Apollo Soyuz Linkup Shows Space Diplomacy In Action
In Houston engineers and space crews from the Apollo and Soyuz missions exchanged visits aboard linked orbiting crafts. cosmonauts and astronauts toured each ship, shared meals, and conducted TV tours from Russia to the United States amid a farewell and news conference plan for the final day of their historic joint mission.
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Space Center
Houston
Apollo
Soyuz
Valeri Kubasov
Russia
Vance D. Brand
Black Sea
Pacific
Alexei Leonov
Brand
Ence
Moscow
Leonov
Thomas P. Stafford
Donald K. Slayton
Stafford
Slayton
Kubasov
Ural Mountains
Volga River
Ford
Amendments to Silence Opposition Change End School Bill Stall
Ohio House subcommittee votes about 30 changes to a school finance bill to aid passage of the equal yield plan. The panel removed a rollback ban and lowered the aid eligibility millage to 20, with bipartisan support expected for full committee action next week.
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Columbus
Ohio
House
Tually
Myrl H. Shoemaker
Bourneville
Senate
Ford Congress At Impasse On New Oil Pricing Plan
With price controls due to expire August 31, Ford and Congress clash over a new petroleum pricing program. Staggers urges compromise as Senate Interior Committee kills Ford’s plan to raise controlled prices. House action extends controls to December 31 and shifts new oil toward market levels.
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Ford
Congress
Washington
House Commerce Committee
Harley O. Staggers
D-W. Va
Staggers
House
Senate
Interior Committee
Commerce Committee
U.S
Government cuts food donations while shifting to cash grants
Washington reports a 22 percent drop in government purchases of donated food for needy families schools and institutions from 1973-74 to the last fiscal year ending June 30. The shift reflects more cash grant use in school lunch programs and fewer recipients of donated commodities. Chrysler shuts Belvidere plant briefly to cut large car inventories as the new model year begins. Robert O. Aders, ex Kroger chair, is selected by President Ford to be under secretary of labor in Cincinnati.
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Agriculture Department
USDA
Detroit
Chrysler Corp
Belvidere, Ill
Chrysler
U.S
Cincinnati Ohio
Robert O. Aders
The
Kroger Co
Ford
U.S. Labor Department
Cincinnati Enquirer
Aders
Weekend forecast notes warm spell and showers
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. A chance of thundershowers tonight increasing Saturday. Tonight lows mid to upper 60s. Saturday highs mid to upper 80s. Details, Page 14.
Threats of Postal Strike Receive Full Attention
President Ford’s labor troubleshooter focuses on averting a postal worker strike as a four-union contract for 600,000 workers nears expiration. W. J. Usery Jr. coordinates talks while rail talks, delayed by a one-week postponement, falter over jurisdiction and cost-of-living issues. The unions threaten joint action if no deal by Sunday night, with plans for executive-board meetings in Washington.
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Washington
Ford
W. J. Usery Jr
Postal Service
Usery
Brotherhood of
American Postal Workers Union
The
National Association of Letter Carriers
Retired Ford Executive Sues Firm Over Alcoholism Link
John R. Brennan, 56, a former Ford Motor Co. chair and managing director in Switzerland, files a 1.3 million suit in Wayne County Circuit Court claiming alcoholism was caused by his job and promotion pace. He says long lunches and social functions drove his drinking. Ford allegedly offered no help and breached contracts. Brennan seeks pay from 1970 to 1984 and recounts personal losses after leaving Ford.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Wayne County Circuit Court
John R. Brennan
Brennan
Ford
Switzerland
Zurich
Brennen
Mail Intercept Rules CIA Mail Retained by Agency Sparks Outcry
CIA kept opened mail for years in a 1972 73 program. Postmaster General Bailar demanded accountability and handed 110 opened letters and 85 postcards to Justice Department investigators. Colby apologized saying the retention violated mail sanctity and client rights.
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Washington
CIA
Justice Department
Intelligence Agency
Benjamin F. Bailar
Bailar
William E. Colby
Postal Service
Department
Colby
Atty
Laurence H. Silberman
Senate Intelligence Panel
Bailor
Russia
United States
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C.L. Dennis
Bernard Cushman
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Dream House
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Austria
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Lake Orion
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Rockefeller Commission
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