soviet Union
Anatoly Shcharansky
Alexander Ginzburg
Shehransky
Andrei A Gromyko
Carter
U.S
Retired professor to resume Peace Corps duty in Africa
Elizabeth Elliot Mayo 76, a former mathematics and physics professor from Morehead Kentucky, leaves for a third Peace Corps tour in Africa. She previously taught in Kenya, joined in 1971, and now plans to work at a junior college in Ghana while using her funds to host family visits.
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Cincinnati
Elizabeth Elliot Mayo
Africa
Peace Corps
Morehead
Community Action Commission
Phone workers strike across Ohio Bell offices
Columbus Ohio AP long distance telephone workers from Local 4354 of the Communications Workers of America began a strike protesting company action against Nashville workers who refused to cross picket lines. Pickets formed at Ohio Bell offices while Toledo and Cleveland members vote and the strike spreads to 15 cities as workers oppose six day work weeks.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Bell
Nashville
Tenn
Long Lines
Local 4354
Communications Workers of America
Bud Cole
CWA
Cleveland
Toledo
Mortgage rates rise to record highs for conventional loans
The Federal Home Loan Bank Board said average effective conventional mortgage rates reached 9.46 percent last month, the highest since 1963. The prior peak was 9.37 percent, seen last May and in December 1974. Average new home price was 62,900 dollars and the average loan 46,100 dollars for a 28.3 year term.
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Washington
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
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