Peanut price support showdown perplexes House panel
Members of the House Agriculture Committee wrestled with a bill to cut peanut price support from 75 to 70 percent of parity, amid disputes over acreage limits and costs. Chairman Poage warned a severe cut could injure growers while others urged adjustments. the session adjourned without a decision as lawmakers quarreled over Georgia versus North Carolina peanuts.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
W.R. Poage
D-Tex
William C. Wampler
Virginia
Frederick Richmond
D-N.y
James P. Johnson
R-Corp
Richmond
Dawson Mathis
Georgia
Southeast
Poage
Charles G. Rose
D-N.c
North Carolina
Police kill two in Soweto riots in South Africa
Police shot and killed two more people in Soweto as black workers boycott white employers in Johannesburg. The violence, part of a broader strike backlash, saw police fire on mobs at homes and roadblocks while attempting to stop workers from reaching jobs. At least 18 dead overall.
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Brian Jeffries
Johannesburg
South Africa
Soweto
South African Press Association
The
Press Association
Carter Draws Applause and Booing on Campaign Trail
Jimmy Carter faces mixed reactions as he campaigns in Des Moines and Seattle. He criticizes President Ford for vetoes and supports a strong military posture with a potential draft resumption. Legionnaires jeer his call for blanket pardons for Selective Service violators. Debates between Carter and Ford proposed in four rounds with format discussions underway.
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Lewis Lord
United Press International
Jimmy Carter
Des Moines
Iowa
Ford
Richard Nixon
Carter
American Legion
Seattle
Legion
Harry Weiss
Vail
Colo
GM to hike prices for 1977 car models
General Motors announces an average 269 dollar rise in suggested retail prices for 1977 cars over 1976. Wholesale prices climb about 216 dollars, about 5.8 percent, with option prices up 6.2 percent. Seville tops increases at 708 dollars. Oldsmobile Starfire gains 23 dollars.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
Thomas Murphy
Murphy
Seville
Pleasant Wednesday Forecast From Hancock Airport
Clear skies prevail tonight with a low in the lower 60s. Tomorrow brings increasing clouds and a chance of showers later in the evening, with a high near 85. Rain chances are 10 percent tonight and 30 percent tomorrow.
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Hancock Airport
Rosselli murder probe widens to CIA Castro links
Senate Intelligence Committee investigates the Rosselli murder and possible ties to CIA plots against Fidel Castro and Cuban counterplots against John F. Kennedy. FBI joins probe after years of police dismissal and new testimony seeks clarity on Castro involvement.
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Daniel F. Gilmore
Washington
UPI
Senate Intelligence Committee
John Rosselli
CIA
Fidel Castro
John F. Kennedy
Gary Hart
D-Colo
Miami
Dade County Public Safety Department
Rosselli
Castro
Kennedy
FBI
Momo Salvatore
Sam
Giancana
Chicago
Senate
Cla Giancana
Justice Department
Edward H. Levi
Edward Morgan
Morgan
U.S. presses North Korea to punish Panmunjom killings
The United States demanded that North Korea punish the soldiers who hacked to death two U.S. Army officers at Panmunjom. North Korea offered to separate Communist and allied guards to prevent further clashes, a proposal the UN command called potentially positive and under study. The U.S. also cited the dispute over pruning a tree as the catalyst for the deadly incident.
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Barry Shlachter
Panmunjom
Korea
United States
North Korea
U.S
United Nations Command
Heroin smugglers use mothballs to deter dogs at Soviet border
Three Americans Paul Brawer Dennis Burn and Gerald Amster admitted attempting to move about 62.8 pounds of heroin worth 3 million from Asia to Europe via the Soviet Union. They used mothballs in luggage but narcotics dogs detected the bulge in a suitcase. If convicted they face three to ten years in labor camps.
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Moscow
Asia
Europe
Soviet Union
Paul
Brawer
Las Vegas
Nev
Dennis R. Burn
Whitestone
Queens
N.Y
Gerald R. Amster
New York City
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