Automakers Attack Carter Gas Guzzler Tax At Senate Hearing
Chrysler Ford and General Motors executives argued the proposed gas guzzler tax punishes family transportation, hurts the poor and middle class, and risks unemployment. They said current fleet-mileage standards are sufficient and a fuel tax would unfairly burden certain households.
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Washington
UPD
U.S
Carter
Senate Finance Committee
House
Chrysler
Ford
General Motors
S.L. Terry
Terry
Fred Secrest
Secrest
Agreement reached on canal financing and treaty pacing
U.S. and Panamanian negotiators near final points on a new Panama Canal treaty and likely to initial today. Talks focus on financial terms, land and labor issues, with Panamanian officials pressing for broader control of the canal by 2000 and indirect U.S. aid as a compromise.
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Panama City
Panama
UPI
U.S
Panama Canal
Rodrigo Gonzalez
Omar Torrijos
Plains
White House
Carter
Congress
Washington
Gabriel Lewis Galindo
Canal Zone
Weather forecast for Northwestern California
Fair conditions expected through Thursday with low coastal clouds and fog and only slight temperature changes across the region.
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California
Gas price decontrol plan revived by Carter administration
The Federal Energy Administration proposes lifting gasoline price controls after the summer peak period with hearings planned in seven cities. The report says price drops are unlikely, but allowing prices to reflect refinery investments could raise them slightly. Motor gasoline remains ample through 1979.
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Washington
UPI
Carter Administration
Gerald Ford
Federal Energy Administration
FEA
Ford
Congress
Carter
House
Senate
United States
Mendocino Board Considers Street Vendor Ordinance
Mendocino County board weighs curb on street vendors on public property with a draft ordinance to be introduced next week and a full debate set for August 23. Proposals include location limits licensing and possible reference to the town Historical Review Board while merchants and vendors clash over impact and fairness.
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Mendocino
Board of Supervisors
Rick Henderson
Henderson
John Cimolino
Nathaniel Bingham
Comptche Crab Company
Bingham
Nancy Blum
Mendocino Association of Street Craftsmen
Carol Silver
Ted Galletti
Betty Dostal
Nat Bingham
Bob Raymond
Raymond
Journal
Harris
Inmate Hangs Self in County Jail Cell
A jail inmate awaiting trial on rape charges died by hanging in his cell late this morning. The sheriff’s office offered no comment or release of the inmate’s identity, and no further details were available.
Bulldozers Used in Ventana Fire to Protect Carmel River
Firefighters deploy bulldozers in the Ventana Wilderness to build fire lines for Marble Cone blaze threatening Carmel River watershed. One quarter of the watershed above San Clementa Dam destroyed. officials warn of severe erosion and flood risk. Al West of Los Padres National Forest cites lack of alternatives and extreme emergency.
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United Press International
Ventana
Carmel River
San Clementa
al West
Los Padres National Forest Supervisors
Tax panel could be dissolved over stalled property tax relief
In Sacramento the Senate Assembly committee on property tax relief could be dissolved if no progress is made. Sen. Nicholas Petris said he would disband the six member panel if a compromise seems unlikely. Officials clash over a $2.6 to $3.0 billion budget surplus for 1982-83 and unresolved issues include ending the business inventory tax and alternate tax brackets.
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Roger Smith
Smith
Senate
Carter
House
United States
William Roth
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
W. Michael Blumenthal
Blumenthal
Russell Long
Roth
Long
Sacramento
Petris
Department of Finance
Department
Cliff Allenby
Brown
Amin orders pilots to be ready for impossible mission
In Nairobi, Uganda’s Idi Amin told air force pilots at Entebbe Airport to prepare for an impossible death by own action mission in the near future. He announced new MIG fighter aircraft from the Soviet Union to replace planes lost in prior Israeli raids and a 1976 coup attempt.
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Kenya
UPD
Idi Amin
Radio
Uganda
Amin
Entebbe International
Soviet Union
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