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...House also approves a $250-a-year tuition tax credit proposal, the tax bill will face almost sure veto from the White House. Presidential press secretary Jody Powell said that people making $50,000 or more a year would receive one-fourth of the reductions under the combined bills...
...height of the two-year Western drought, youngsters skateboarded on the dry concrete bed of the Los Angeles River. Shasta Lake receded to less than one-fourth its normal size, stranding boats on the rocky bottom. Folsom Lake, usually 260 ft. deep, was a virtual mud flat. The normally roaring Stanislaus River near Sacramento turned into a trickle. Kent reservoir serving Marin County dropped by more than a third of its usual level. Warned Richard Felch of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: "We've got a good chance of another dust bowl...
...particularly since Carter had singled out Slepak by name as a cause for personal concern during his 1976 election campaign. What is more, when Carter spoke last week to a Washington gathering of 26 foreign ministers from the Organization of American States, the issue of human rights took up one-fourth of his 20-minute address. Though Carter was obviously referring to violations in Latin America, his warning that "there are costs to the flagrant disregard of international standards" was presumably meant to be heard in Moscow as well...
...trend in the presidential balloting was becoming apparent. In his attempt to win an unprecedented fourth term, Dominican Republic President Joaquin Balaguer was slipping further behind his principal challenger, Antonio Guzmán of the Dominican Revolutionary Party. By 4 a.m. on the day after the election, with about one-fourth of the ballots counted, Guzmán was leading...
...wealth, Saudi Arabia is a very vulnerable nation. Though it is one-fourth the size of the U.S. and has a 1,560-mile-long coastline, its population is generally estimated at only about 5 million.* Now, for practically the first time in their history, the Saudis have something worth defending. As Saudi government officials never tire of saying, their country is virtually unprotected. It is probably true that never has so much been defended by so little...