Editorial on labor reform bill and 1995 Senate races
Unions abandoned the controversial labor law reform bill at adjournment, reassessing Senate races for January. They expect replacements who may support the bill, citing Democrat Carl Levin in Michigan and Alabama Democrats Howell Heflin and Donald Stewart seeking seats vacated by deaths and retirement.
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Organized Labor
Senate
Labor
Carl Levin
Michigan
Robert P. Griffin
Alabama
Howell Heflin
Donald Stewart
James B. Allen
John Sparkman
Lucrative beginnings for new lawyers in top firms
A Wall Street Journal survey shows beginning lawyers may earn about 30 000 a year in leading New York firms with growth trends. nationwide, starting salaries range from 22 000 to 28 000 in major cities, 18 000 for federal positions, and future raises to 34 000 or 35 000 are deemed possible.
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Wall Street Journal
New York
Washington
Chicago
Installment debts rise in the United States
The AP analysis shows Americans in 1947 carried 3.26 percent of personal income in installment debts, rising to about 131 per thousand by 1977, with total debt including mortgages at about 70 percent of income. Government and corporate debts surged as inflation and rising rates expand borrowing and risk.
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John Cunniff
New York
America
Business Week
G. William Miller
Federal Reserve Board
Today in History Tuesday Oct 17 1978
Highlights of past events include Juan Peron seizing power in Argentina in 1945 and becoming dictator, Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777, Napoleon's Rhine Confederation dissolution in 1813, Bessemer patent in 1855, Capone conviction in 1931, Einstein fleeing Nazi Germany in 1933, Burns named Fed chair in 1973, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis marriage in 1969, Maynard Jackson becoming Atlanta mayor in 1973, and a hijacked Lufthansa incident resolved in 1978 with 86 hostages freed.
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Associated Press
Juan Peron
Buenos Aires
Argentina
John Burgoyne
Saratoga
N.Y
Napoleon Bonaparte
Confederation of the Rhine
Henry Bessemer
United States
al Capone
Chicago
Albert Einstein
Nazi Germany
Congressional record credits mixed 95th Congress results
Washington dispatch notes that the 95th Congress delivered a mixed, largely respectable policy record including unemployment relief, deficit reduction, Social Security rescue, and major arms and treaties despite a chaotic Senate process. It praises Byrd's leadership for preventing a total breakdown.
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Washington
NEA
Congress
Carter
Middle East
Turkey
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
Washington mourns, but reform may reshape Senate rules
The piece attributes ongoing procedural chaos to late Sen. James B. Allen and notes imitators from Sen. Abourezk to Sen. Hatch. It observes dilatory tactics in the Senate and House, with Byrd and O Neill unlikely to push reforms in the current session but planning future efforts as the 96th Congress opens.
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James B. Allen
D-Ala
Senate
Byrd
Allen
House
Tip O' Neill
Othe
O’neill
96Th Congress
Carter aide Kirbo accused of meddling in Vesco probe
Washington column alleges Charles Kirbo personal adviser to President Carter advised a federal witness on restraint with the FBI and conducted private probes for Attorney General Griffin Bell. It notes possible obstruction of justice and ties to White House efforts amid Vesco scandal.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Carter
Charles Kirbo
FBI
Robert Vesco
Kirbo
Vesco
Griffin Bell
White House
Bell
General Services Administration
GSA
Washington Post
General Services
Jay Solomon
Inl
Richard Nixon
Jack Caulfield
Central Intelligence Agency
Internal Revenue Service
State Department
Defense Department
CIA
G. Gordon Liddy
E. Howard Hunt
Georgia
Carter White House
Nassau
Securities and Exchange Commission
Justice Department
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Pearl Harbor
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U.S
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Evel Knievel
Rita Hayworth
Francis Bacon
Arthur Burns
William McChesney Martin
Jacqueline Kennedy
Aristotle Onassis
Maynard Jackson
Atlanta
South
Lufthansa
Somalia
Merry
Baxters
Mrs. Hoople
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