Lockheed subpoenaed over bribes in Japan payments
A Senate subcommittee on multinational corporations served Lockheed Aircraft Corp with a subpoena for documents on payments in Japan. The panel said the records may include bribes to Japanese officials.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Japan
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State, Treasury and Commerce Departments
Internal Revenue Service
U.S
Lockheed
Butz warns hunger demands boost in world farming
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz told a Fairfield College audience that world hunger will rise as population grows by 80 percent in the next century. He urged governments to commit to expanding production where it is needed and warned cheap food policies hurt farmer incentives.
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Fairfield, Conn
UPI
Earl L. Butz
United States
Butz
Fairfield College
San Francisco talks break down in city craft strike
Negotiations collapse as unions call the supervisors hard headed and reject a plan to put the pay dispute to voters. Some 1,700 city trades walked off March 31 after the budget cut pay, halting buses and streetcars and prompting a 200-bus driver vote to back pay. District buses serve Marin County commuters.
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San Francisco
UPI
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George Moscone
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Marin County
Quentin Kopp
Board of Supervisors
Miners call Callaghan policy unrealistic in Britain
Prime Minister James Callaghan urged new hard pay curbs to curb inflation as Britain’s pound slid to a record low and stock values fell. He spoke in Cardiff calling for a voluntary incomes policy. miners’ leaders rejected the three percent cap as unrealistically low and demanded higher pay, threatening a renewed coal strike that helped topple Heath’s government in 1974.
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UPI
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Arthur Scargill
Yorkshire
Heath
Bennington Banner classified and subscription rates
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sunday and holidays at 425 Main St Bennington VT 05201. Subscriptions cost 15 cents per day 4.40 per month by carrier and 9.00 for 3 months or 36.00 per year by mail within a 50 mile Vermont radius. Rates for elsewhere in the U.S. include 9.75 for 3 months 19.50 for 6 months and 39.00 for 1 year.
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Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times Service
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen, Inc
Vermont
U.S
Betty Ford crosses picket line for Women of the Year
First Lady Betty Ford attended NBC televised Women of the Year program after crossing a Local 11 picket line protesting an NBC lockout. Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso and Representative Bella Abzug declined to cross. Federal court barred access at a side stage door while she taped a segment honoring her as an inspirational leader. Journalists note her 58th birthday as she explained she honored a prior commitment and wished the strike settled. Meanwhile, NBC and NABET negotiators met in Washington as the six day strike looms over wages and jurisdiction.
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UPI
Betty Ford
Ladies’ Home Journal
NBC
Ford
National Association of Broadcast Employes and Technicians
Connecticut
Ella Grasso
Bella Abzug
D-N.y
Ed Sullivan
Manhattan
West Point cadet charged with second rape at academy
West Point cadet Lavelle Tyrone McNutt faces a second rape charge after officials accused him of raping a 19 year old Smith College student visiting the U S Military Academy. He previously pleaded innocent to an earlier rape charge from Bardonia Rockland County. A May 24 hearing is scheduled in the Bardonia case.
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N.Y
UPI
Lavelle Tyrone McNutt
U.S. Military Academy
Smith College
Plebe
Rockland County
Bardonia
Rockland
Military Academy
Tip ONeill says he'll be next U S House speaker
UPI reports Thomas T. ONeill Jr., House Majority Leader, told a Dedham, Massachusetts, fundraising dinner he will be the next speaker if Carl Albert retires. He claimed 164 unsolicited House Democrats back him. If elected, he would be the third Massachusetts speaker in 25 years, succeeding Martin and McCormack.
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UPI
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O’neill
Carl Albert
Albert
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Joseph W. Martin Jr
North Attleboro
John W. McCormack
Boston
O'Neill
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Oklahoma
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Albert denies retirement report tied to Magna Carta trip
Speaker Carl Albert angrily rejected a New York Times column claiming he will retire at the end of this Congress and announce it next month. His aides say he may retire this year after 30 years in the House, though he has not confirmed plans publicly.
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Carl Albert
New York Times
James Reston
Albert
London
United States
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