Indications of a looming strike by liquor store clerks
Mayor Doug Peterson said the seven municipal liquor store employees, six of whom belong to the Retail Clerks Union, may strike over a demand for a closed union shop. Mediation failed after wage talks and an offer of 48 cents per hour was tied to the union shop, risking arbitration or a walkout.
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Rich Nelson
Doug Peterson
Retail Clerks Union
Peterson
Herb Whiting
Vic Berglund
Larry Dow
Whiting
Berglund
Red Lake welfare bill to get first committee hearing
Legislation to place all welfare programs on the Red Lake Reservation under state responsibility moves to a House sub committee hearing in St Paul on Thursday March 6. Rep. Doug St Onge sponsors HF 533 seeking 100 percent reimbursement to Beltrami County.
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National health insurance plan unlikely before 1976
Washington AP report says Congress likely will not enact a national health insurance plan before 1976 due to disputes over coverage scope funding mechanisms and program design. Leaders express urgency, but energy and tax legislation delay action while one narrow measure expanding Medicare to the jobless moves forward.
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Congress
Ford Administration
National Health Insurance Congress
Ullman
Kennedy
House
Ford hints at plan to veto oil tariff bill
President Ford told 70 freshmen congressmen he has a surprise later in the day as he negotiates a compromise energy package. White House sources say he may defer 60 days the March and April $1 per barrel tariff increments and delay price controls on domestic crude, while Democrats push a 90 day delay and price control repeal.
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Washington
Ford
White House
Rep
Timothy Wirth
Colorado
Senate
Boumedienne pushes OPEC price freeze at real terms summit
Algerian President Boumedienne urged OPEC to freeze oil prices in real terms until 1980 if industrialized nations back a vast Third World development program. He also proposed a $10 to $15 billion oil fund to activate assets and aid importers while fostering cooperation with rich nations.
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OPEC
Algiers
Houari Boumedienne
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Opec Oil
Finance
Members Recommend More U S Military Aid to Cambodia
A congressional delegation of seven House members and one senator prepared to urge added U S military aid to Cambodia. They planned to present their advice to the House Appropriations subcommittee weighing Ford's request for 222 million dollars in further military assistance.
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Indochina
U.S
Cambodia
House
Ford
Lorenz Kidnapping Update and Airlift of Anarchists
Peter Lorenz remained missing as a government notice stated. A Lufthansa Boeing 707 carrying five anarchist convicts and Lutheran Pastor Heinrich Albertz departed Aden for West Germany after leaving the group there. The abductors demand Albertz’s return with proof they have found refuge.
Compromise veterans preference bill gains preliminary approval
Minnesota House on a onesided voice vote approves a compromise to curb absolute veterans’ preference in local hiring. Veterans keep points on civil service tests, with a new top ten rule for test rankings. The measure also clarifies name use in marriage and requires annual benefit statements for workers on request.
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Berglin
Veterans’ Organizations
House
Bruce Vento
Dfl-St
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