Weather instinct and climate shift spark farmer concerns
A columnist discusses the public fixation on weather and reports on a heat wave in Europe while noting longer springs, shorter growing seasons, and a cooler polar trend. Meteorologist Earle Finckle predicts northern farmers may need to move south as the climate changes, a shift welcomed by southern landholders.
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High Plains
Texas
U.S.A
Europe
British Isles
Scandinavia
Earle S. Finckle
Central Weather Service, Inc
Wheeling
Ill
Chicago
Montgomery Advertiser
Pravda urges mass solidarity with Portuguese Communists
Pravda calls for massive solidarity with Portugal's Communists amid NATO backed opposition. The Observer signed article reflects Kremlin leadership views urging support for the fighting party against reactionary forces inside and outside Portugal. Kissinger had warned the Kremlin ahead of this stance.
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Moscow
UPI
Pravda
U.S
Kremlin
Observer
NATO
Portugal
Communist Party
Henry A. Kissinger
Hightower Criticizes Longshoreman Grain Loading Boycott
Rep. Jack Hightower condemned the longshoremen's refusal to load grain for the Soviet Union. He urged President Ford and Attorney General Levi to take legal action, calling the boycott and foreign policy stance irresponsible.
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Jack Hightower
Ford
Edward H. Levi
Afl-Cio
George Meany
United States
Hightower
Chamber of Commerce Legislative Affairs Committee
Soviet Union
Generato
Amarillo Officer Resigns Over Copying Incident Reports
Patrolman Larry Don Garrett of the Amarillo Police Department resigned after allegations he copied incident reports from police files and sold them to defense attorneys. Announcement was made by Asst. Chief Charles Hollis, with resignation submitted to Chief Lee Spradlin last Thursday.
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Amarillo
Larry Don Garrett
Asst
Charles Hollis
Hollis
Lee Spradlin
Police
Judge orders grain loading halted then resumed in Houston
A federal judge ordered Houston longshoremen to resume loading wheat aboard the Yugoslav vessel Bosanka bound for the Soviet Union. The restraining order halted a weeklong work stoppage at the Port of Houston, with loading set to restart at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. The dispute centers on assurances that grain sales to the Soviet Union will not raise U.S. prices for food.
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Galveston, Tex
Federal
Houston
Soviet Union
James Noel
Shippers Association
International Longshoremen Association
Bosanka
Cargill Grain Elevator
ILA
Warner F. Brock
U. S
Brock
Lution
U.S
West Gulf Maritime Association
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Ford Administration
Russia
Noel
San Francisco Mayor’s offer aims to end police strike
San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto met with supervisors to present a proposal he said could settle the street police strike as 1,935 officers walk off. The city faces stretched protection and no noted crime surge despite injunctions and picket lines at stations.
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San Francisco
Joseph L. Alioto
Alioto
Board of Supervisors
Superior Court
Robert Drewes
Frank Jordan
Police Officers Association
Weather Outlook From Today Through Thursday
Clear to partly cloudy and warm through Thursday with a slight chance of storms tonight. Highs in the low 90s, lows around the upper 60s. Southerly winds 12 to 22 mph. Probability of precipitation 20 percent tonight.
Israel Egypt pact eyed with 2 billion in US aid
Israeli politician Yitzhak Navon outlined a three section interim accord with Egypt worth about 2 billion dollars in U.S. aid and U.S. guaranteed oil supplies. The plan includes direct Israel Egypt pledges not to use force, indirect U.S. assurances, and U.S. aid and oil terms with Egypt buying oil to replace Abu Rudeis output.
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Israel
Egypt
Washington
Yitzhak Navon
Yitzhak Rabin
Labor Party
Henry A.kissinger
Navon
Kissinger
Ford
Sinai
U.S
United States
America
Suez Canal
Mitla
Gidi
U.N
Abu Rudeis
U.S. War
Ford warns SALT talks hinge on Soviet restraint
President Ford told the American Legion in Minneapolis that detente must be a two way street and warned of possible $2.8 billion in new strategic weapons funding if SALT talks stall. He cited Portugal turmoil and urged concrete Soviet restraint while stressing U S strength and readiness. Ford noted defense plans for 1976 and 1977 and recalled 20 years as a legion member.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Ford
Soviet Union
Congress
The
American Legion
Legion
United States
Ron Nessen
Minneapolis Convention Center
Multiple World News Briefs From 1970s Dispatches
Reports from Kentucky Portugal Ethiopia and Houston describe a credit card aided car rental theft in Kentucky a siege at Lisbon headquarters of a Communist trade union federation amid political shifts in Portugal Ugandan President Idi Amin proposing an African Liberation Army and astronaut Donald Slayton facing exploratory lung surgery with a non-fume related lesion noted in Houston space officials said
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UPI
Kentucky
FBI
Hearst
Egee
Louisvillle
Lisbon
Portugal
Communist Trade Union Federation
Communist Party
Litary
Eurico Corvadho
Vasco Goncalves
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Idi Amin
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Slayton
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