Carter Decision Due On B1 Bomber Funding Vote
Congress and President Carter face pivotal steps this week on the B1 bomber with a House vote to delete all production money from a 110.6 billion defense bill. If blocked, Carter will decide by week’s end whether to move the strategic bomber into production or scrap it.
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U.S
Carter
Joseph P. Addabbo
D-N.y
Addabbo
Senate
Bill D. Burlison
Dmo
CIA
House Rules Committee
Labor Department
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Senate Appropriations Committee
Weather forecast shows clouds showers and warm temps
Clouds will dominate tonight and into Tuesday with chances of showers and thundershowers. Lows near 60s to upper 60s with highs around mid 80s, and a 60 percent rain chance for the period. Weekend rainfall total 1.34 inches and extended outlook calls for daily showers through Friday with highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s.
Jail blaze kills 34 inmates and 8 visitors in Tennessee
A 16 year old inmate started a foam padded cell fire at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tennessee killing 34 inmates and eight visitors and injuring many others. Authorities say toxic fumes spread through ducts. a deputy sheriff fumbled keys delaying evacuations for about twelve minutes. The suspect Andy Zinmer faces an arson charge and adult trial request while missing records place him previously at Lad Lake Wisconsin.
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Columbia, Tenn
Maury County
Dist. Atty
Robert H. Gay
Andy Zinmer
Gay
Zinmer
Nashville
Waukesha
Wis
Superior
Ray Blanton
Tennessee
Blanton
Jerry Dickey
Dickey
Howard Blake
William Duke
Wayne
Lower courts overruled on Dayton busing plan
The Supreme Court ruled that lower courts overstepped in mandating Dayton Ohio school desegregation by forcing bus transport for about 18 000 students. It sent the case back for a new remedy and urged cautious action, without signaling a new constitutional standard.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Dayton
Ohio
High Court Keeps Dayton Desegregation Plan In Force
The Supreme Court in an 8 to 0 decision orders Dayton officials to maintain the current desegregation plan for another school year. The ruling lets lower courts craft a limited remedy while preserving a districtwide busing program for 18,000 students across 68 public schools. Justice Rehnquist writes that federal courts may require remedies for discriminatory effects once intent to discriminate is shown.
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Dayton
High Court
6Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
William H. Rehnquist
Ex Panther leader Newton held in Canada for deportation
Immigration officials held a deportation hearing for Newton 35 co founder of the Panthers after his Havana Toronto flight. The hearing was adjourned for documents related to a California homicide case. Newton seeks time to confer with lawyers and his wife Gwen accompanied him from Havana allowed entry to Canada.
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Canada
Newton
Toronto
The
Panthers
United States
Paul Copeland
California
U.S
Train Collision Kills 27 Near Frankfurt on the Oder
Berlin AP reports an express passenger train and a freight train collided near Lebus on the Polish border killing 27 people and injuring seven. Rescue teams searched wreckage hours after the 2 am crash as fire engulfs tank cars and railway cars telescope together. The passenger train ran from Zittau to Stralsund. cause unknown. Engine crew and freight conductor among the dead.
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Berlin
Frankfurt-on-the-Oder
ADN
Zittau
Stralsund
East Germany
Lebus
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