Arizona lawmaker calls CAP fund cut a Carter ploy
Rep. Frank Kelley accuses President Carter of withholding CAP and 18 water projects to trade for support of a national health insurance plan. He predicts reinstatement in 17 states as a political bargain and warns of broader tax practices and education funding reform.
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Carter
Central Arizona
Arizona House of Representatives
William C. Jenkins
Citizens
Frank Kelley
R-Dist
Kelley
Hunt reveals CIA payouts to Uruguay Mexico Japan
Former Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt claimed he funded several governments while serving as a CIA station chief and compared payments to Jordan's regime. He faulted Richard Nixon for Watergate, calling it a tragedy and stating the payments were an CIA subsidy rather than bribes. He described Nixon as a tragic, weak leader and said the break in was a White House approved activity.
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Brookline
Mass
E. Howard Hunt
CIA
Uruguay
Mexico
Japan
Hussein
Jordan
Hunt
Richard M. Nixon
Boston
Nixon
Democratic National
Democratic
Watergate Complex
Washington
D.C
White House
City workers haul tumbleweeds after wind storm cleanup
City streets crews led by driver Robert Dominguez and Carlos Ramirez collected tumbleweeds in an alley near Hayden Road. Spokesman Jerry McLain said residents should pile weeds along the access road and curbside for crushing and loading onto city trucks. Sweeper crews will finish the cleanup later today.
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Robert Dominguez
Carlos Ramirez
Hayden Road
City Streets Department
Jerry McLain
McLain
Navajo Tribal Chairman Pleads Innocent in Fraud Case
Navajo Tribal Chairman Peter MacDonald, 48, pleaded innocent to eight felony counts of mail fraud and filing a false income tax return. U.S. Magistrate Richard Gormley set a March 17 trial date before Judge Walter E. Craig and allowed release on recognizance. Co- accused William Moore named in indictment alleging false travel vouchers for Tucson Gas & Electric Co. charter flights in 1973.
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Phoenix
Peter MacDonald
MacDonald
U.S
Richard Gormley
U.S. District Court
Walter E. Craig
Gormley
William Moore
Tucson Gas & Electric Co
Moore
Gallup
N.M
Craig
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Goldwater
Gregory Craig
Grievance to be filed over book removal at Arcadia High
Arcadia High School English chair George Cowie plans a grievance Friday over procedure in removing The Harrad Experiment from the Paperback Power course. He says the three member review committee lacked information and copies of objections and responses. The grievance goes to principal Willard Bandes with possible appeals to Dr. Philip Gates and then Superintendent William Randall.
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Arcadia High School
George Cowie
William Randall
Cowie
Randall
Willard Bandes
Arcadia
Philip Gates
Scottsdale plans to reduce city to five departments
City Manager Franklin D. Aleshire proposes a five department structure by merging general services and parks into a community services department and folding the finance unit into management services. Public safety and community development stay. The plan aims for long term savings with no layoffs, though some promotions and title changes occur.
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Scottsdale
Franklin D. Aleshire
Aleshire
General Services
Parks and Recreation Departments
Community Services Department
Finance Department
Management Services Department
Public ‘Safety and Community Development
Arizona State University Management
William Reif
L.B. Spacewater
Richard Brown
Parks and Recreation
Scacewater
Brown
Aldshire
David Harris
Carl Darden
James Jenkins
Spacewater
Hugh Cleary
Harris
Jerryeabn
Field Operations Department
Management Services
Community Services
Fie
Right Wing Threat Targets Spain’s Prime Minister
Spain’s premier Adolfo Suarez faced threats of assassination in Madrid amid a government crackdown on militant rightists. Barcelona papers cite calls from the Anti- Communist Apostolic Alliance claiming responsibility for last month’s machine-gun killings of five Communists.
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Madrid
Spain
Adolfo Suarez
Barcelona
Diario de Barcelona
Mundo Diario
Apostolic Alliance
Flood Threat From Ice Jams Hits Western New York
Buffalo area faces flash flood watch as six streams near overflow amid warm temps and more rain. National Weather Service warns ice jams may worsen floods in snow packed western New York.
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New York
California
Buffalo
National Weather Service
Congress backs tax cuts and spending hikes to boost economy
In Washington both chambers vote to amend the budget for the current year to enable tax reductions and higher spending, though no specific plan is set. In San Francisco a new pollution cleanup rule wins tentative support from city groups and the Sierra Club as EPA studies its implementation.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
San Francisco
Environmental Protection Agency
California League of Cities
The
Sierra Club
EPA
Story
Officials Die In Harrisburg Plane Crash At Home
A twin engine state plane crashed into a Harrisburg suburb home and exploded killing Pennsylvania’s state Republican chairman the transportation secretary and seven others. Police said eight aboard died and a ninth victim was the house resident.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Rabin Urges Unity After Narrow Labor Victory
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, re elected leader of the Labor party by 41 votes, called for unity to confront the party’s toughest election test. Forecaster notes increasing clouds and wind with a slight chance of showers and cooler temperatures. Highs near 70 today, upper 60s Friday, lows around 50, and precipitation odds 10 to 20 percent.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
Labor Party
Unity
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