No language can prevent a race in SALT talks analysis
Washington column argues SALT talks cannot halt an arms race due to treaty language gaps and rapid advances in anti ballistic systems cruise missiles radar and precision intercontinental missiles The piece notes Soviet and U S innovations remain beyond treaty scope and warns economic limits may pressure Moscow to ease military expansion while Western aid fuels its industrial base and weapons program growth
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Washington
NEA
Soviet Union
United States
Ussr
U.S
Moscow
Secret meetings deny public right in Pecos
Editorial argues government in secret is illegal yet common in Pecos and repeated with impunity. It stresses the public’s right to know and warns that media silence excludes the voting public from democracy.
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Enterprise
Pecos
Mondale Named Carter's Principal Adviser in New Administration
President elect Carter designates Walter Mondale as his chief staff adviser and declares the staff will address him as Boss. The article notes the vice presidency has lacked defined powers beyond presiding over the Senate and questions how Carter might elevate the office to significance.
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Ale Ak
John Adams
Adams
Senate
Carter
Walter Mondale
Inflation Falls Worldwide After Recession Sparks Slowdown
AP analysis notes that inflation dropped from 1974 highs across major economies, with US CPI around 11% in 1974 to 5–6% by 1976, while UK and Italy diverged. Economies pursue restraint to avoid renewed recession, fearing slow growth and persistent unemployment as they adjust to oil price rises.
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John Cunniff
New York
United States
Japan
Germany
France
Canada
United Kingdom
Italy
Chase Manhattan Bank
State highways department spending and school tax cuts urged
A reader named Joe Harry Bower argues the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation cannot both increase state spending and cut school ad valorem taxes. He contends the department already spends a huge amount and should not have its appropriation raised while calling for substantial tax reductions.
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Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation
Joe Harry Bower
On This Date in History January 18 1977 Highlights
Highlights for January 18 include the arrival of the first English settlers in Australia in 1788 and the 1919 opening of the World War I peace conference at Versailles. Births include Daniel Webster and events span Leningrad siege, Egyptian riots, and a 1977 Commerce Secretary resignation. Cary Grant and Muhammad Ali are named birthdays.
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Associated Press
Australia
Francisco 0
Lima
Peru
James Cook
Hawaiian Islands
Daniel Webster
Salisbury
N.H
Versailles
France
Leningrad
Egypt
John Connor
Coast Guard
Adak Island
Aleutians
Cary Grant
Muhammad Ali
Barking Dogs and Tax Ideas Stir Capitol Fancy
A commentary notes barking dogs may not bite yet test your ankle on the theory. It argues imagination taxation as a new revenue idea and mentions a Capitol figure exploring possibilities. Also references an uptick in gardening catalogs arriving in mailboxes.
Memoir Sparks Washington Whisper Campaigns and Tax Woes
Fishbait Miller, longtime House Doorkeeper, writes a tell all memoir with ghostwriter Frances Spatz Leighton while hiding in Atlanta. Ex Attorney General John Mitchell faces a tax lien and prison stain as oil politics loom with Senator Abourezk's behind the scenes push on Middle East pricing.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
William
Miller
Frances Spatz Leighton
Atlanta
Fishball
Prentice-Hall
Richard Nixon
White House
Capitol Hill
Fishbait
Secret Service
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Capitol
Frank Boykin
D-Ala
Boykin
Jackie Bouvier
Washington Times-Herald
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Hubert Humprey
Fishbalt
Gabby
Harry Truman
Truman
Douglas McArthur
Wayne Hays
Ohio
Frank Chelf
D-Ky
Mitchell
John Mitchell
Treasury
New York
Internal Revenue Service
Plato Cacheris
Caceris
United States
James Abourezk
D-S.d
Middle East
Abourezk
Senate
Saudi Arabia
Khalid
Ahmed
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Mondale
Lynn Nabers
Joe Wyatt
Tom Uher
Herman Adams
Lyndon Olson
Bill Sully
Ford
By Phil Pastoret
World Almanac
Attwater
North America
George Washington
U.S. States
Texas Press Association
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