Government Printing Office cuts mail in East to UPS
The Government Printing Office shifts depository shipments to United Parcel Service for libraries east of the Mississippi, skipping the Postal Service. Director James D. Livsey says costs drop by a quarter to a half million dollars and service improves with fewer damaged or missing packages.
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Free Enterprise System
U.S. Postal Service
U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington
Mississippi
United Parcel Service Inc
Postal Service
James D. Livsey
Printing Office
UPS
Livsey
U.S
Export policy critique questions miracles in Carter plan
The Wall Street Journal editors flag that Carter's export promotion policy should not be expected to fix the trade deficit. They caution that demand fundamentals and possible subsidies could undermine exports, while warn against policies limiting reinvestment abroad and fear mixed signals to Congress.
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Carter
U.S
Rhodesia
The
Wall Street Journal
Agency ties to private shipping group exposed in seven year probe
A House subcommittee report finds the Maritime Administration ran a private trade group, the National Maritime Council, with about 40 government staff and more than 1.37 billion in subsidies and 1.66 billion in guarantees to NMC members between 1975 and 1978. It cites conflicts of interest, illegal lobbying concerns, and lavish taxpayer funding for industry favors, including a $125,000 PR contract to Jafshoon Communications tied to a cargo preference push.
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Washington
House
Maritime Administration
Shipping Industry
National Maritime Council
NMC
U.S
Council
Subcommittee
Commerce Department
Congressional
Private Trade Association
Congress
Marbella
Spain
United States
Europe
International Airlines
Latin America
Orient
Italy
France
Public forum opposing new federal taxidermy rules
Editor notes a Federal Register proposal from the Dept of the Interior affecting import and transport of hides capes furs used by taxidermists. Hearings are set in Oct in Washington DC and Denver with a sixty day potential rule effect. Readers urged to contact U.S. Representatives. Mrs A D Callaway Roswell New Mexico
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Jonas Brothers Taxidermy Suppy Company
Denver
Colorado
Dept of the Interior
Federal Register
Washington, D.C
U.S
A. D. Callaway
Roswell
Sheriff’s Rodeo Queen Contest Leads With 683 Vote Margin
Tex Scott holds a 683 vote lead in the Sheriff’s Posse Rodeo Queen ballot count as Irene Gilliland rises to second place by 224 votes. The winner will be announced Sunday and crowned Tuesday after two days of balloting. Salvation Army Home League sells goods tomorrow in front of J C Penney 313 Main St proceeds fund home missionary projects. City Council meets as Eastern New Mexico State Fair opens.
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Tex Scott
Sheriff's Posse
Irene Gilliland
Louise Smith
Salvation Army Home League
Walter Patterson
Home League
J.C. Penney Co
Main St
Salvation Army
State jobs split gender and party in New Mexico race
In Santa Fe Democratic hopeful Bruce King and Republican Joe Sheen clash over post January hirings and firings as Gov. Apodaca leaves. About 12 800 state workers exist with 105 to 125 exempt posts and 500 probationary jobs. The incoming governor could shape roughly 600 jobs, possibly 250 for supporters, amid ongoing budget hearings and a dispute over the Los Lunas penal institution cooling system and the future of St. Vincent Hospital.
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Round House
Jerry Apodaca
Glen Gates
Governor’s
Organized Crime Prevention Commission
Legislative Finance Committee
LFC
Rep
Eddie Lopez
Len C. B. Trujillo
Tony Elias
Elias
Penal Institution
Los Lunas
St. Vincent Hospital
Museum of New Mexico
Sen
Aubrey Dunn
Dunn
Spain a tourist magnet with growing hotels and car culture
Morocco to Marbella and Seville are highlighted as Spain attracts millions of visitors. The piece notes Spain’s booming tourism, evolving from a horse drawn past to a motorized present, with Italy and France drawing many travelers. It contrasts Spain’s harsh yet proud heritage with rising modernity and transport.
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Italy
France
Spain
United Kingdom
Marbella
Seville
Old Spain
Cervantes
Lope de Vega
Merida
Julius Caesar
Pamplona
Ignatius Loyola
Europe
Marcelo Oreja
Ministerio de Relations Exteriores
Switzerland
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House Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs
Benjamin Rosenthal
D-N.y
Wome
Sofiba
Yankees
New Mexico
Small Society
Ernie Mills
St. Vincent
Department of Automated Data Processing
Star Trek
Henry J. Taylor
Madrid
Barcelona
Miguel Cervantes
St. Ignatius Loyola
Don Quixote
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