State Comptroller warns buyers on tax delinquency risk
State Comptroller Bob Bullock urged investors to check tax records before buying Texas businesses. He warned buyers bear responsibility for prior owners’ delinquent sales taxes, likening it to buying a pig in a poke. The issue echoes broader bills on public financial disclosure and revenue bonds.
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Job discrimination age limits eyed for expansion
A Labor Department spokesman said President Carter may back legislation to ban job discrimination at all ages, expanding the 1967 law that currently protects workers up to age 5. The note follows proposed bills before Congress to extend protections nationwide.
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Trudeau sweeps by elections boosting snap election odds
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Ellot Trudeau's Liberal party won five of six by seats Tuesday, taking a Prince Edward Island seat from the Conservatives and holding four Quebec seats. The Social Credit party kept its Quebec seat amid a broader by election momentum. In Brazil, coffee exports for early 1977 rose sharply in value and volume. Mexico City police report the abduction of department store owner Jesus del Cerro Portillo, 46, by three armed men seeking a $446,000 ransom. Police speculate on possible links to the 23rd of September Communist League.
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Carter and Fahd meet over Palestinian role in peace talks
President Carter met with Saudi Deputy PM Prince Fahd in a friendly session but produced no agreement on including the PLO in a Geneva peace conference. Powell said Carter still opposes PLO inclusion while Fahd favors it, and no policy shift on recognizing Israel or oil issues was announced. The two leaders planned further talks to reconvene the Geneva conference in the latter half of the year.
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