DNR Opposes Cross Florida Barge Canal Plan
Florida DNR urged the Cabinet to withdraw state support for the Cross Florida Barge Canal, calling it environmentally dangerous and economically unviable. It recommended keeping land along the 110 mile route under state control, preserving segments for recreation and wildlife, and transferring canal lands to Florida while seeking Congress to scrap the project.
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Tallawassee
Fla
UPI
Department’ of Natural Resources
Corps
Congress
Buckman
Rodman
Inglis
DNR
St. Johns
Eureka
Canal Authority
Florida
Shields
Carter's Brother Loses Mayor Bid in Plains Ga
In Plains Georgia Billy Carter, brother of a future president, lost the mayoral race to incumbent A L Blanton by 90 to 71. Carter, 38, wore casual clothes and quipped about possibly running in Australia next time.
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Australia
Gerstein Wins Okay to Handle Bombing Trial
Governor Reubin Askew permits Dade County state attorney Richard Gerstein to continue prosecuting Rolando Otero-Hernandez known as El Condor in a spree of bombings in Dade County including near Miami International Airport and police facilities.
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Gerstein
Tallahassee, Fla
UPI
Reubin Askew
Dade County
Richard Gerstein
Rolando Otero-Hernandez
el Condor
Dade
Lenore C. Nesbitt
Pensacola
Curtis Golden
Askew
Golden
Olero-Hernandez
Miami International Airport
FHI
City of Miami Police Department
Coleman Rejects Mandatory Auto Airbags Plan
Washington AP secretary William Coleman rejected a blanket mandate for airbags in cars proposing a two year test in about 5 percent of vehicles starting September 1978 if industry agrees. The plan would raise new car prices by 50 to 100 dollars with total costs near 86 million. Detroit reaction was guarded and GM and Chrysler offered mixed comments.
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Tallahassee
Fin
UPF
Bill Gunter
Capitol
Department of General Services
Gunter
DHGS
General Services
Jack Kane
Kane
Ford
Washington
API
Ching
William Coleman
Caleman
Detroit
General Motors
Chrysler Corp
Coleman
Supreme Court voids Georgia death verdict over juror clash
The Supreme Court warned state courts to follow capital case procedures, overturning Curfew Davis’s Georgia death sentence for failing to adequately question a juror about anti death penalty views. Justices stayed executions of Robert Excell White and Gary Gilmore, delaying action while appeals proceed.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Georgia
Supreme’ Court
Robert Excell White
Gary Mark Gilmore
Utah
Gilmore
Davis
Georgia Supreme Court
J.E. Abernathy
Texas Execution Blocked By Appeal To High Court
The Texas execution of Robert Excert White was halted by an appeal to the state’s High Court. White, awaiting death in Huntsville, asked the justices to ignore his lawyers’ appeals and proceed.
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United States
White
Texas Electric Chair
Supreme Court
Gilmore
Utah
Texas
Washington
UPI
Robert Excert White
Texas Electric
Gary Mark Gilmore
Huntsville
McKinney, Tex
U S Philippines base talks break down amid talks halt
The State Department said negotiations on U S base rights in the Philippines have broken down with no further talks possible during the Ford administration. A KissingerRomulo meeting was cancelled and Manila seeks better terms from the Carter administration amid a five year deal proposal.
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Washington
UPI
State Department
U.S
Philippines
Department
Robert Funseth
Henry Kissinger
Carlos Romulo
Romulo
United States
Clark AF Base
Subic Bay Naval Base
Speed Limit Conviction Challenge Tests Standing
Leon Circuit Judge Donald Hartwell questioned a Florida State University law student and proposed class action over a 55 mph speed limit during a short period three years ago. The suit seeks about 25 million dollars in traffic fines refunded to motorists and faces questions on legal standing and court process for counties.
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Tallahassee
Fla
UPI
Leon
Donald Hartwell
Hartwell
Florida State University Law
Richard Glenn
Michael McDonnell
Glenn
Wright Wins Key House Democratic Leader Race Unanimous ONeill
Rep. Jim Wright of Texas won the House Democratic leadership ballot by a single vote in a four way race. Thomas P. ONeill was chosen speaker by acclamation as the caucus begins to organize the 94th Congress.
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Washington
UPI
Jim Wright
Texas
House
Thomas P. O'Neill
Wright
Phillip Burton
California
Richard Bolling
Missouri
John McFall
O'Neill
Burton
Lberal
Bolling
Carl Albert
Thomas Foley
Shirley Chisholm
New York
GOP
O’neill
Cambridge
Mass
Boston
Massachusetts House
Man Found Hanged In Local Hospital
A 57 year old DeFuniak Springs man Leroy Frank Howell was found hanging in a storage room at the General Hospital of Fort Walton Beach about five to six hours after he took his life, according to Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputies.
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DeFuniak Springs
General Hospital
Fort Walton Beach
Okaloosa County
Leroy Frank Howell
Niceville
Howell
Edmund Kielman
Kielman
Pearl Harbor Survivors Organize to Memorialize Event
Northwest Florida residents who survived Pearl Harbor unite through the Northwest Florida Chapter 3 of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. The Panama City area group, chartered in 1968, meets monthly and includes members from Fort Walton Beach Destin Pensacola Valparaiso and Tallahassee.
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Pearl Harbor
Florida
Northwest Florida
Island
Oahu
Pearl
Naval Coastal Systems Laboratory
Panama City
U.S. Army
Fort Kamehameha
Jim Lawson
Phoenix
Dick Davis
Navy
California
Ronnie Everett
Carl Holmes
MAS Candle
Uss
Pennsylvania
Larry Naeger
U.S. Marine Corps
Tennessee
Ken Parker
US. Signal Corps
Hickam Field
Marion Pomeroy
Shaw
Robert Zummak
Oglala
Owen Lynch
O.C. Douglas
Destin
John Magler
Valparaiso
Donald Wuertz
Pensacola
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Pearl Harbor Survivors Association
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White House
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Samuel Smith
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Suwannee County
Paris
Michel Poniatowski
Parisien Libere
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J. Sam Perry
Chicago
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Oregon
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Jimmy Carter
Clay Myers
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Oklahoma
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