Specter of unemployment haunts Britain in 1976 downturn
London reporter notes unemployment rising above 1.5 million, 6.4 percent of the workforce, threatening Prime Minister Callaghan's Labour government. Trade unions warn of unrest at the TUC convention in Brighton and possible collapse of the Social Contract if wage and spending controls fail.
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Columbus Telegram
Columbus
Nebraska
Washington Window
Great Britain
Joseph W. Grigg
London
UPI
Britain
Labor Party
Trades Union Congress
Brighton
Len Murray
TUC
David Basnett
General and Municipal Workers’ Union
James Callaphan
The Campaign Answer Man predicts a brutal 1976 campaign
The Answer Man from UPI predicts a rough race between Ford and Carter with a head to head slugfest. He foresees debates as crucial only if candidates sweat and share the stage, and jokes about campaign shuffles culminating in a chaotic sequence of leadership changes.
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Arnold Sawislak
Washington
UPI
Ho-Ho-Kus
Ford
Toru
Jimmy Carter
South
Gov. Carter
Committee Warns of Cattle Disease Risk in Pan American Highway
The Foreign Animal Disease Advisory Committee of the U S Agriculture Department opposes completing the Pan American Highway until safeguards stop the northward spread of foot and mouth disease. The last 250 mile Darien Gap segment crosses dense jungle near the Panama Colombia border, a natural barrier to the disease.
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Foreign Animal Disease Advisory Committee
U.S. Agriculture Department
Darien Gap
Panama-Colombia
Kissinger awaits African leaders' OK for shuttle diplomacy
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said he waits for black African leaders to approve his shuttle diplomacy aimed at preventing race war in southern Africa. He met with President Giscard d Estaing in Paris and plans to go to Dar es Salaam after the African summit, conditionally depending on the leaders' endorsement.
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Paris
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
Africa
Dar Es Salaam
Legionnaires cases eyed nickel carbonyl link in latest death
Researchers examine tissue from the 29th Legionnaires victim J Bruce Rogers 60 of Moorestown N J autopsy notes say metal instruments must be avoided tests on other victims inconclusive due to contamination Nickel carbonyl poisoning could mimic Legionnaires symptoms Rogers who managed four Holiday Inns in Philadelphia died at Burlington County Memorial Hospital CDC lists 179 as meeting disease criteria Bellevue Stratford Hotel hosted July convention connected to outbreak
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Philadelphia
UPI
William Sunderman Jr
University of Connecticut
Pennsylvania Health Department
Robert Costello
J. Bruce Rogers
Moorestown
N.J
Sunderman
Rogers
Burlington County Memorial Hospital
New Jersey
Castells
Legion
David Flinker
Flinker
American Legion
Bellevue Stratford Hotel
Costello
National Center For Disease Control
Bellevue Stratford
CDC
Bellevue
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