Carter's Tax Cut Case Headed to Senate Finance Panel
The Carter administration pushes its tax cut plan to the Senate Finance Committee after a House defeat. Treasury Secretary Blumenthal testifies on potential changes as the panel weighs a bill offering about 16.3 billion in cuts, with politics and capital gains relief shaping the talks.
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Washington
Carter
House
Senate Finance Committee
Finance Committee
Treasury
W. Michael Blumenthal
Russell B. Long
D-La
Clarke Fair Opens as Raritan Fair Returns
Clarke Compass reviews the start of the annual Raritan Fair and its longstanding participants. A 1940 will funds a Frederick County medical center and notes 358 acres mined for sand by Unisil Corp in the county.
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Clarke Compass
MBO
Lannders
Frederick County
Unisil Corp
New Mexican Balloonists Aim for Paris Landing After Atlantic Crossing
Three Albuquerque men Larry Newman Ben Abruzzo and Maxie Anderson fly the Double Eagle II across the Atlantic to Paris area expected to land near Le Bourget Airport in the evening after a record crossing. They traveled 121 hours and are monitored by British air authorities.
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Dorset
England
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Larry Newman
Maxie Anderson
Ben Abruzzo
London
English Channel
Paris
Cherbourg
Brian Smith
Britain
Civil Aviation Authority
Newman
le Bourget
Charles Lindbergh
Atlantic
Shannon
Ireland
Presque Isle
Maine
Donald Cameron
Christopher Davies
St. George’s Channel
Wales
Coast Guard
Bristol Channel
le Havre
Jim Mitchell
Abruzzo
Pat
London Hilton
Luton Airport
Mrs. Abruzzo
Memphis Teachers Refuse to Cross Picket Lines on School Start
Memphis educators vow not to cross striking police and firefighters outside schools as the new term opens. Police and firefighter unions conduct pickets. city seeks contempt rulings. guardsmen assist in patrols amid wage dispute talks.
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Memphis, Tenn
Lorene Osborne
Memphis Education Association
Memphis Labor Council
Council
Tommy Powell
Cliff Pierce
Chancery Court
Pierce
Graceland Mansion
Elvis Presley
Wyeth Chandler
National Guardsmen
Powell
Thompson
Chandler
City Hall
Richard David Hyder
Panel Probes Truth in Ray King Assassination Account
House Assassinations Committee pressed James Earl Ray on discrepancies in his story about Travel with a mystery man Raoul and the .30-06 rifle used to kill Martin Luther King Jr. Ray denied handling the rifle as Raoul allegedly did while Stokes questioned missing FBI references to Raoul.
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James Earl Ray
House
Washington
Raoul
Ray
Louis Stokes
Ohio
FBI
Martin Luther King Jr
Stokes
King
Memphis
Tenn
Birmingham
Ala
Jim
Montreal
Carter to Veto Defense Bill Over Nuclear Carrier Plan
President Carter decided to veto the 37 billion defense authorization bill because it funds a new 2 billion nuclear aircraft carrier he opposes. He aims to redirect funds to bolster conventional forces in Europe and will announce the decision after a White House meeting with lawmakers.
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Washington
Carter
Edward P. Boland
D-Mass
House
White House
Congress
Europe
Thomas P. O'Neill
O'Neill
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
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John
Greenland
Atlantic Ocean
Iceland
British Isles
Franci
Spain
Miles
Russell Thompson
Associated Press
Wenders, Inc
Mexico
Committee
Missouri
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