House Demos Map Battle Plans For State Legislature
Kansas House Democrats unveil a 1978 legislative roadmap prioritizing tax relief, energy conservation, health care cost control, and local government aid. Proposals include food tax elimination, restoring the property tax lid, higher homestead relief, and funding for court costs.
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House
Demos
Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Hurley and Cartin
Kansas University Medical Center
Indochina Crisis Deepens With Vietnam Invasion Claim
Cambodia cut diplomatic ties with Vietnam and accused Hanoi of a massive invasion aimed at toppling Phnom Penh. Radio Phnom Penh described divisions of Vietnamese troops aided by foreigners, with hundreds of tanks and warplanes. Cambodia set Jan 7 as a deadline for Vietnamese diplomats to leave and suspended air links.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Cambodia
Vietnam
Phnom Penh
Radio Phnom Penh
Khieu Samphan
Union of
Washington
Saigon
North Vietnam
U.S
South Vietnam
Coal Strike Burns Full Bore
Thousands of United Mine Workers enter 1978 amid a 26 day nationwide strike with talks broken off and no immediate resumption. About 100 pickets were arrested near Norton Virginia and 17 miners were seized after a rock hit a non union coal truck as a convoy passed. Leaders blame the other side as federal mediators may be called back.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
UMW
Norton
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Arnold Miller
UMWA
Miller
BCOA
Residents Oppose Job Corps Center in St. Marys Kansas
Angry residents of St. Marys fear a Job Corps Training Center would bring trouble and depress property values as about 300 underprivileged youths arrive. A town meeting was set to hear opinions while Labor Department officials study site viability and community needs.
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ST. Marys
Kan
U.S. Department of Labor
St. Marys College
Topeka
Labor Department
Kansas
Robert Perry
Kansas City
Here
Perry
Job Corps
John Morgan
Corps’ Washington
Basques Win Home Rule After Long Fight in Spain
Madrid announces home rule for Vizcaya Alava and Guipuzcoa after a 10 hour cabinet meeting. The decree creates a Basque general council with three reps per province and allows Navarra to vote on joining. Provisional rule until a new constitution. Police probe thefts of explosives blamed on Basque guerrillas.
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Adolfo Suarez
Francisco Franco
ETA
Basque Land and Liberty
Madrid
Spain
Vizcaya
Alava
Guipuzcoa
Navarra
Franco
Juan Carlos
Suarez
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John Carlin
Rep
Patrick Hurley
Carlin
Senate
Steven Millstein
Hurley
Indochina
Basque
Doyen Insurance Agency
Howard S
Doyen
East
2Nd Street
Ottawa
Gerd
Beret
Panasonic
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