Senate panel would tilt Social Security tax burden
The Senate Finance Committee voted to raise Social Security taxes more on employers than workers, increasing the employer share to 7.035 percent on the first $100,000 earned by each worker by 1979 and lifting later with inflation. Workers would face 7.035 percent on the first $33,900 by 1987. The plan also raises the earnings limit for full benefits to $6,000 by 1979 and to $4,500 next year for recipients.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Bis
House
Ways and Means
Senate
Carl Curtis
R-Neb
Curtis
Carter
Senate votes to require pregnancy benefits in disability plans
The Senate approved a bill to require employers to include pregnancy benefits in all workers disability plans. The measure, 75 to 11, aims to shield pregnant workers from losing jobs and to address a 1976 Supreme Court ruling. It would amend the Civil Rights Act and parallels action in the House. The bill covers maternity leave and related medical costs though abortion coverage is not mandated.
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Senate
House
Supreme Court
General Electric Co
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Harrison Williams
D-N.j
Thomas Eagleton
D-Mo
Rainy Weather Eases Central New York Hard Hit By Showers
Relief for Central New York residents as the National Weather Service lowered rain chances to 20 percent tonight and 40 percent tomorrow. Overnight lows near 60 with clouds, while eastern New York continued to soak under steady showers. Windsor and Cortland led heavy totals around 2.6 and 2.56 inches with other areas cited. flash flood watches previously in effect for central and western New York and the Southern Tier remained without serious flooding reports.
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National Weather Service
Albany
New York
Southern Tier
Windsor
Binghamton
Cortland
Lisle
Cooperstown
New Berlin
Neighbor Quips About Short Vacation Amid Housework
A light exchange arises during a busy day of painting a house and washing windows between neighbors. One quip reframes a two week vacation as modest compared with a three week stretch, prompting a playful moment amid chores.
Lance defends bank practices amid political debts
Bert Lance told a Senate committee he did nothing improper in the Calhoun bank dealings used to support his 1974 Georgia governor campaign. He said in retrospect he would have made the arrangement more arms-length while addressing questions about bank-owned aircraft and possible federal law violations.
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Washington
Bert Lance
Calhoun, Ga
Senate
Georgia
Lance
Clark Clifford
Justice Department
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Clifford
Jacob K. Javits
R-N-Y
Calhoun Bank
Moynihan presses inquiry into New York economy impact
Senator Moynihan released a Carter letter acknowledging his concerns about federal programs draining New York's economy. He pledged to hire New York researchers from Syracuse, Rochester, Columbia, and Russell Sage to determine whether the federal government depletes state resources and to press on with the inquiry despite potential government resistance.
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Washington
Carter
New York State
Daniel P. Moynihan
Dn.y
Moynihan
New York
Maxwell School of Public Affairs
Syracuse
University of Rochester
Conservation of Human Resources Project
Columbia University
Russell Sage Foundation
New York City
Telephone pacts ratified in New York workers strike
In New York, threats of a communications workers strike against New York Telephone Co. ended with ratification of national and local contracts and settlement of wording disputes. Communications Workers of America vice president Morton Bakr announced the accords after mediating differences over an oral agreement reached August 13 by local negotiators, concluding a seven hour statewide strike.
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NEW York
New York Telephone Co
Communications Workers of America
Morton Bakr
New York Remains Nation's Business HQ with 229 Leading Firms
New York State again served as the nation's business headquarters last year with 229 leading U S firms basing operations. Of these 229, 189 had main offices in New York City and 22 in a 10 county NYC area. The Fortune survey shows 172 firms or 17 percent of the top 1 000 are in New York State, with state firms totaling 286 billion dollars in sales.
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New York State
Commerce Department
New York City
Fortune
Monroe
Onondaga
Erie County
Chautauqua
Montgomery
Niagara
Seneca, Steuben and
Yates
Illinois
New York
Blackmail probe on Panama Canal talks expands
Senate investigators press an inquiry into eavesdropping and blackmail linked to Panama Canal treaty talks. CIA chief Turner and negotiator Sol Linowitz are to testify in a closed session, with other intelligence figures called as Sen. Daniel Inouye says the panel probes the origin of the report and Panama's Torrijos complaints of tapped lines.
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Washington
U.S
Senate
Adm
Stansfield Turner
CIA
Sol Linowitz
Senate Intelligence Committee
Sen
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Panama
Omar Torrijos
Bride runs over husband after wedding reception
Rotterdam AP reports a newlywed woman struck and killed her husband Louis Kenison 23 of Schenectady after he exited a car at an intersection shortly after 1 am. Police charged his widow Joan Kenison 21 with driving while intoxicated and the case remained under investigation, with the bride hospitalized for shock.
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Louis, Kenison
Schenectady
Joan
District Attorney
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