Senate seeks to tie tax cuts to spending controls
Senate endorses linking future tax cuts to restraint on federal spending amid a broad 65-20 vote. The plan would deliver about 164.5 billion in tax reductions from 1980 to 1983 if spending growth stays in check, with a target of one percent above inflation.
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Senate
Congress
House
Sam Nunn
D-Ga
Finance Committee
Carter
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
Helms
Nunn
Energy package moves toward final passage in Congress
After 138 months of debate Congress nears final action on Carter era energy proposals. The Senate approved two non tax parts on energy conservation and electric utilities rates, while the tax measures head to conference agreement. Aimed at efficiency, the package bars federal rate coercion and favors state led energy saving incentives plus home insulation loans for low income homeowners.
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Conference Committee
Carter
House
Capitol Hill
Federal Energy Department
End of military abortions looms in defense bill
Congress moves to align military abortion funding with Medicaid rules. Conferees back restrictions allowing abortions only to save the mother, in cases of rape or incest, or severe health risk. Pentagon had reported 26 000 military funded abortions in the year to August 1977. Agreement awaits full Senate and House approval.
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Congress
Senate
House
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Pentagon
John Stennis
D-Miss
Armed Services Committee
Warren Magnuson
D-Wash
Appropriations Committee
Robert K. Dornan
Calif
Record hog weighs nearly two tons in North Carolina
A full-grown hog typically reaches 800 pounds, but the largest on record weighed 1,904 pounds in North Carolina, setting a historic extreme for swine size.
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North Carolina
CIA funds linked to Shevchenko defector book plan
NBC News reports Arkady Shevchenko, a former UN official, routed CIA money through Judy Chavez who plans to write about him. Chavez said she received 35 000 to 40 000 dollars from Shevchenko with an FBI inquiry into her payments.
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Arkady Shevchenko
CIA
NBC News
Judy Chavez
FBI
Arkady
Ms. Chavez
Shevchenko
United Nations
Virgin Islands
U.N
Hetu
NBC
U.N. Secretariat
Moscow
Leongina
Historic Blennerhassett Island development planned
Plans for a 16 million dollar development of Blennerhassett Island on the Ohio River between Parkersburg and Belpre are announced. The project by the Blennerhassett Historical Park Commission aims to restore the island once home to Harman Blennerhassett and his wife and linked to Aaron Burr. The plan includes a mansion amphitheater farm gardens orchards wildlife area and a lake.
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W.va
Blennerhassett Island
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Here
Belpre
Ohio
Harman Blennerhassett
Aaron Burr
Blennerhassett
Mississippi Valley
Spain
Governors rally support for Carter energy bill boosted by White House call
White House press secretary Jody Powell said President Carter held a 25 minute conference call with governors from 16 states urging them to press their House delegations to back the energy bill. Powell noted several governors may travel to Washington to advocate. most are Democrats, with two Republicans among the callers. Carter also reached about 20 congressmen with the same appeal after returning to the White House from Maryland.
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Camp David
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Powell
Washington
Jerry Apodaca
New Mexico
Busbee
Georgia
Brendan T. Byrne
New Jersey
Hugh L. Carey
New York
Julian M. Carroll
Kentucky
John N. Dalton
Virginia
J. Joseph Garrahy
Rhode Island
James B. Hunt Jr
North Carolina
Arthur
A. Link
North Dakota
Scott M. Matheson
Utah
William G. Milliken
Michigan
Mike O'Callaghan
Nevada
David H. Pryor
Arkansas
Dixy Lee Ray
John D Rockefeller
West Virginia
Dalton
Milliken Carter
Eugene Eidenberg
Carter
Richard D. Lamm
Colorado
Milton Shapp
Pennsylvania
Reubin Askew
Florida
Robert W Straub
Oregon
Maryland
Kennedy plan gains backing from Meany and Fraser
Labor leaders Meany and Fraser say Carter moves too slowly toward national health insurance and urge Congress to back Kennedy's federal plan. Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts, tests ahead of hearings to push comprehensive coverage funded by employers and the federal government, while inflation and economy shape the pace.
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Douglas Fraser
Carter
Congress
Coete
Edward
U.S
Canada
Rupert Gossling
Martlack
Saskatchewan
Kennedy
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