Sun Day champions urge solar energy as major future power
The piece praises Sun Day demonstrations urging solar use and cites government goals for 10 to 25 percent of U.S. energy from the sun by 2000. It argues solar energy is free, clean, and inexhaustible, with high initial costs offset by long term savings and reduced reliance on coal and oil. It calls for federal support and private investment.
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Carter
Council On Environmental Quality
United States
U.S. Department of Energy
Council
Veterans caucus seeks more aid for Vietnam era veterans
A group of congressmen who served in the armed forces during the Vietnam era formed a caucus to push for substantive programs and symbolic gestures for less fortunate veterans. They met with VA chief Max Cleland and White House aide Stu Eizenstat to urge a study and increased VA benefits.
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Veterans’ Administration
Max Cleland
White House
Stu Eizenstat
State aid urged for gym annex protest costs
The Kent State University and Portage County pleas ask the State Emergency Board to cover part of last year’s gym annex protest expenses. Estimated total 830000 dollars for law enforcement and judicial work faces local taxpayers. County share 87000 dollars, straining funds. Kent State finances are tight. The issue ties to 1970s campus shootings and state responsibility. The university and county seek state help in this financial emergency.
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Kent State
Portage County
KSU
Ohio
National Guard
Kent- Ravenna Record-Courier
Supreme Court likely to rule on Bakke affirmative action case
In the Bakke suit Allan Bakke challenges UC Davis medical school quotas favoring minority applicants. The case tests whether government programs to aid minorities amount to reverse discrimination and whether such quotas can stand constitutionally. The Court faces a record number of amicus briefs and may issue a landmark ruling within two months.
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Benjamin Shore Washington
CNS
U.S. Supreme Court
Bakke
Allan Bakke
University of California At Davis
Supreme Court
Amicus Curiae
Supreme Court Justices Tackle Bakke Case in Private Deliberations
The article notes nine justices work privately with law clerks to decide the UC Davis Bakke case, with briefs from diverse groups and limited public debate. Waxman and Hoy advocate perspectives on affirmative action, while deliberations remain mostly private and nonconfrontational.
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Uc-Davis
Yard Sale Season Warns Buyers to Watch for Duplicates
Washington report notes spring yard signs sprouting nationwide as economy hints at a banner season for yard sales. The columnist warns buyers to beware of repeats and flimsy bargains, noting items circulating between neighbor sales and the risk of purchasing used goods not properly aged.
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Elrood Bangleshake
Yard sale ruse exposes fake castoffs and stork
A neighbor admits he ordered items from a yard sale catalog to make his sale look authentic. The narrator finds a life sized ceramic stork labeled Yard Sales Inc Rampant West Virginia claiming fine pseudo castoffs since 1973 and imagines uses beyond display.
Italy faces threats as communists gain power and paralyze security
The New York Times essay by In dro Montanelli accuses the Italian Communist Party of sabotaging state institutions and aiding Red Brigades violence. He argues that Christian Democrats enabled this through conceded oversight, inviting dictatorship and undermining democratic norms. He cites his own injuries and warns of legalized terror if a Communist regime rises.
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CNS
New York Times
Indro Montanelli
Milan
Il Giornale Nuovo
Communist Party
Italy
Tas
Christian Democrats
Montanelli
Weathermen Terror Group Ties to Castro Backed Plot
A newspaper report notes arraignment of three top FBI officials for approving warrantless surveillance on Weathermen in the sixties. The editorial page supports a Senate warrantless surveillance bill, warning of growing terrorism as the Red Brigades loom. The Weathermen are described as a terrorist group financed by Castro’s Cuba, not mere antiwar activists.
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Red Brigades
Italy
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New York
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Carter
Griffin Bell
David Marston
Edward M. Kennedy
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House of Representatives
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