Ford pushes drug fight at Vail with national campaign
President Ford calls illicit drugs a tragic national problem and orders Kissinger to urge Mexico over heroin flow into the southwest. He backs a border traffic plan, minimum sentences for traffickers, and ratification of international drug controls. Ford signs a $9.3 billion public works bill and announces staffing changes at the Civil Aeronautics Board.
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Vail
Colo
Ford
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Domestic Council
Congress
Rocky Mountain
U.S
Washington
Air Force
Corps of Engineers Civil
Bureau of Reclamation
Power Agencies
Interior Department
Energy Research and Development Administration
Kosygin opens four day Turkey visit amid steel mill ties
Soviet Premier Kosygin arrives in Ankara for a four day visit with Turkey to discuss defense ties and expanded Soviet credits. He will attend inaugurations for a $420 million Iskenderun iron and steel mill and visit Seydisehir where labor unrest has injured workers.
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Ankara
Turkey
Alexei N. Kosygin
United States
Kosygin
Suleyman Demirel
Demirel
Iskenderun
Seydisehir
Mao Tsetung at 82 Amid Campaigns and Prison Releases
Mao Tsetung, 82, remains China's dominant figure amid two ideological campaigns and a wave of prisoner releases this year. He has not appeared publicly recently but received 16 foreign visitors this year, including Ford, Kissinger, and Schmidt. The official press highlights U.S.-Soviet arms race tensions and asserts Teng Hsiao-ping as next in line for state leadership.
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Mao Tsetung
China
America
Soviet Union
Mao
Ford
Henry A. Kissinger
Helmut Schmidt
Communist Party
People’s Republic
Teng Hsiao-ping
Chou En-lai
Washington
Teng
Peking Peoples’s Daily
United States
Arab League moves toward Lebanon cease-fire mediation
The Arab League aims for a lasting Lebanon cease-fire as fighting rages in Beirut. Mahmoud Riad is said to travel to Beirut to discuss diplomatic or peacekeeper roles while Saudi Arabia Kuwait and Jordan seek independent efforts. Reports claim a coalition cabinet may offer Moslem gains in parliament and shifts in executive power.
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Lebanon
Arab League
Mahmoud Riad
League
Riad
Ashrafiyeh
Holiday Inn
Amman
Khaled
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Jordan
France
An Nahar
Fifth American worker seized in Eritrea kidnapping wave
The U S Embassy reports a fifth American worker, Ronald B Mischalke of Mabel Minnesota, kidnapped from the Kagnew base near Asmara by five armed men. He joins four others seized earlier by the Eritrean Liberation Front as the group fights for independence from Ethiopia.
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
U.S
Asmara
Eritrea
Ronald B. Mischalke
Mabel
Minn
Eritrean Liberation Front
ELF
Mischalke
Roger Garre
Collins
State Department
Consumer Price Index explained in Q and A format
The article outlines how the Consumer Price Index measures a market basket of goods and services, its base period, and what it includes and excludes. It notes the index does not measure cost of living and covers prices from 18 000 urban retail sites across 39 major areas plus 17 smaller cities.
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Labor Department
Christmas shopping up with double digit sales across nation
Merchants nationwide report strong Christmas season sales with luxury items and clothes leading. Day after Christmas traffic was heavy in many cities though bad weather restrained activity in some regions. Four year olds Candy and Rodell Mackall were found dead in New York City and their mother Debra Mackall and boyfriend Alfred Forte face charges.
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Associated Press
New England
Detroit
California
National Safety Council
New York City
Rockefeller Center
Charlotte
N.C
Donald Stahl
Ford
Vail
Colo
Rocky Mountains
Debra Mackall
Alfred Forte
Growth shown in farm economy in 1975 and 1976 outlook
Kansas City AP reports the December Monthly Review by C Edward Harshbarger of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City finds the agricultural economy improved in the second half of 1975 with a favorable 1976 outlook. Domestic demand should strengthen, aided by good weather, profit margins, foreign demand, and growth in the economy, though prices may face downward pressure due to ample supplies. Net income may dip slightly despite higher gross income.
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Kansas City
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
C. Edward Harshbarger
Kansas City Bank
Harshbarger
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Orlando
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