Hippo Mark Finds New Friend To Cure Identity Crisis
In Portland at Washington Park Zoo 11 week old hippopotamus Mark receives a 6 month old 60 pound pig named Nitrate as a playmate. Zoo director Jonelyn Wilson says the pig will help Mark identify with other animals after his early foot abrasion treatment.
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UPI
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Washington Park
Salome
Freddie
Jonelyn Wilson
Ms. Wilson
Carter welfare reform could cost Westale billions in 1982
A preliminary Congressional Budget Office analysis says President Carter's welfare reform plan would cost taxpayers about 49.4 billion in fiscal year 1982, roughly 10 billion more than current programs. The plan targets 18 year olds for aid and aims for enactment by 1981, with debate continuing in Congress.
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Westale
Craig A. Palmer
Washington
UPI
Congressional Budget
Congressional Budget Office
Special House Welfare Reform Subcommittee
Subcommittee
James Corman
D-Calif
Augustus Hawkins
Corman
Congress
Budget Office
Willis Gradison
Ohio
Arab Leaders Meet To Oppose Sadat Drive
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadafy hosts a conference of hard-line Arab states and groups in Tripoli to oppose Anwar Sadat’s trip to Israel. Attendees include Hafez Assad Yasser Arafat and George Habash as Iraq Iraq's delegation arrives amid calls to unite against Sadat.
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Robin Stafford
Tripoli
Libya
UPI
Anwar Sadat
Israel
Hafez Assad
Honan Boumediemne
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat
Iraq
Moammar Khadafy
George Habbash
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Khadafy
U.S
Wheelus Field
Con
Ferees
Boumedienne
Taha Jazrawi
Ahmed Hassan Bakr
Revolutionary Command Council
Baghdad
Abu Iyad
el Fatah
Sadat
States
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Syria
Algeria
South Yemen
PLO
George Habash
Po Front
Habash
Palestine
Central Council
Damascus
Egypt
United States
Soviet Union
Funds Run Out Over Abortion Funding Deadlock
HEW and Labor lack funds as Congress stalls over abortion policy in a $61 billion package. Senate fights support funding except to save the mother’s life, while the House seeks stricter limits. Paychecks for about 150,000 federal workers hang in the balance as resolutions stall.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Departments of Labor
Health, Education and Welfare
Senate
House
Edward Brooke
R-Mass
Brooke
HEW
Treasury Department
Labor Department
Panel Favors More U.S. Judges
The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill to create 110 new district court judgeships and 35 new circuit court positions. It urged merit based nominations, but sponsors warned the Senate may resist expanding patronage in federal races.
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Ira R. Allen Washington
UPI
Carter
U.S
Romano Mazzoli
Oky
Senate
House
Jack
Brooks
D-Tex
Rep
Thomas
Kindness
Ohio
GOP Leader Backs Tax Cut Proposal
Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker pledged solid GOP support for President Carter's plan for a substantial tax cut next year. Carter said Democrats promise rapid action on cuts of 20 to 22 billion dollars, mostly to individuals, with the rest to businesses. Baker praised the proposal and said Republicans will work with Carter to push an adequate and early tax cut.
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Steve Gerstel Washington
UPI
Senate
Howard Baker
Carter
Congress
Baker
Jim
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