EPA panel blasted for red tape delays by officials
Frederick Carroll and Washington county officials joined a public meeting at City Hall to press EPA representatives on sewer grant funding and to attack bureaucratic delays. Engineers urged using seasoned professionals on review boards and criticized complex regulations while noting 267 million dollars in EPA grants.
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EPA
Frederick, Carroll
Washington county
Frederick County
Metropolitan Commission
state agency
Environmental Protection Agency
State Health Department
Ralph H. Sullivan
Washington
H. Leroy Whiteley
Charles E. Gross
Kenneth Pawtuck
Frederick
Carroll county
Philadelphia
Jack Patosnak
Parsippafly
Troy Hillis
N.J
Whiteley
Gross
Patosnak
Ronald N. Young
Severe storm drenches county starts fires and knocks out power
A 20 minute thunderstorm with lightning dumped over an inch of rain across the county causing four scattered fires. Potomac Edison reported up to 1000 homes without power, all restored by storm. No serious injuries occurred. Fire teams from multiple towns tackled fires including a small blaze at Rose Hill Manor and damage to a residence on Teen Barnes Road. Continued updates noted no major crop losses.
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Potomac Eisen
Potomac Edison
Frederick City
Rose Hill Manor
North Market Street
Junior
Independents
Citizens
Douglas Whittington
Teen Barnes Road
Jefferson
Braddock Heights
Carroll Manor
New Market
Damascus
Weller Road
Monrovia
Carrollton Avenue
Philadelphia Workers Strike at A2 Air Space Museum
Workers at A2 Air and Space Museum in Philadelphia walk off the job amid a broader labor push. Report notes ongoing disruptions and anticipated bargaining talks with management.
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PHILADELPHIA
AIR, Space Museum
Diplomats say hijackers free 100 Israelis at Entebbe
Ugandan and Israeli sources report 100 hostages released at Entebbe Airport amid negotiations. Israel signals willingness to discuss prisoner releases in exchange for freedom of passengers aboard the Air France jet hijacked from Tel Aviv.
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KAMPALA
Uganda
Entebbe
Israel
Tel Aviv
Yitzhak Rabin
Greece
Air France
Nairobi
Kenya
Paris
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Poe
pavaramene
Hilarion Capudji
Jerusalem
Kozo Okamoto
Supreme Court curbs parental and spousal abortion consent
The Supreme Court ruled states cannot require husband or parent consent for abortion. It struck down Missouri 1974 consent provisions and the saline injection ban but kept a written consent requirement and certain reporting rules. The decision follows the Court's 1973 stance limiting state abortion regulation in early pregnancy.
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WASHINGTON
Supreme Court
states
Missouri
Missouri abortion viability ruling and consent questions
The high court upheld Missouri viability definition for abortion restrictions and struck down a provision requiring doctors to exert the same diligence to preserve fetal life as in live birth. Justices Burger White and Rehnquist dissented on spousal consent. Stevens dissented on parental consent. Blackmun stressed states cannot unilaterally bar a wife from terminating pregnancy.
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Missouri
Warren E. Burger
Byron R. White
William H. Rehnquest
John Paul Stevens
Harry A Blackmun
Ford presses for larger tax cuts amid freeze
President Ford urges Congress to enact bigger tax reductions despite a two month payroll withholding freeze. He cites 1975 recession cuts and argues for a $10 billion tax cut, while Congress signals restraint and extends relief through September 1977. The Senate narrowly rejected a funding plan for the extra extension.
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WASHINGTON
Ford
Congress
from
tranieres
Finance Committee
Senate
Balloonist Plucked From Ocean Near Halifax
Karl Thomas, flying a 90 foot helium balloon to cross the Atlantic, was rescued by the Soviet ship Dekabrisk about 300 miles south of Halifax. He is in good condition and to be dropped off in Rotterdam on July 8. A Coast Guard C130 searched before the rescue. earlier, a major search faced no sighting. Also reported: Maryland lottery numbers and a modest stock market rise with the Dow at 1,004.67.
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HALIFAX
Canada
Karl Thomas
Thomas
United States Federal Aviation Administration
Rotterdam
Holland
Atlantic
Lakehurst
N.J
armed forces air-sea rescue center
Dekabrisk
Coast Guard
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