Carter translation gaffes strain Polish goodwill visit
Polish leader Edward Gierek joked about Carter interpreter mistranslations that caused red faces among officials. Journalists said Poles were insulted by errors ranging from sexual misinterpretations to misrendered dates. UPI reports Powell pledged a new translator as reaction broadens.
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UPI
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Carter
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Stephen Seymour
Washington
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Interpress
Carter administration proposes guidance to aid minority hiring
The Carter administration unveiled new guidelines for employee testing to promote voluntary hiring and promotion of minorities and women. The rules would shield employers from civil rights suits if they show sufficient job opportunities for these groups. Public comment is open until March 1. The guidance suggests alternatives to intelligence tests and weighs experience and language ability, amid potential reverse-discrimination challenges.
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Monday Holiday Closes Tucson City and State Offices
Most Tucsonans extend New Year holiday through Monday as offices including post offices are closed. Only express mail will be delivered. City garbage collection shifts one day later all week. Tucson Transit runs Sunday schedule Monday. Vehicle inspection stations also close.
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SCA Services of Arizona Inc
Tucson Transit Corp
Mitchell returns to Washington as patient seeks hip surgery
John Mitchell 64 once Nixon era attorney general now in Washington as a prisoner on medical furlough faces possible hip replacement. He will undergo tests at Georgetown University Hospital to decide on surgery with recovery spanning weeks before returning to Maxwell Air Force Base prison camp in Alabama by January 15.
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Allan Bakke
University of California Medical School At
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Washington
UPI
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Wall Street
Richard Nixon
Mitchell
Georgetown University Hospital
Maxwell Air Force Base
Alabama
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Washington Redskins
Federal Prison Medical Center
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Nixon
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H.R. Haldeman
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Haldeman
Two men plead to婚 immigration marriage scheme in New Hampshire
In Concord two Manchester men Nicolaos Koustas 39 and Antionios Tsiboulis 39 pleaded guilty in U S District Court to arranging marriages in name only to obtain residence visas for Greek aliens. Bail set at 1000 dollars each. Mitchell freed from prison for medical evaluation.
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Concord
N.H
API
U.S
Nicolaos Koustas
Antionios Tsiboulis
Manchester
Mysterious gamma ray burst puzzles scientists worldwide
A January 28 1976 gamma ray burst released immense energy in seconds without visible explosion, prompting theories from birth of a white dwarf to star death into black holes. Observations from Vela Helios Ariel 5 mapped the event, yet its location remains uncertain.
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Washington
Earth
Milky Way
Thomas Cline
Goddard Space Flight Center
Vela
Helios
Moon
Builders predict price rise in home market
Catalina Savings president Floyd Sed-Imayr says a rise from 8 34 percent to 9 percent on a $350 000 two year mortgage isn t devastating as payments rise by about 1800 but stay under six dollars monthly. Estes Co executive VP James Shedd warns higher rates will dampen construction and push prices up seven to nine percent next year as material costs climb.
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Floyd Sed- Imayr
Catalina Savings & Loan Association
James Shedd
The
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Shedd
Estes
California highways turn into public art galleries
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Sr launches a highway art program to humanize 15000 miles of freeways, using works by John Betts Maren Hassinger and Marshall Kline. The effort aims to employ artists and involve communities, funded by sponsors or grants, with three proposals in consideration for Los Angeles and Harbor Freeway supports.
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Los Angeles
Maren Hassinger
Hollywood
Marshall Kline
Lake Powell
Edmund G. Brown Sr
California
Brown
California Department of Transportation
Department
Adana Gianturco
Betts
Lake Tahoe
Hassinger
Kline
Harbor
Despoiling Grave Brings Jail Term
In Carlisle England three opponents of blood sports were jailed nine months each for desecrating John Peel’s 9th century grave in Caldbeck. They toppled the headstone dug a three foot grave slot and placed a fox head with a poem claiming vengeance for Peel’s fox hunts.
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England
John Peel
Peel
Caldbeck
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