San Francisco crafts strike prompts citywide disruption
Labor officials call a mass rally to support 1700 crafts workers as a 15 day walkout idles transit and cultural activities. Bus drivers and Yellow Cab lockout worsen the crisis while merchants report downtown business losses. The AFL CIO convention moves to a theater as mediation stalls.
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San Francisco
UPI
Golden Gate
Merchants’ Association
California Labor Federation
Afl-Cio
Civic Auditorium
James Scearce
Board of Supervisors
Minot Flood Threat Deepens as Dikes Race to Hold
Floods force 13,000 residents to evacuate in Minot North Dakota as 35 miles of dikes are rushed to containment along the Souris River. Mayor Reiten warns of the crisis while National Guardsmen and base personnel aid. President Ford declares disaster housing relief for evacuees. Downtown faces possible multi-block inundation if the crest breaches eight feet above flood stage. Families load belongings onto trucks as streets flood and churches evacuate for Easter.
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Minot
N.D
UPI
Tom Probst
Souris
Probsts
Chester Reiten
Ford
National Guardsmen
Minot Air Force Base
James Storad
Holiday Village
Debbie
Historian warns Philippines war could mirror Vietnam
Harvard Magazine contributor Peter W. Stanley argues the United States risks another Vietnam style conflict in the Philippines by backing Marcos. He urges ending American military aid and personnel involvement to respect Philippine sovereignty and avert a broader war. Congressional hearings address leases at Clark Field and Subic Bay.
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Cambridge, Mass
UPI
United States
Republic of the Philippines
Peter W. Stanley
Harvard Magazine
Ferdinand Marcos
Washington, D.C
Clark Field
U.S. Naval
Subic Bay
Philippines
Stanley
U.S
Marcos
Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
Hubert Humphrey
Mike Mansfield
Philippine
Colby defends CIA maneuvers as lowering danger abroad
Former CIA chief William E. Colby tells a Suffolk University audience that covert aid to foreign political forces can reduce conflict and cost less than Marines. He says covert action may rise to match major threats, while stressing no apology for past intelligence activities. Colby notes political interference and protests over Chile’s 1973 coup.
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Boston
UPI
William E. Colby
CIA
Ians
Colby
Chile
Italy
Suffolk University
United States
Princeton
Ford
GOP
George Bush
Lockheed pleads to secret overseas payments over twenty five million
Lockheed Aircraft Corp admitted to secret payments exceeding 25 million to foreign officials since 1968, with some funds paid directly by the company. The move, paired with an additional 175 million in unaccounted payments, follows earlier testimony and investigations across Japan, Holland, and Italy.
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Washington
Upi
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Lockheed
U.S
Daniel Haughton
A. Carl Kotchian
SEC
John Pratt
Los Angeles
Roderick Hills
Haughton
Kotchian
Japan
Holland
Italy
Libya rejects hijackers asylum on seized airliner
Three Filipino gunmen holding 12 hostages aboard a hijacked PAL DC8 in Benghazi were denied asylum by Libyan officials. A diplomatic effort from Rome and PAL sought release of the air crew and passengers, but Libya’s decision remained firm as the jet stayed grounded at Benina Airport. The flight originated in Karachi after a weeklong, multi-stop hijacking beginning in the Philippines.
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Libya
UPI
Philippine Air Lines
Benina
Rome
PAL
Firm fires agents to end suspected foreign bribery
United Technologies Corp. dismissed two overseas agents amid doubts that commissions paid to independent foreign representatives may have reached foreign government officials or employees. A third agent is under review with termination possible. The firm says payments totaled about 1.8 million dollars plus 150 thousand linked to a foreign marketing consultant connected to a customer that could be a foreign government instrumentality.
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East Hartford, Conn
UPI
United Technologies Corp
Harry J. Gray
Gray
UTC
Mrs Ford to Campaign Texas Tour and White House Easter Duty
Mrs Ford plans a four day Texas campaign visit beginning next week touring the LBJ Library in Austin and meeting Lady Bird Johnson. She will join her son Jack in Texas and serve as grand marshal in a San Antonio river parade. On April 22 she will view the LBJ Library and Luci Nugent will help entertain at a private luncheon.
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UPI
Betty Ford
Lady Bird Johnson
LBJ
Austin
Texas
San Antonio
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnsons
Luci Nugent
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