Labor union accuses statistics bureau of gimmickry
AFL-CIO charges the Bureau of Labor Statistics used seasonal adjustment gimmickry to inflate January unemployment declines. It says applying 1973 formulas would halve the drop, while the government says the rate fell from 8.3 to 7.8 percent, noting routine yearly revisions and a teen unemployment tweak. Burton Malkiel says results align under both old and new methods.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Afl-Cio
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The
Labor Organization
Federation
Burton G. Malkiel
Ford
Council of Economic Advisers
Labor Bureau
Hearst Testimony Details Flight After 1974 Bank Robbery
Miss Hearst testifies in her own defense about events after the April 15 1974 bank robbery. She describes the SLA journey with accused members facing murder sentences, implicates helpers, and recounts a May 1974 Los Angeles shootout video. She disputes surrender under fear of police killings and recalls a farmhouse stay and a New York stop where she used the name Pearl.
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Miss Hearst
SLA
Fife
Los Angeles
Bailey
Tania
Hearsts
Harrises
Jack Scott
Jeffersonville
N.Y
New York City
Pearl
Ford policy debate highlights domestic surveillance limits
The discussion centers on National Security Agency limits and exceptions for domestic intelligence, with extra focus on counter espionage and security checks. Atty General Levi to issue separate guidelines within 90 days for the FGI. The coal tax bill draws wide turnout from miners and residents across Wise, Dickinson, Buchanan, Lee, Tazewell, and Russell counties as lawmakers hear testimony. Buchanan invokes the blood of coal miners and black lung as he argues southwest Virginia bears heavy coal costs.
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National Security Agency
United States
U.S
FGI
Atty
Edward H. Levi
Wise
Dickinson
Buchanan
Lee
Tazewell
Russell Counties
House
Virginia
Government Probes Rising Auto Repair Part Costs
Washington AP government agency to study why replacement auto parts rise faster than cars. The Council on Wage and Price Stability will gather data from four big automakers and selected suppliers, focusing on crash parts while including maintenance parts. Wholesale car prices rose 12.9 percent in 1974 and 6 percent last year, but parts costs jumped 23.6 percent in 1974 and 9.2 percent last year.
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Washington
Council
Consimer
Mercury Use Banned in Pesticides and Paints by EPA
The EPA bans mercury use in most pesticides and in paints citing health hazards. The action follows a case in Alamogordo New Mexico where a family suffered nervous system damage after consuming meat from pigs fed mercury-treated seed. The ban also targets emissions from chlor alkali plants and limits mercury release into waterways. The agency notes prior use in paints and varnishes kept bacteria in can coatings and fungicidal mildew prevention.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Alamogordo
N.M
Japan
Iraq
New York Students Pay for Subway Vandalism
Chelsea Vocational High School students raised 626 for subway damage after vandals broke seats lights and windows on a Chelsea train. They collected donations from about half the 1100 students with many giving lunch money and older youths responsible for the effort.
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New York
Manhattan Vocational High
Joseph Quintessemza
Chelsea Vocational High School
John G. de Roos
Transit Authority
Chelsea
Argentina Faces Crisis as Peron Moves to Reopen Congress
President Peron closed a special session prompting proposals to declare her unfit and impeach her. Interior Minister Ares said the session would reconvene next Wednesday. Military leaders prepared to act if no constitutional solution emerges amid 4000 political prisoners and decrees restricting deportation rights and habeas corpus.
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Congress
Peron
Roberto Ares
Executive Branch
Buervillas
Louse
Western Hemisphere
Snoopy Survives Sleep Decision After Return Home
In Homestead Florida three months after the Orris Sherin family asked a vet to put Snoopy to sleep a dog returned to their door with a wagging tail and new hair. Sherin says a vet charged 15 dollars and signed papers for euthanasia but an unnamed office worker reportedly kept Snoopy alive. The dog’s illness left him hairless and in misery before he reappeared healthy, prompting disbelief from the Sherin family including Kim and Christy.
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Homestead
Fla.ap
Orris Sherin
Snoopy
Sherin
Kim
Christy
Violent storm roils Southeast with tornadoes and damage
A violent storm swept from Mississippi to the Atlantic Ocean bringing tornadoes across Alabama Tennessee and South Carolina. The storm damaged homes including Jerry Cooper’s near Lake Junaluska and toppled a radio tower at WOHS in Shelby. Two light aircraft overturned near Andrews. One person was killed and 79 injured in Mississippi with injuries and property damage across several states as twisters hit western and central North Carolina and Georgia County in South Carolina.
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Oot
WOHS
Shelby
Alabama
Tennessee
South Carolina
Elaywood County Sheriff's Department
Jerry Cooper
Lake Junaluska
Bob
Associated Press
Mississippi
Atlantic Ocean
Carolinas
North Carolina
Qeonee County
Kissinger In Peru Faces Tumult Over Nationalization
Secretary Kissinger met President Morales Bermudez in Lima to discuss Peru’s nationalization of American property and related multi million dollar claims while protests and Cuba Angola intervention loomed. Officials noted Peru’s stance on nonalignment and tensions over human rights provisions in foreign aid.
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Lima
Peru
Henry A. Kissinger
Francisco Morales Bermudez
Angola
Kissinger
Havana
Gen
Morales Bermudez
Venezuela
Miguel Angel de la Flor
Pewith Central American Heads of State
Costa Rica
Nekt Webk
Salvador
Honduras
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Joseph Ecuyer Jr
Central Lockup
Labor
Bureau of Statistics
Labor Department
Hearst
Wage
New Hampshire
Moris Udair
Arizona
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Jimmy Carter
Carter
Udall
Argentina
Irea
Dora
National Weather Service
Noaa
Capt. of
Commerce
Wyoming
Utah
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
Wisconsin
TRORS
American National Boank and Trust
de la Flor
Cranston
Senate
Chile
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Latin America
Fed
Delco Shock Sale
General Tire
Delco
Stinson Tire CO
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