Editorials Impressive absenteeism at NGA meeting
Louisville editorial notes 13 of 50 governors missed the National Governors Association convention, including California New York and Illinois leaders. It highlights a trend toward later fatherhood with Rockefeller and Teasdale among regrets, while still drawing 300 journalists as a major media event in Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
NEA
National Governors’ Association
NGA
Edmund G
Jerry’’ Brown Jr
California
Hugh L. Carey
New York
James R. Thompson Jr
Illinois
John D
Jay’’ Rockefeller IV
West Virginia
Joseph P. Teasdale
Missouri
Alabama
Alaska
Hawaii
Louisiana
Ohio
Oregon
South Dakota
Utah
Bluegrass
Hope draws Eagleton fundraiser in St Louis
Comedian Bob Hope, aligned with Republicans in recent years, headlines a $200-a-plate Democratic fundraiser for Missouri Senator Thomas F. Eagleton in St Louis. Former Sen. Stuart Symington lured Hope to appear as a personal favor, helping Eagleton’s 1980 re election bid. In Toronto a Vietnamese refugee gave birth to a 5 pound 4 ounce boy within 24 hours of arriving from Malaysia. Kim Chi Tran and her husband Tam Lam, plus six other refugees, were welcomed by St Michael Hospital staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Hope
Missouri
Hope
St. Louis
Thomas F. Eagleton
Eagleton
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Toronto
Malaysia
Kim Chi Tran
St. Michael Hospital
Inflation remains the real problem says secretary
Treasury secretary Blumenthal told senators inflation erodes purchasing power chills business investment and weakens exports urging workers not to seek higher wages to cover losses. Bosworth warned that wage gains could trigger an acceleration of inflation and a deep recession, describing an ominous 13.4 percent pace so far in 1979.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cunniff
NEW York
Washington
Jimmy Carter
America
Carter
W. Michael Blumenthal
Treasury
Senate Budget Committee
Congress
Joint Economic Committee
Barry Bosworth
Blumenthal
History day highlights including Nero fire and Chappaquiddick
Today on July 18, notable events span 64 A D the Great Fire of Rome linked to Nero to 1776 New Jersey independence and 1914 US aviation section forming. Other notes cover the St Lawrence Seaway treaty 1973 North Vietnamese mineclearance end and Archibishop Makarios arrival in New York. Birthdays include John Glenn Skelton and Haya kawa. A thought prompts civic questions.
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Associated Press
Rome
Nero
New Jersey
John Paul Jones
Paris
U.S. Army
Signal Corps
United States
Canada
St. Lawrence Seaway
U.S
Sen
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Chapaquiddick Island
Mass
Mary Jo Kopechne
Makarios
New York
Cyprus
U.N
Soviet Union
John Glenn
Ohio
S.I. Hayakawa
Calif
Red Skelton
Oil and oil politics shape US Saudi ties in uneasy alliance
The United States and Saudi Arabia sit in a high stakes, mutually dependent relationship born in the postwar oil era. From a colonial resource partnership to a modern interdependent alliance, both nations rely on oil, the other’s military backing, and economic stability, while facing regional and international pressures that threaten their uneasy bond.
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United States
Saudi Arabia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ibn Saud
Mideast
OPEC
Iran
Iraq
Yemen
Persian Gulf
Soviet Union
Israel
Kidnapping ransom saga and Capitol Hill notes
A column recounts the 1976 to 1978 kidnapping of William Niehous in Caracas by the Argimiro Gabaldon Revolutionary Command, the failed ransom negotiations in New York and Geneva, and Niehous’ release in 1979. It also covers Washington Whirl items on lunch delays in Congress, Proxmire libel suits, Carter and irrigation policy, and Newt Gingrich’s Library of Congress stack card perk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Washington
William Nichous
Argimiro Gabaldon Revolutionary Command
New York City
Owens-Illinois
Niehouls
Ohio
Ramson
Niehous
Caracas
Carlos Andres Perez
Niehaus
Donna
Jack Mitchell
Geneva
Switzerland
New York Times
Capitol Hill
Ed Patten
D-N.j
Tom Steed
D-Okla
Proxmire
Jimmy Carter
Little Guy
Senate
Carter Administration
Newt Gingrich
R-Ga
Gingrich
Library of Congress
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Uncle Amos
Hoopee
Ironpants
Dumville
Brazil
Argentina
Colombia
Central African Empire
the World Almanac
Merry
NEA Inc
TM Re
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