Ford offers new contract to avert UAW walkout
Ford Motor Co presents a second three year contract proposal to the United Auto Workers four days before a strike deadline. The plan boosts pay 43 to 82 cents per hour, shifts 84 cents of past cost of living raises into base pay, expands life and disability insurance and broadens health care while offering up to 95 percent take home for laid off workers. The UAW was to meet Ford negotiators after receiving the offer at 9 45 am.
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Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers
Ford
UAW
Defector Viktor Belenko arrives in United States
Russian air force officer Viktor Belenko landed in Los Angeles by Northwest Orient flight from Toyo and was escorted by Defense Department officials. He wore a wig to disguise his appearance and sought political asylum after piloting a MIG25 Foxbat to northern Japan. Federal authorities kept transfer details undisclosed amid a two year escape plan. The piece closes with a note on the rattlesnake temperature regulation and desert heat risks.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Viktor Ivanovich Belenko
United States
Belenko
Washington
Los Angeles International
Northwest Orient
Toyo
Federal judge halts low bone content in meat rule injunction
UPI reports a federal judge issued a temporary injunction blocking an Agriculture Department rule permitting controlled ground bone in processed meats like hot dogs and pizzas. The ruling bars use of mechanically deboned meat until hazards are ruled safe and calls for hearings under the Administrative Procedure Act.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
U.S
William Bryant
Bryant
Rodney E. Leonard
The
Community Nutrition Institute
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Butz
Lack of accountability cited for Nixon associates
Rep. Brooks cites GAO audit showing 58 unaccounted typewriters worth 18000 and weak controls in Nixon White House spending from 1969 to 1974. The report notes missing office equipment and transactions lacking receipts or authorizations, with improper CIA fund transfers and other lax practices.
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Washington
UPI
Jack Brooks
D-Tex
Nixon
White House
Brooks
House Government Operations Committee
General Accounting Office
Richard Nixon
Ford
Philip Buden
GAO
Congress
Key Biscayne
Fla
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Calif
CIA
Cambodia
Buchen
Scientists Aim to Track Gray Whales With New Transmitters
Washington researchers seek battery powered transmitters to tag gray whales and monitor migrations by satellite. The plan envisions a 250000 dollar R&D effort for miniaturized gear as part of a 1 million dollar two year program to protect habitat off the West Coast from energy development.
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Washington
UPI
Pacific
House
John Twiss Jr
Marine Mammal Commission
Twiss
Rep
Robert Leggett
Dcalif
West
California
Atlantic
Consumer Advocacy bill declared dead for year
Sponsors said the Consumer Advocacy bill has virtually no chance of passage this year due to threats of filibuster and veto. The measure would create an Office of Consumer Advocacy to handle complaints and research, with supporters citing President Ford and candidate Carter's positions.
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Washington
UPI
Ralph Nader
Consumer Advocacy
Congress
James Allen
D-Ala
Allen
Ford
House
Abraham Ribicoff
Dconn
Ribicoff
Government Operations Committee
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Nader
Senate
Glance at tax revision bill
Washington report outlines a compromise tax revision bill at a glance. It preserves existing individual and industry tax cuts through 1977 while raising the minimum tax. It tightens shelters in real estate farming oil and gas and other sectors and expands or introduces breaks for child care alimony moving expenses and prepaid legal services while trimming sick pay exclusions. Estate and gift taxes are lowered over five years and capital gains rules tighten with longer holding periods. The investment credit becomes permanent with extra credits for employee stock ownership plans.
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Washington
UPI
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