Ford As Diplomat Opens Ford's European Trip and NATO Summit
Gerald Ford heads to Brussels for a NATO summit with stops in Austria Spain and Italy. The piece notes NATO strains U.S. leadership doubts and inter alliance frictions amid rising petroleum costs and arms exports while stressing that a two day summit cannot heal long standing rifts.
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Gerald Ford
Europe
NATO
Brussels
Austria
Spain
Italy
Portugal
Turkey
Greece
France
U.S
Paris
le Monde
United States
Lou Harris
Western Europe
Soviet Union
Move Toward Direct Election Of President Faces Long Hurdles
A national debate on replacing the electoral college with direct popular elections moves slowly. With 48 senators backing the amendment, it cleared a subcommittee and went to the Senate Judiciary Committee, but passage requires a constitutional amendment and ratification by three-fourths of the states. Most small rural states oppose similar moves, and even if approved, a final decision would take years.
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London Economist
Brussels
United States
Europe
Senate
Judiciary Committee
George Wallace
Washington
Wallace
Chester Arthur
Salaries Disclosure Battle Highlights Public Records
In Alamance County the Burlington Daily Times-News fought for a county official salary list after the county manager refused to release it. A court ruling forced the release, but a rival paper published the entire payroll, drawing criticism of press privacy and professional ethics.
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Alamance County
Burlington
Daily Times-News
Times-News
Alamance
Global Talks Track SALT and Trade in Geneva Diplomacy
The United States and Soviet Union aim to resume SALT talks around June 2 in Geneva as part of a broad diplomatic push. GATT negotiations may stretch to 1980 amid EEC policy disputes, while the Conference on Security and Cooperation seeks a postwar frontier accord. Brezhnev eyes a successful SALT II outcome ahead of his February party congress. A UN Law of the Sea session in Caracas stalled progress, with a fourth Geneva conference set to wrap by May. A potential Middle East Geneva conference hinges on Ford’s meetings with Sadat and Rabin in Salzburg and Washington.
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United States
Soviet Union
Geneva
Middle East
European Economic Community
EEC
Europe
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Mark Arnold Foster
Manchester Guardian
Russia
China
Brezhnev
Vladivostok
Ford
Washington
U.N
Caracas
New York City
Anwar Sadat
Salzburg
Austria
Vitehak Rabin
Civil Service Abuse Claims Shake Washington Bureaucracy
Washington editorial asserts civil service chiefs have manipulated hiring to favor politics, criticize discrimination, and reveal suppressed documents. It cites Hampton and Spain as examples, notes widespread favoritism, and lists cases across agencies, while calling for reform as Rep. Moss investigates.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
White House
Hampton
Bee
Calif
Nixon
Edward Nixon
Donald Nixon
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Jayne Spain
Frederick Malek
Malek
Curtis
Roman
Hruska
Nebraska
Federal Communications Commission
Mountaineer Senator instrumental in river access and preservation
Senator Lynwood Smith helped Ashe and Alleghany farmers secure riparian access as the General Assembly passed Wild and Scenic Program legislation preserving 25.5 miles of the New River from Dog Creek to the Virginia line. North Carolina can buy 1500 acres along both banks for beauty and access. Meanwhile a county disaster drill highlighted ambulance and ER coordination issues at a simulated school bus crash at A.J. Simeon Stadium.
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High Point
Lynwood Smith
New River
Virginia
General Assembly
Dog Creek
Ashe County
North Carolina
Smith
House
Senate
Ashe
Alleghany
Horneytown
Guil Rand
A.J. Simeon
Explorers / Post
Allen Jay School
Capital Viewpoint on Detente and a Soviet Technology Drain
The CAPITOL Viewpoint column argues that detente masks a cost to the United States in a growing technology drain to the USSR. It cites Anderson and Whitten warning that American firms export or license key tech from computing to aircraft, aiding a nation lagging in major fields while providing little reciprocal gain.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
United States
U.S.S.R
Exi ‘Exchange
State and Commerce
U.S
Soviet Union
Anderson and Whitten
West
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Joe Brown
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Robert Hampton
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Richard Nixon
Immigration Service
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California
Boston
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National Credit Union Administration
Capitol Hill
John Moss
Dcalif
Caayen
THE
Milwaukee Journal
Sen. Smith
Mountaineers
George A
Dan Wooley
Red Cross
Central High School
Laurie Allred
Ronda White
Cindy Osborne
Central
Dean B. Pruette
Ferndale
Pruette
L. L. Wilkinson
Rockford Road
South Carolina
Wilkinsons
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