Supreme Court Term Faces Broad Civil Rights and Other Key Issues
Civil rights topics color the term with cases on affirmative action in Bakke style admissions, student expulsions, tribal membership rules, pregnancy related leave, age discrimination, and press freedom. Other matters include Nixon tapes, search warrant standards, and two major murder cases.
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Supreme Court
Congressional Quarterly
Washington
Allan Bakke
University of California At Davis
Carter
TRIBE
Court of Appeals
Congress
Harris McMann
United Air Lines
Nixon
Idaho
Labor Department
Ohio
Jeffrey R. MacDonald
MacDonald
Senate filibuster blocks natural gas deregulation bill progress
Opinion urges end to obstruction as nearly 300 amendments stall the natural gas deregulation bill. Calls for House-Senate conference to reconcile with the Carter energy plan and favor free market principles for prices and supply expansion.
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Senate
Carter
Metzenbaum
Abourezk
House of
Representatives
House
U.S
House-Senate
Winchester Planning Commission Hearing On Amherst Street Rezoning
The Amherst Street rezoning case highlights volunteer planning members serving four year terms as they face scheduling issues and a postponed public hearing. The Rt. 50 project shapes future highway entrances and north side development plans for a shopping center. The rescheduled hearing is Oct 20 at 7 30 p m in Council Chambers.
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Public Safety Committee
Winchester
Winchester Planning Commission
Amherst Street
Planning Commission
City Council
Rt. 50
Council
Rouss City Hall
President Carter Wins Respect
The piece notes Carter’s frequent press conferences and candor during a tough nine months in the White House. It highlights his energy policy push, clashes with Congress, and broad travel plans while questioning his judgment and ability to prioritize amid multiple global and domestic crises.
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ISO
NY Times
Washington
Carter
Jimmy Short
White House
Jimmy Carter
Bert Lance
New York
United Nations
Henry Howell
Virginia
New York City
Edward Koch
Latin America
Africa
Europe
Asia
Middle East
Congress
Panama
UAW Honors Soviet Trade Unionists Amid Dissident Snub
UAW leaders hosted four Soviet trade unionists at Solidarity House in Detroit after shelving a meeting with dissident Leonid Plyushch. The move underscores a rift with AFL-CIO chief Meany and signals broader tensions over Soviet labor contacts during a strained Cold War era.
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Washington
United Auto Workers
UAW
Soviet Union
Solidarity House
Detroit
Leonid Plyushch
Plyushch
Paris
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Auto Union
Carter
Meany
KGB
U.S
Chicago
Andrei Gatsenko
Sadlowski
Republic Steel Co
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
New York
Emil Nazey
Voter registration deadlines and registrar hours listed
The notice urges registration by Oct 8 for the Nov 8 general election. It lists area registrars in Winchester Freder ick County Clarke County Warren County with addresses hours and contact numbers including special Oct 3 and Oct 7 8 election hours.
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The
Star
Winchester
Martha Grim
Rouss City Hall
Boscawen Street
Frederick County
Mary Gay Eisner
Court Square
Clarke County
Barbara Jones
Church St
Berryville
Warren County
Nina Retlinger
Main Street
Front Royal
Royal Plaza
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Pueblo
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Norfolk
Virginia Pilot
State Judicial Review Commission
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M. Nixon
the Star
Winchester Evening Star
Thomas T. Byrd
Roy E. Potts III
Lewis H. Ebert
Eugene P. Miller
Edward P. Offley
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Kent St
Wire
United States
Labor
Trade Unions For Action and Democracy
TUAD
U.S. Communist Party
Ed Sadlowski
Ukraine
Russia
Emil Mazey
Evans Novak
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