Aborting an Amendment Debate in Congress on Four Life Amendments
The Times reports a campaign in Congress for four "human life" constitutional amendments to ban abortion and restrict contraception. It notes prior rider successes in Medicaid, foreign aid, and legal aid bills and cites New York’s abortion law as reducing deaths and hospitalizations, arguing constitutional bans would create a class-based double standard.
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United States Supreme Court
Congress
Legal Services Corporation
New York
Opening the Gold Box
The Wall Street Journal notes that by year end US citizens may own gold as a long-standing ban is set to be lifted. Treasury and Congress push forward with strong support from William Simon, while debate centers on a Sept. 1 versus Dec. 31 effective date and the long debate over economic costs of prohibition.
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U.S
Congress
Senate
House Banking Committee
House
Treasury
William Simon
House Banking
Charles Stahl
Green
House Banking Committees
Stahl
Jones
Smith
Simon
Crane
I.D.A
Republc
South Vietnam
Chile
Republic of China
Taiwan
International Monetary Fund
United Nations
India
Iowa
H.R. Gross
Robert Strange McNamara
World Bank
McNamara
Bleeding Heart
Gross
Indira Gandhi
State Must Do Better Richmond Times-Dispatch Disgraceful report on Virginia fields
The State Crime Commission scolds 14 of 31 correctional field units for mixing serious offenders with minor misdemeanants. It cites escapes, poor medical care, and idle regimes, urging classification reforms, work and education opportunities, improved guard training and pay, and dignity for inmates to aid rehabilitation. The report warns many camps are not fit for human rehabilitation and calls for closure or fixes, with funding justified by eventual societal safety gains.
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Virginia
State Crime Commission
Crime Commission
Israel's Lebanon Revenge Sparks U S Anger
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak report U S officials were astonished and outraged by Israel's raid campaign in Lebanon after Palestinian guerrilla bases were attacked. No warning was given to President Nixon during his Israel visit as raids continued, risking peace efforts in the region.
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Washington
U.S
Israel
Mideast
Nixon
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Syria
Hafez Assad
Henry Kissinger
Itzhak Rabin
Labor Party
Rabin
Likud
Nixon White House
Lebanon
Middle East
I D A Loan Fight Folds Into Capitol Hill Bargain
Washington lobbyists press to revive a 1.5 billion U.S. contribution to the International Development Association after a January rebuff. The White House State Department Treasury and I D A seek to win Republican votes via concessions on gold ownership and funding to non Communist nations.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
House
United States
International Development Association
Asia
Africa
White House
State Department
The
Treasury
I.D.A
World Bank
Republican Steering Committee
Frederick County News Bits From The Star Files 1964
Bill Duncan and Red Royston caught several stringers of fish at an Eastern shore pond before 7 a.m. Frederick County gains its first full time dog warden. Enrollment applications for the School of Practical Nursing at Winchester Memorial Hospital for a September class. Potatoes are plentiful for farmers and provided free for livestock upon request via the county agent. Handley Trustees receive 26 577 dollars to add to a one million dollar fund for Handley school operations.
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Bill Duncan
Red Royston
Frederick County
School of Practical Nursing
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Winchester
Frederick
Clarke
Warren
Handley
Handley School
Atmospheric Test Rockets Delayed by Weather Across East Coast
NASA postponed 54 atmospheric rocket launches from June 15 to Thursday due to weather concerns. A preliminary night shot at 9 10 p m EDT remains contingent on a 3 30 p m briefing as cloud cover shifts over Virginia and North Carolina.
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Wallops Island
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Virginia
North Carolina
Wallace's Ben Hur Evolves From Agnostic Draft
Lew Wallace began a secular portrait of Jesus at the urging of Robert Ingersoll. The more he studied, the more he concluded Jesus was a divine figure, producing the famed novel Ben Hur which later inspired a classic film.
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Robert Ingersoll
Lew Wallace
Christ
Wallace
Ingersoll
Jesus
God
Capitol Commentary Great Seal of Virginia To Get Proper Display
Richmond AP reports Gov. Mills Godwin will isolate and highlight a brass four foot Great Seal of Virginia replica embedded in the Capitol floor to improve visitor awareness. The piece traces back to 1776 with multiple variants and a 1903 alteration claiming the central figure is female.
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Virginia
Gov. Mills Godwin
Capitol
Libertas
Aeternitas
Ceres
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Richmond
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By Rowland Evans
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France
By Frank van der Linden
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the Treasury
Philip M. Crane
Illinois
Ben Blackburn
Georgia
Edwin J. Fuelner Jr
Moshe Dayan
Abba Eban
Golda Meir
Shulamit Aloni
John Lubbock
Star Files
Ben Hua
George W. Wilbur
Associated Press
Mr. Jefferson
Seattle
Godwin
State of Washington
Winchester Evening Star
Thomas T Byrd
Lewis H. Ebert
Douglas B. Oconnell
Eugene P. Miller
Winchester Va
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