Meany vows longshoremen boycott will continue
AFL CIO President George Meany said longshoremen will keep refusing to load American grain bound for the Soviet Union. After a 90 minute White House meeting with Ford and Dunlop Meany asserted the boycott remains in force and demanded assurances the grain sales to Russia won’t raise U.S. prices or hurt shipping. A White House statement called the talks preliminary and promised further meetings involving Meany and officials, with the president possible in future discussions.
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UPI
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Ford
Soviet Union
Russia
U.S
Meany
White House
Ron Nessen
United States
Beame backs plan to share city fiscal powers
Mayor Abraham Beame endorses a plan to strip some budget control but retain home rule. A state overseer board would set revenue estimates and a spending ceiling while the city seeks funds from state notes and expanded Municipal Assistance Corp borrowing to cover a $2.8 to $3.1 billion deficit before reentering credit markets by November.
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UPI
Abraham Beame
New York City
Hugh Carey
Beame
Carey
Board of Overseers
Arthur Levitt
Municipal Assistance Corp
Carey and Beame
Proxmire attacks federal study on sex arousal and marijuana
Sen William Proxmire criticizes National Institute on Drug Abuse for a $121 000 project at Southern Illinois University to sexually arouse male students with erotic movies after marijuana dosing. He notes other NIDA grants exceed $1 million studying marijuana effects in hypnosis facial expressions and cultural groups including the Zulus and North Yemen. Dupont defends the research. a spokesman details methods and possible deterrent value.
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UPI
William Proxmire
Proxmire
National Institute On Drug Abuse
Southern Illinois University
Wisconsin Democrat
NIDA
North Yemen
Dupont
South Africa
Husband may not be charged in wife’s death case
William Plachta watched his wife Francesca Plachta die after she planned a self-inflicted overdose tied to terminal nerve degeneration. While he was arrested, Riverside County District Attorney Byron Morton delayed a charging decision as a surgeon praised his act as an obligation of love.
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Calif
UPI
William Plachta
Francesca Plachta
Riverside County
Plachta
Kerr-McGee
Crescent
Okla
Oklahoma City
W. Roger Webb
Washington
Decrow
Silkwood
Ms. Decrow
Justice
Communists rally in Lisbon and Leiria amid unrest
Communist led protests press President Gomes as anti left riots surge in Leiria burning party offices and homes. Police report leftists beaten and hospitalized while loyal troops guard government leaders and military moderates seek ouster of Goncalves regime.
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Portugal
UPI
Leiria
Communist Party
5Th Division
Revolutionary Council
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
Vasco Goncalves
United Front
Francisco da Costa Gomes
Pryor appoints woman to Arkansas Supreme Court
On Suffrage Day, Gov. Pryor names Elsijane Trimble Roy the first woman on Arkansas Supreme Court. The ceremony in Little Rock highlighted mixed reactions to feminist efforts, while NOW pressed for reopening Silkwood case inquiry and urged federal action on equal rights.
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UPI
America
Justice Department
Ford
Little Rock
Ark
David H. Pryor
Arkansas Supreme Court
Elsijane Trimble Roy
Fort Smith
Austin
Tex
National Organization For Women
University of Texas
Slayton's tumor benign ends medical fly doubt
Donald Deke Slayton, America's oldest astronaut and last active Mercury seven member, beat a left lung tumor found benign after surgery at M D Anderson. Doctors say he should be fit to fly again, despite 30 years of smoking and his recent space mission.
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UPI
America
Donald “Deke
Slayton
Mercury
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