Carter to shake up Washington clash with Congress looming
AP writer Don McLeod reports Jimmy Carter arrives in Washington committed to reshaping government. He will challenge established congressional prerogatives, provoking potential White House and Democratic clashes as he pursues tax reform bureaucracy restructuring and propped up by Georgia-style tough bargaining.
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Don McLeod
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Georgia
White House
Pennsylvania Ave
Congress
Soviet scientist cites 1958 atomic waste explosion deaths
Exiled biochemist Zhores Medvedev says hundreds died and thousands suffered radiation sickness from a buried reactor waste explosion in the Ural Mountains in 1958. He also cites a fall 1960 moon rocket inspection mishap that killed dozens of Soviet space technologists near Khrushchev's UN visit.
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London
Ural Mountains
Zhores Medvedev
England
New
Scientist
Medvedev
Blagoveshensk
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
New York
United Nations General Assembly
PERSHING RIFLES PLEDGES STABBED IN HAZING DEATH
A 19 year old college junior Thomas Fitzgerald, a Pershing Rifles pledge at St. John’s University, was stabbed during a hazing training exercise on Indian Island near Long Island. James Savino, 21, a Stevens Institute cadet, faces second degree murder charges for the death.
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Lindenhurst
N.Y
Suffolk County
Thomas Fitzgerald
Pershing Rifles
Indian Island
Long Island
Here
Fitzgerald
St. John’s
James Savino
Bayside
Queens
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken
N.J
Noreen Reiser
Queens College
City University of New York
Carter's first presidential vacation stop at St Simons Island
Jimmy Carter arrives at St Simons Island Georgia aboard a large blue and silver Air Force plane marked with the presidential seal. He says this is the moment he has waited for and plans to meet with Ford and Mrs Ford before month end after a security briefing with George Bush.
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AIR Force Jet
Albany, GA
John Kennedy
Dallas
ST. Simon’s Island
Jimmy Carter
Air Force
United States
Air Force One
Ford
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
China
Rosalynn
Mrs. Ford
Central Intelligence
George Bush
Cold stretch forecast with possible flurries
The forecast warns of cold conditions today tonight and tomorrow with highs near 40 degrees and a low around 25. Monday could reach the 30s as snow flurries appear today. The outlook extends through Thursday with ongoing cold weather and little improvement.
Benjamin Hooks to head NAACP
Benjamin L Hooks elected unanimously to succeed Roy Wilkins as executive director of the NAACP. The 51 year old Memphian, first black FCC member, will resign from the commission to take the post, assuming office January 1 1977.
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New York
Benjamin L. Hooks
Federal Communications Commission
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
The
NAACP
Hooks
Wilkins
Memphis
Tenn
FCC
Benjamin Hooks
Washington
Tennessee
New master plan hearing looks at city growth changes
Karen Garloch outlines a revised city plan reducing coverage from 70 to about 25 square miles and reviews accomplishments and proposals. Tom Muchmore reports on REACT clubs using citizen emergency radios before the nationwide craze. Nancy Vorhis and Iona Asher cover psychologists guiding parent child understanding in two courses.
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Karen Garloch
React Club
Tom Muchmore
Nancy Vorhis
Iona Asher
UAW to set GM strike deadline after Chrysler pact
UAW will set a GM strike deadline early this week after a last minute tentative Chrysler agreement. Chrysler talks covered 9,000 salaried workers, while GM negotiators aim for a similar pattern with 390,000 workers. Etobicoke casting plant near Toronto remained closed with 356 workers on strike.
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UAW
Chrysler
Detroit
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
U.S
Ford Motor Co
Leonard Woodcock
Chrysler Council
Etobicoke, Ont
Toronto
Trenton
Mich
Twinsburg
Ohio
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