House Bill Splits Economic and Military Aid Debate
The House International Relations Committee approved an economic aid bill separate from military aid, signaling a shift supported by the Ford administration. The measure would authorize $1.35 billion for current needs and $1.52 billion for fiscal 1976, with provisions to forgive loan paybacks for new programs, mainly to boost agricultural development in poorer nations.
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Europe
International Relations Committee
House
Congress
House Committee
Agency For International Development
Thomas E. Morgan
House International Relations Committee
Morgan
Ford Administration
Kissinger
Middle East Review
J.W. Fulbright
Fulbright
Clement J. Zablocki
D-Wisc
Donald M. Fraser
D-Minn
Charles W. Whalen Jr
Ohio
Governor asks review of electricity costs study plan
Gov. Mills Godwin asks a joint legislative committee led by Sen. J. Harry Michael Jr. to review the Electricity Costs Commission recommendations. He says the committee should determine study requirements and possible legislative action to ease consumer burden amid rising electricity costs.
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State Corporation Commission
Roanoke Gas Co
SCC
Roanoke Gas
Roanoke
Central Telephone Co
Virginia
Charlottesville
Jean Packard
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
Mills Godwin
Northern Virginia
FPC
Apco
AEP
Roanoke Times
Appalachian
Review Commission
Electricity Costs Commission
Chaiirman
J. Harry Michael Jr
Confederate Hero Returns to Southern Soil
A Confederate hero Maj. Gen. Bushrod Rust Johnson will be moved from an obscure Yankee grave to Nashville Tennessee where he will be reburied with honors. Noble Wyatt a Son of the Confederacy arranged permission from Johnson’s heirs and oversaw exhumation from Miles Prairie Illinois. Johnson served at Chickamauga and followed Lee to Appomattox and died in 1880 after moving to Miles Station.
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Southern
Aston, Ill
Noble Wyatt
Bushrod Rust Johnson
Nashville, Tenn
Wyatt
Dixie
Johnson
Miles Prairie
Alton
Ohio
Nashville
Western Military Institute
Chickamauga
Lee
Appomattox
St. Louis
Miles Station
Old City
Weather today and extended outlook for Northern Valley and Virginia
Northern Valley is mostly cloudy and cool tonight with lows around 60. Friday brings fair skies with highs in the mid 70s to around 80. Virginia sees mostly cloudy conditions tonight with a chance of showers or thunderstorms in the southeast and fair elsewhere Friday. lows range from the 50s in the mountains to near 70 along the coast, with Friday highs in the 70s west to low 80s east. The extended outlook Saturday through Monday is fair with a warming trend, highs mid to upper 80s and lows mid to upper 60s. Noon high today 71, yesterday 73. sunset 8:19 p.m.. sunrise 6:18 a.m.. first quarter moon August 13.
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Virginia
Rainfall totals and historical averages for regional climate
Rainfall data from the past 24 hours ending 8:30 a.m. shows August total of .54 inches, and year to date figures: 1975 30.35 inches. Long term averages include 62 year annual average 36.76 inches and monthly means. highest 53.02 inches in 1972 and lowest 17.15 inches in 1930. A future note projects rising energy use in the United States over the next three decades.
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United States
Israeli commandos raze house in Lebanon as border fighting continues
Israeli commandos demolished a house in Hanine village and searched Talloussa across the Lebanon border amid a 20 minute artillery exchange. Beirut and Tel Aviv issued differing casualty accounts while Palestine guerrillas and Saudi hints of nuclear energy touches add regional tension.
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Talloussa
Tel Aviv
Galilee
Lebanese Defense Ministry
Beirut
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Defense
Shimon Peres
Labor Party
Middle East
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Libya
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Charles E. Markle, JR
Bertha B. Marston
William Owens
Walter Chrisman, JR
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Bernard F. Groves
Winchester
Bob Donnelly
Omps Funeral Home
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Christianson
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