New Soviet defense chief seen unsympathetic to detente
Dmitri Ustinov, age 67, named to replace the late Marshal Grechko as defense minister. A longtime arms industry administrator with deep military ties, he is viewed by Western diplomats as efficient but relatively unsympathetic to detente. His career spans WWII to present, with roles in armaments and defense industry oversight.
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UPI
Soviet Union
Andrei Grechko
Kremlin
Dmitri Ustinov
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Ustinov
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
United States
Brezhnev
Joseph Stalin
Welfare children well being debated in government panel
Congressional investigators urged ongoing federal monitoring of welfare children's well being to prevent mistreatment in programs that spend about 1.4 billion dollars yearly. The GAO called for biennial HEW reports classifying children as critical, serious, fragile, or satisfactory while warning that such records could raise civil liberties concerns.
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Washington
UPI
General Accounting Office
GAO
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Congress
HEW
FBI harassment of King known to White House and DOJ
Senate Intelligence Committee plans a supplementary report detailing the FBI harassment campaign against Martin Luther King Jr. and its links to the White House and Attorney General office. The Justice Department said its King death probe found no evidence of FBI involvement, but may pursue new evidence. The broader inquiry targets J Edgar Hoover’s 15 year campaign to discredit King and the bureau’s domestic surveillance policies.
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UPI
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Martin Luther King Jr
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King
Justice Department
Stanley Pittinger
Pottinger
Department
Office of Professional Responsibility
Edward Levi
Bureau
Memphis
Tenn
James Earl Ray
Tennessee
Kansas considers declaring Iowa state bird obscene nuisance
Iowa labeled Kansas sunflower a noxious weed, blocking sun for corn and soybeans. Kansas House Speaker McGill proposed an anti goldfinch resolution, calling the eastern goldfinch unattractive noisy and without redeeming value ahead of adjournment.
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Topeka, Kan
UPI
Iowa
Kansas
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Iowa Conservation Commission
Duane S
Pete’’ McGill
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Kissinger Hints Soviet Cuban Africa Aim Limited
Secretary of State Kissinger, recovering from a stomach ailment, met Mobutu in Kinshasa and said the Soviet Union and Cuba are unlikely to intervene in Africa beyond Angola. Mobutu sought more military aid from the United States and China as Kissinger continued a six nation tour ending in Liberia.
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Julius Nyerere
Center
Dar Es Salaam
U.S
Henry Kissinger
Nyerere
United States
Africa
Angola
Mobutu
Kinshasa
Zaire
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
Mobutu Sese Seko
Liberia
Kissinger
Congo
Monrovia
Kissinger Mobutu
Soviet Union
Cuba
Marxist Popular Movement
China
Ohio
Robert Funseth
Marble Palace
Ghana
Black caucus platform to prod Democrats
National Black Caucus convenes in Charlotte for a three day Caucus of Black Democrats Issues Conference to draft a unified minority platform for the Democratic party. About 1000 officials, lawmakers and leaders attend as five presidential hopefuls may appear for a final session, with proposals on 12 topics to be handed to the Democratic Platform Committee.
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N.C
UPI
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Black Democrats Issues
Congress
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Congressional Black Caucus
Jimmy Carter
Henry Jackson
Morris Udall
Frank Church
California
Jerry Brown
Democratic National Committee
Frank Cowan
Cowan
National Black Political Assembly
Cincinnati
Ronald Dellums
Dcalif
Ford veto preserves Hatch Act in Veto Fight
The House failed to override President Ford's veto on a bill to relax the Hatch Act by a 243-160 vote, 26 short of the two-thirds needed. Ford argued the measure would threaten employee independence and freedom from coercion in government programs and personnel management. Proponents say safeguards would prevent coercion if political activity displeased superiors.
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UPI
House
Ford
League of Women Voters objects to pro Seabrook pamphlet in NH bill
LWV urges the Public Utilities Commission to stop PS NH from charging customers for distribution of PSC Seabrook nuclear propaganda in Light Lines. Andrea Solomon cites a 1973 NH Supreme Court ruling limiting advertising expenses and calls for alternative viewpoints from non PSC staff to be published.
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Light Lines
PSC
Seabrook
Andrea Solomon
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Alexander Kalinski
New Hampshire Supreme Court
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