Jobless Rate Falls to 8.3 Percent in September
The Labor Department reports unemployment at 8.3 percent in September, with about 7.8 million unemployed and 85.4 million employed. Rates shifted modestly across groups with adult men rising to 7.0 percent and household heads at 5.7 percent, while teenagers dropped to 19.3 percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Department
Burton Malkiel
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
House Units Back 200 Sinai monitors amid war risk
The House International Relations Committee approved sending 200 Americans to Sinai to monitor the Israeli Egyptian peace accord with a clause to withdraw them if a new war breaks out. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 12 to 2 to declassify four related agreements, while Kissinger opposed full declassification.
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Washington
House International Relations Committee
Sinai
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House
Israel
Egypt
Senate Committee
U.S
Frank Church
Idaho
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Church
U. S
John Sparkman
House Committee
Albert
Congress
Iowa Falls Unemployment Rate Drops to 5.2 Percent
Iowa's unemployment rate fell from 5.6 to 5.2 percent in September, according to the Iowa Employment Security Commission. The commission notes a stabilizing factor for the state economy despite a higher number of unemployed than a year earlier, with 70,900 unemployed in a labor force of 1,373,700. The national rate also eased from 8.4 percent in September.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Employment Security Commission
You should live within your means even if you borrow
The saying urges frugality and prudent borrowing to match spending to income. It cautions against excessive debt while advocating careful borrowings to maintain financial balance. The phrase reflects practical economics and personal finance guidance.
Senate debate over energy policy seeks oil gas price trade off
Liberal senators push a plan to raise natural gas prices in exchange for oil price rollback. The proposal would lower oil to 6.75 a barrel from 9 with a five year path back to 9 and set a nationwide price of 1.30 per 1000 cubic feet for new natural gas while maintaining some controls on old gas.
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Washington
Senate
Ford Administration
Senate Budget Committee
Sen
Adlai Stevenson III
Stevenson
President Ford vetoes school lunch bill over nonneedy subsidies
President Ford used his 39th veto to reject a $2.75 billion child nutrition bill. He argued it would provide subsidies for nonneedy children and increase the deficit, while school lunch and breakfast programs would continue under a continuing resolution. He urged extending current programs or backing his broader aid proposal.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
Four More Arrests In Cedar Rapids Rape Cases
In Cedar Rapids four more arrests were made on rape charges linked to assaults on four women Tuesday. Three men were charged earlier, bringing total arrests to eight. A 17 year old boy was also charged, ending the investigation, police said.
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C.R
Craig Leslie Gardner
Fourth Street NW
Southwest Side
Jack Eugene Pyle
Sixth Street NW
Jack David Simpsch
Gulf Street
Simpsch
Cedar Rapids
Robbers Tie Up Nine in Ellis Pharmacy Heist
Two armed men entered Ellis Pharmacy on Ellis Boulevard NW around 4:30 p.m. and tied up the owner, a clerk, a pharmacist, six customers and two children. They demanded money and injuried the pharmacist, who was on his second day. Police described the robbers as about 23 year old black males.
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Ellis Pharmacy
Ellis Boulevard NW
the Gazette
Congress Votes To Lift Turkish Arms Sale Ban
The Senate approved a bill ending the U S arms embargo on Turkey and allowing 185 million dollars of American weapons to be sold. Ford supporters argue bases in Turkey aid monitoring Soviet missiles. Turkish officials caution the move remains incomplete.
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Congress
Washington
Senate
White House
U.S
Turkey
House
Ford
Cyprus
Turhan Feyzioglu
Ihsan Sapri Caglayangil
Possible double murder probe in Iowa deaths
Johnson county Sheriff Gary Hughes says foul play is suspected in the deaths of Karen Ann Christensen and Larry Gordon Wells. Investigators consider murder suicide or double homicide after a burned pickup found Aug 25 near the Coralville reservoir. The fire is deemed incendiary with inflammatory liquid. Police seek witnesses who saw the pair Aug 23 to 25 and urge confidentiality.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Gary Hughes
Karen Ann Christensen
Larry Gordon Wells
Christensen
Wells
Coralville Reservoir
Hughes
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Cedar Rapids
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Flagstaff, Ariz
Northern Arizona University
Iowa Falls
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FPC
Karen Christensen
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