USDA to Question Employees About Their Work
Agriculture Secretary Bergland orders interviews for all USDA staff from high salaries to clerks as part of zero based budgeting. The aim is to justify each employee’s role and cut programs that cannot be justified, with interviews beginning in March for the 1978-79 budget.
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Washington
Bob Bergland
USDA
Bergland
Agriculture Department
Johnson
Minnesota
Ford
Great Plains
Michigan
Pilot whales beach at Mayport Florida in mass stranding
About 200 pilot whales stranded along the St Johns River mouth near Mayport with half dead or dying after a two day rescue push. Marine patrol says efforts to herd survivors back to sea continued as scientists collect brains and inner ear parasites to test a theory they cause disorientation.
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Mayport
Fla
Ort George Inlet
St. Johns River
Florida Marine
Ed Thomas
Thomas
Don Forrester
University of Florida
Gulf
Atlantic
USW elects new leader in pivotal labor race
In Pittsburgh, United Steelworkers voters choose between establishment candidate Lloyd McBride and reformer Edward Sadlowski for the $75,000 job of retiring President I W Abel. The outcome could steer the AFL CIO giant and impact national labor strategy amid turnout and regional dynamics.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
I.W. Abel
USW
Sadlowski
McBride
Chicago-Gary
Abel
David McDonald
Arkansas Race Talk and Controversy Across State News
City Director A M Keith accuses Police Chief Gale Weeks of racism over hiring practices in Little Rock. In Sheridan, Judge Henry B Means fixes a transcript to reflect prosecutor John Cole’s refusal to apologize before contempt fine. Missouri legislature mourns Rep Ivan Rose. Jury chooses in $1.3 million Hurly Co soybean ownership case. Falls criticizes state Social Services Board."
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Little Rock
A. M. Keith
Gale F. Weeks
Keith
The
Arkansas Times
Weeks
Arkansas Gazette
Sheridan, Ark
Henry B. Means
Malvern
John Cole
Cole
Means
House
Ivan Rose
Rogers
Senate
Texarkana
Harold Falls
Wynne
State Social Services Board
Carter set to propose modest budget changes for 1978
President Carter is expected to request only limited shifts from Ford’s 1978 plan, seeking about 15 billion more in outlays to total around 455 billion if approved. The budget aims to preserve key defense and welfare programs while restoring some cuts proposed by Ford, with final decisions pending congressional review.
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Carter
Washington
Gerald K Ford
Congress
Ford
Office of Management and Budget
Congressional Joint Economic Committee
Bert Lance
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Princeton student rebuffs two bomb plans requests
John A. Phillips 21 of New Haven says two foreign embassies in Washington sought his atomic bomb blueprint and research material. He refused both requests and notified the CIA and Senator Proxmire, who called the incident a sign of nuclear proliferation concerns.
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Princeton, NJ
Princeton University
John A. Phillips
New Haven
Phillips
CIA
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Senate
Defense Appropriations
Proxmire
Pakistan
India
Iqvas Butt
Butt
U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration
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Seo
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Illinois
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U.S. District Court
Hurly Co
Newport
Ark
Harry W. Wellford
Tral
First National Bank of Memphis
Hurley
Baton Rouge
Department of Public Safety
Arkansas
Mid-Continent Inc
Subcommittee On Transportation
Joint Legislative Committee On Transportation, Highways and Public Works
Mid- Continent
Louis Diachler Jr
Eunice
Mid-Continent
NBC
New York
National Broadcasting Company
U.S
Herb Schlosser
Delco
General Wesise Honor
Master Change Banc Amencard Deners Clueimencan Express
Fleet Tire Service
THURS
FBI
Batter Values Village
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