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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1978
Page
1
Washington reports the first quarterly drop in U.S. economic output in three years as Commerce Department data show reduced spending by businesses and consumers, signaling less growth and potential job impact.
House Ways and Means Committee approved a measure letting standard deduction filers claim a charitable contribution deduction, potentially costing up to $4 billion annually. The panel also kept a 3 percent floor for medical deductions and rejected a Carter tax plan change on medicare and casualty deductions.
Searchers failed to locate Aldo Moro after dynamiting Lake Duchessa and draining a quarry near Corvaro, while Red Brigades ruse theories swirl. Divers, dogs and hundreds scoured snowbound lakes and forests six miles from the lake as officials doubt the authenticity of a terror group communique.
France Soir reports an experimental neutron bomb was exploded at Mururoa Atoll. A senior officer allegedly says the test is a large scale lab study with three to four years needed to solve electronic issues and consider deployment. Giscard d Estaing may approve further development. government denies confirmation.
The Senate narrowly approves the Panama Canal treaties 68 to 32 in a major foreign policy win for President Carter. The second treaty sets terms to relinquish the canal by 2000 with U S use of force to keep it open while respecting Panama’s sovereignty. Political fallout points to campaign impact in November.
Senate approves the treaty by a 68 to 32 vote turning over U S control of the Panama Canal. Democratic yes votes include Abourezk Anderson Bayh Biden Bumpers Byrd Church Clark Cranston Culver DeConcini Durkin Eagleton Glenn Gravel Hart Haskell Hatfield Hathaway Hodges Hollings Huddleston Humphrey Inouye Jackson Kennedy Leahy Magnuson Matsunaga McGovern McIntyre Metzenbaum Morgan Moynihan Muskie Nelson Nunn Pell Proxmire Ribicoff Riegle Sarbanes Sasser Sparkman Stevenson Stone Talmadge Williams. Republican yes votes include Baker Bellman Brooke Case Chafee Danforth Hayakawa Heinz Javits Mathias Packwood Pearson Percy Stafford Weicker. No votes from Democrats Allen Burdick Byrd Eastland Ford Johnston Melcher Randolph Stennis Zorinsky and Republicans Bartlett Curtis Dole Domenici Garn Goldwater Griffin Hansen Hatch Laxalt Sugar McClure Roth Schmitt Schweiker Scott Stevens Thurmond Tower Wallop Young.
The Warren County Board of Supervisors and the Thunderbird Developers forged a significant agreement last night. Details appear on the Area News Page with accompanying photos.
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