Watergate Reform Act Advances in Senate
The Watergate Reform Act, approved 91 to 5 in the Senate, would require financial disclosure by federal officials and create a permanent office of special prosecutor to investigate top government misdeeds. It targets the president, vice president, judges, cabinet members, Congress, and White House staff, with a three year term for the prosecutor.
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Washington
Congress
House
Richard Nixon
Senate
House Democrats
House Democratic Caucus
Lloyd Bentsen
D-Tex
Justice Department
Ford
Bentsen
FBI
White House
Congressional
Senate delays B1 bomber funds by one vote
The Senate Appropriations Committee votes 13 to 12 to hold up $1.05 billion for three B1 bombers until Feb 1, delaying production and letting the next president decide. Rumsfeld calls the move unsound as Carter critics push for fiscal restraint amid defense spending battles.
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Washington
Pentagon
Donald Rumsfeld
Congress
Senate Appropriations Committee
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
House
Rumsfeld
Senate
Defense Department
Senate House
Appropriations Committee
Battelle Studies Auto Recycling in St Joseph County
Battelle Memorial Institute conducts an economic feasibility study in St Joseph County Indiana on recycling old autos and other scrap. The effort, funded by a U S Commerce Department grant, seeks to turn scrap into new industry and reduce waste while spurring local development.
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Columbus, Ohio
Battelle Memorial Institute
Indiana
U.S. Department of Commerce
Economics Development Administration
St. Joseph County
Senate Overrides Ford Veto On Public Works Jobs Bill
The Senate voted 73 to 24 to override President Ford on a $3.95 billion public works jobs bill, with House leaders expecting an easy final override. Supporters say it would create 200 000 construction and related jobs and save 90 000 state and local posts, while Ford warns it inflates and fails to provide lasting employment. A second veto on a $3.3 billion military construction bill faces a similar override, tied to a district rider limiting base closings.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Ford
House
Thomas O'Neill
O'Neill
Walter Mondale
Particu
Larly
Pentagon
Wildcat Walkout Spreads in West Virginia Coal Mines
The wildcat strike expands across southern West Virginia coalfields as 12,000 miners stay off work in Kanawha Logan and Fayette counties. Pickets close mines in Boone Raleigh and Mingo counties amid fears of state wide closures and lost coal worth millions. The dispute began over a Cedar Coal dispatcher job and court rulings on posting and bidding under the UMW contract.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
Mel Triole
Logan Coal Operators Association
Kanawha
Logan
Fayette
Edwin Wiles
West Virginia Coal Association
Boone
Raleigh
Mingo
Wiles
United Mine Workers Local 1759
The
Cedar Coal Co
UMW
U.S
Dennis Knapp
Abingdon
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Battelle
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Kanawha County
Bowman
Chauncey, Ohio
Jcpenney
Ohio
A. S. Court St
Athens, Ohio
Athens
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