Mayors wary of Ford veto on jobs bill
Leaders of the U S Conference of Mayors urged restraint on criticizing President Ford over his planned veto of a 6.2 billion public works package to create about 600 000 jobs. Mayor Moon Landrieu said he hoped Ford would reconsider after consulting officials while Sen Edmund Muskie urged support for the bill as a path to recovery, noting votes in the House suggested possible override.
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Ford
Moon Landrieu
New Orleans
Landrieu
Kenneth Gibson
Newark
Gibson
Edmund S. Muskie
Dmaine
Muskie
Ralph Perk
Cleveland
Perk
Edward Zorinsky
Omaha
White House
Zorinsky
Housing and Urban Development
Carla Hills
Pittsburgh
American Iron and Steel Institute
AISI
Institute
Phoney check ring broken across New England and Boston
FBI announced seven arrests and two fugitives in a nationwide phony American Express Travelers Checks ring rooted in Boston. The operation allegedly passed over $100,000 in counterfeit checks since July 1974, with indictments charging multiple suspects with interstate transportation of counterfeit securities and conspiracy.
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Boston
UPI
American Express
FBI
American Express Co
David F. Elwell
South Boston
William Myron Ranney
Arlington
Rodney Lampton
Cambridge
David Keeling
Malden
Joanne Cottle
New Bedford
Arthur C. Cottle
New Bedford House of Correction
Bernard John Kiley
Charles Street
Edmund Guinen
Pittsfield
Arnald H. Greene
Framingham
Keeling
U.S
Willie J. Davis
Wayne B. Hollingsworth
Soviet warship mutiny near Latvia heads for Sweden
Mutinous Kronstadt class anti submarine patrol vessel with 42 crew including six officers, bearing serial 628, diverted from Riga to Leningrad and then toward Sweden. Western and Eastern sources say the mutiny was led by a political officer and more than 20 crew followed. Soviet warplanes threatened to sink the ship if it continued west, while the vessel’s Latvians were described as not trusted at home.
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Stockholm
Sweden
UPI
Latvia
Riga
Leningrad
Baltic
Russia
Bild
Hamburg
West Germany
Expressen
Soviet
Saaremaa Island
Gulf of Riga
Communist Party
Weather Outlook: Cloudy Afternoon and Snow Likely
Increasing cloudiness this afternoon with highs in the 20s. Lows tonight near 10 degrees and a chance of snow. Partly sunny Sunday with temperatures in the mid teens to near 20.
Bush installs Bush as CIA director amid vow to keep covert operations
In Langley Ford lauded CIA reform while 2000 officials cheered Bush as he took command. The president stressed a twofold aim: strong intelligence gathering and covert actions conducted constitutionally. Officials urged continuity, pledging not to dismantle or paralyze the agency amid past controversies.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
George Bush
CIA
America
Bush
William Colby
Langley
U.S
United States
Tragedy in Chicago Nursing Home Sparks 13 Deaths
A clothes closet fire on the third floor of Wincrest Nursing Home in Chicago’s North Side killed 13 elderly patients from smoke inhalation as they attended Mass in the chapel. 29 others were hospitalized. fire crews and staff aided many to safety while officials debated potential neglect questions.
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Chicago
UPI
Wincrest Nursing Home
Robert Quinn
Nursing Home
Quinn
Charles H. Percy
R-Ill
Senate Select Committee
William Pollard
Chicago Chancery
Father Pollard
Ers
Edgewater Hospital
Philip Ference
William Christian
Churchill descendant lashes US over bicentennial circus
Winston S Churchill Jr. accuses the United States of staging an endless bicentennial circus while the West faces Soviet expansion. He denounces detente as appeasement, warns of Kremlin designs, and urges unity with developing nations and China to counter Moscow.
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Brussels
Belgium
UPI
Winston Churchill
United States
West
Soviet Union
Winston S. Churchill
Europe
Conservative Party
Great Republic
Churchill
U.S
Angola
Capitol Hill
China
Kremlin
Palestinian Liberation Army
Lebanon
Welfare fight stalls Vermont emergency aid cut
Vermont Democratic Gov. Salmon and Rep. Hebard move toward a welfare budget pact as the House delays action on a 1.8 million supplemental appropriation aimed at rest of the fiscal year. A 331000 cut to General Assistance prompts threats of more funding for session costs and furious rounds within the Appropriations Committee.
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Montpelier
UPI
Thomas Salmon
House Appropriations Committee
Emory Hebard
Glover
Vermont House
General Assembly
Salmon
Hebard
Human Services Agency
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Richard F. Bates
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bates
Rutland
Reginald Lafley
Grand Union Co
Lafley
Raymond Betts
Theodore Corsones
Texas
United Nations
Republican Party
Popular Movement For the Liberation of
Cape of Good Hope
By William Poole
House
James Douglas
Middlebury
Glendon King
Northfield
Roland Gervais
Anesbury Falls
David Drew
D-Jericho
King
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