Spotlight on Australia booze and crime in a mixed bag
A Sydney senate report decries heavy drinking in Australia while Tony Hulman Jr. of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway dies at 76. Port Lavaca eyes a $4.5 billion LNG terminal with Algeria gas planned for 20 years. Other items include swine regulation, a Houston murder trial, a Texas cotton theft sentence, and U.S. policy moves on loans, speed limits, and cross border prisoner exchanges.
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Indianapolis
Anton J
Tony’’ Hulman Jr
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Senate coalition seeks to derail energy tax package
A Senate coalition pushes to end debate and send the $49 billion eight year energy tax breaks package back to Finance Committee. Democrats oppose the bill for its industry tax breaks, hoping to bolster Carter’s broader energy plan. The move could kill energy tax legislation this year.
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Washington
Farmers Home Administration
Senate
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
Senate Coalition
Jim Luther
Associated Press
Senate Finance Committee
Carter
House
Senate Committee
Finance Committee
Third World nations push for tougher South Africa embargo
United States and Western allies on the U N Security Council back a mandatory arms embargo on South Africa but African delegates demand tougher action with economic sanctions and a longer lasting impact. The plan, six months with possible renewal, drew protests from South Africa’s leaders who say the move targets only their government.
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Charles Hanley
Associated Press
United Nations
N.Y
United States
U.N. Security Council
South Africa
Security Council
Carter
Koelof Botha
Botha
America
Pieter Botha
U.N
Britain
France
West Germany
Canada
Defense lawyers expose gaps in Gavrel testimony at Davis trial
In Amarillo Texas the defense in Cullen Davis’s capital murder trial attacked Gus Gavrel Jr’s statements. They highlighted uncertainty about the shooting timing and introduced a mystery car. Gavrel reportedly told ambulance staff he did not know the shooter but later said he recognized Cullen Davis’s voice.
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Cullen Davis
Gavrel
Davis
Fort Worth
Andrea Wilborn
Priscilla
Stan Farr
Garrel
Beverly Bass
Tommy Jourden
Jourden
Cullen
Gayrel
LaVonne
Elvira the Ghost Sits in Reserved Opera Seat
In Woodstock Illinois the ghost Elvira, rumored to haunt the Woodstock Opera House since its 1890s era, is seen by cast and fans seated in DD113 or roaming the balcony. Theater officials note the seat is sold to theatergoers when not needed, with Elvira described as a pink dressed, tall figure whose sighs are said to signal mood.
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Charles Chamberlain
Woodstock, Ill
Woodstock Opera House
Elvira
Esther Wanieck
Chicago
Orson Welles
Paul Newman
Geraldine Page
Mrs. Warieck
Doug Rankin
Opera House
Farmers urged to strike to gain fair prices
Illinois farmers heard leaders Eugene Schroeder of Campo Colorado and Gerald Wright of Hereford Texas call for an American Agriculture strike set for December 14 if prices do not return to parity with World War I terms. They warned many farmers face bankruptcy without higher prices and rejected government subsidies.
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Charles Roberts
Associated Press
Anna
Schroeder
Illinois
John Collins
Ridgway
Cris Mosby Jr
Jonesboro
Wright and Schroeder
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Hulman
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Stephen A. Hatcher
Nowlin
Seymour
Texas
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Cattle
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FHA
Briscoe
Austin
Tex
Dolph Briscoe
Highway Department
Bell
Griffin Bell
Ku Klux Klan
Mexico
KKK
U.s.mexico
Kissinger
UTA
Henry Kissinger
University of Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
LBJ School of Public Affairs
Texas Union
White House
Brandt
Willy Brandt
Social Democratic Party
Munich
Marienplatz
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Midwest
Appalachians
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Iowa
Missouri
Maine
Pacific Northwest
California
Upper
Great Lakes
New England
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Corpus Christi
Hibbing
Minn
Pecos River
Gus Gavrel
Mike Cochran
Amarillo, Tex
Gus Gavrel Jr
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Wright
Pecos
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