Suarez Victory Shapes Spain Vote After Free Election
Madrid Spain Premier Adolfo Suarez and his Democratic Center Union won the first free ballot in 41 years and aim to address a 20 percent inflation rate and high unemployment. The party appeared to hold about 170 of 350 chamber seats, short of a majority, with a likely Senate majority. The Socialists trailed in both chambers.
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Survivors oppose Nazi parade as court ruling aids hate spread
Sol Goldstein, a Sol Goldstein concentration camp survivor and president of Remnants of the Holocaust, denounces a Supreme Court ruling allowing Nazis to march in a July 4 parade as protecting hatred rather than free speech. He notes 6,000 to 7,000 Holocaust survivors in Skokie, Illinois. A separate item reports Billy Graham urging Christians to resist persecution at the Southern Baptist Convention with delegates reaffirming opposition to homosexuality. Washington reports on Sarah Weddington potential nomination as general counsel in the Agriculture Department by President Carter.
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Southern Baptist Convention
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Andrew Young Jr
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U.S. Agriculture Department
Jimmy Carter
Sarah Weddington
White House
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Seven Acre Houston Toad Habitat Designation Planned
Federal officials move to declare seven acres around Houston as critical habitat for the endangered Houston toad, designating areas including the Sharpstown Shopping Center neighborhood. The two inch brown toad is among the rarest amphibians, with an estimated population between 5,000 and 10,000.
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Sharpstown
U.S. Interior Department
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Three-star general on the carpet
Lt. Gen. Donn Starry faces private meetings with Army leaders over an unauthorized warning that the United States could be drawn into a Soviet Chinese war. The incident follows recent discipline of Gen. John Singlaub for comments on Korea and reflects Pentagon efforts to enforce policy restricting public remarks. Starry, 52, was returning from Germany to assume new duties at Ft. Monroe after a farewell with 5th Corps members.
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Watergate pipsqueak burglary marked five years on
On the Watergate sixth floor rear stairwell a plaque marks the pipsqueak burglary five years on. The Watergate break in led to Nixon's resignation and prison terms for several aides. Ehrlichman Mitchell and Halderman are jailed. Liddy remains imprisoned. Barker Martinez Gonzalez Sturgis and others faced conviction.
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Liddy
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Democratic National Committee
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Eugenio Martinez
Virgilio Gonzalez
Frank Sturgis
Court rules no day off to church
Supreme Court rules employers are not required to grant religious days off if a seniority system bars accommodation or if it would cause preferential treatment. Judge White said TWA met its obligation. Sen. Randolph vows new legislation to protect religious observance. The decision affects Orthodox Jews Seventh Day Adventists Seventh Day Baptists and Worldwide Church of God followers.
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D-W. Va
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Thurgood Marshall
William Brennan
Trans World Airlines
Larry Hardison
Worldwide Church of God
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TWA
International Association of Machinists
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Justice Department
White
82 Year-Old McDaniel Attends 65 Consecutive Sunday Schools
George W. McDaniel Jr. of Dallas has missed only one Sunday school in his life, a record spanning 65 years and 3,380 Sundays. He earned numerous Cross and Crown medals for perfect attendance and now serves as Highland Park Presbyterian Church treasurer. He plans to receive a 66th pendant on January 1, 1978.
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George W.mcdaniel Jr
Abilene
McDaniel
Presbyterian Church
Presby
Terian
Brest
France
South Texas
Bradshaw
Briscoe to Call July 11 Special Session on School Financing
Gov. Dolph Briscoe says House and Senate are close to an agreement on public school financing and will call a special session for July 11. He expects work to take a week or 10 days and will outline topics in the formal call, with education funding the definite item. Other issues like tax revisions may be added.
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