Carter Vetoes Anti Busing Measure Amid Desegregation Clash
President Carter vetoes a 9.1 billion appropriations bill containing an anti busing amendment, arguing it would curb presidential powers to enforce desegregation. He warns Congress cannot bar court actions for busing and says the issue hinges on executive authority to uphold the Constitution and laws.
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Washington
Congress
Carter
Ronald Reagan
Jesse Helms
N.C
Sen
Orrin Hatch
Utah
Senate
Howard H. Baker
Tennessee
United States
Justice, State and Commerce Departments
El Salvador Junta Accuses Right Wing of Nuns Murders
El Salvador's ruling junta blamed right wing terrorists for the murders of four American women including Sister Dorothy Kazel and Maryknoll sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke and lay volunteer Jean Donovan. The bodies were found and buried on a dirt road near the capital.
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el Salvador
San Salvador
Jose Napoleon Duarte
Oscar Romero
Dorothy
Kazel
Cleveland
Ursuline Order
Ita Ford
Maura Clarke
Maryknoll
New York City
Jean Donovan
Local banks cling to optimism amid farming credit squeeze
Farmers face high interest and slow grain deposits while Land Bank expands with three new offices. Bankers expect loan demand to stay weak, yet maintain conservative lending. Officials foresee long term farming viability if harvests improve and groceries price rise.
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FIHA
Congress
Murrow
Waggoner
Land Bank
Davidson
Don Hay
First National Bank
Ransom
Agriculture
Earl Butz
U.S
Embassy in El Salvador Faces Bloodied Body Discovery
U S Ambassador Robert White watched as the first body was exhumed amid violence between guerrilla factions. National Guardsmen surrounded the scene while an embassy official said the United States would take charge of the bodies. The sisters accompanied by refugees in El Salvador amid a year of about 8 500 deaths from the conflict.
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White
National Guard
el Salvador
Hotel Fire At Stouffer's Inn Kills 26 In Westchester
Electrical fire rips through conference rooms at Stouffer's Inn in White Plains killing 26 and injuring at least 40. Most victims likely Arrow Electronics and Nestle executives. No sprinklers in affected area, investigators consider an electrical cause as walls melt.
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White Plains
N.Y
Stouffer's Inn
Franz Eichenauzer
General Foods
Purchase
Robert Makowski
Arrow Electronics Inc
Nestle Company Inc
Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office
California
Canada
United States
Mgm Grand Hotel
Las Vegas
Makowski
Carl Vergari
Westchester County
Mgm Grand
Arrow
Nestle
General Foods Corp
International Business ,Machines Corp
Pepsico Inc
mid-Manhattan
Arrow Electronics
Greenwich
Baby Miss America pageant contenders face finals costs
In Kansas City Missouri moms of Baby Miss America winners call national finals expenses in Houston ridiculous. Five of nine winners plan to skip the Dec event citing costs from sponsorship fees photography advertising booster and per spectator charges.
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Kansas City, Mo
Texas
Houston
Kansas City Star
Tracy Matthias
Topeka
Jessica
Baby Miss America Pageant Productions Inc
Metairie
Kansas City
Debra Crawford
Monett
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the Family Circus
Robert White
Doyen Insurance Agency
Howard J. Doyen
Glenn Bigelow
Betty Malburg
Ottawa
Kansas
By Bil Keane
Oliver
IRI
Goosemyer
Sarge
Bailey
Lil
Gretchen
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