Machinists reject pact at Douglas
The 8 000 member International Association of Machinists District Lodge 720 rejected the latest contract proposal from McDonnell Douglas and authorized a strike. A union spokesman said a strike could come at any time with 77 percent voting to reject and 77 percent for strike authorization. Union officials cited cost of living pensions and salaries as issues and pledged rapid high level negotiations while maintaining readiness to strike if a fair contract isn’t offered. The lodge represents workers across Southern California and Cape Kennedy with more than 6 500 members.
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International Association of Machinists
District Lodge 720
McDonnell Douglas Corp
Ted Neima
Douglas Torrance
Neima
Ivan Lynch
Lynch
IAM
Douglas
Huntington Beach
Long Beach
Santa Monica
Palmdale
Cape Kennedy
Southland
Los Angeles Convention Center
Heavy gunfire after Indian siege at abbey near Gresham
National Guard said heavy gunfire erupted Sunday night around the abbey novitiate near Gresham Wisconsin as Indians evacuated after a 33 day occupation. A guard helicopter was fired upon. no injuries reported among guards. The Me nomine tribe was to receive title to the estate for $1 and other considerations upon end of the occupation. Marlon Brando and Rev James Groppi were reported inside the abbey Friday.
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Gresham
Wis
UPI
National Guard
Wisconsin
Shawano
Alexian Brothers
Marlon Brando
James Groppi
Milwaukee
Slasher hunt grips downtown LA and Hollywood streets
Police in Los Angeles wage a round the clock manhunt named the Slasher Squad for a weekend spree. Commander Pete Hagan says a convict from Tehachapi, Carl A. Eder, is not the prime suspect though police continue to pursue him. Public tips number receives hundreds of calls.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood
Pete Hagan
Hagan
Tehachapi
Carl A. Eder
Eder
Budget Row Shapes Ford Plan on Tax Cuts and Deficit
President Ford faces a $349 billion budget release as Ullman predicts cuts totaling $17 billion with one third aimed at retirees and low income groups. He expects Congress to trim defense, while energy policy and debt limits dominate talks ahead of a Georgia trip and a joint economic committee push to delay oil import fees.
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Ford
White House
Atlanta
Georgia
Capitol Hill
Joint Economic Committee of Congress
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Man dies after siege on Oakland house
A barricaded house near the Oakland Berkeley line ended with the occupant, identified as Simillion Ester, dying of gunshot wounds after escaping a tear gas siege. He had fired from a living room window around 2 PM, prompting four hours of tear gas and urban firefight before exiting and being shot by officers at 6 17 PM.
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Oakland-Berkeley
Simillion Ester
Providence Hospital
Ford asked to order FBI CIA cooperation
Senator Frank Church urged President Ford to direct the FBI and CIA to cooperate with the Senate committee investigating illegal surveillance. Church, chair of the panel, said cooperation would aid a serious, judicious inquiry and help run an open administration with forthcoming facts.
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Washington
UPD
Frank Church
Didaho
Ford
Senate
CIA
FBI
Church
Ford Administration
Soviet Wife Invites Husband to Join Emigrant in U S
Sergei Ignashev two weeks after his wedding leaves the Soviet Union after his visa expires. Diane, his wife, writes a formal invitation for his emigration and they plan to reunite in Chicago where she attends the University of Chicago. He expects to work in libraries or as a translator.
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Diane
Soviet Union
United States
Ignashev
Georgia
Library of Foreign Languages
Moscow
Sergei
Chicago
University of Chicago
Time reports FBI supplied Johnson with gossip on senators
Time magazine claims President Johnson regularly received confidential FBI material including a senator's sexual escapades and tapes of Martin Luther King Jr. bedroom activities. Hoover allegedly arranged the briefing as Johnson defended tapping as the worst thing in society.
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New York
UPI
Lyndon B. Johnson
FBI
Time Magazine
Time
J. Edgar Hoover
Johnson
Chicago
Martin Luther King Jr
Ex-official says FBI probed Agnew in 1968
Former FBI official Cartha D. DeLoach testified in 1973 that the bureau investigated Spiro Agnew shortly before the 1968 election at Lyndon B. Johnson's request. He said the probe aimed to uncover connections to South Vietnamese talks and to identify any contact between Agnew or Nixon and figures linked to Albuquerque.
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Agnew
Washington
Bureau
Spiro T. Agnew
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cartha D. DeLoach
Johnson
Howard H. Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Senate
DeLoach
White House
Paris
Nixon
Albuquerque
J. Edgar Hoover
Anna Chennault
Chennault
Vietnam
Washington Field Office
IRS probes its own spying on stars and public figures
The Internal Revenue Service began an investigation into charges that its agents spied on the sex lives drinking social activities and spending of figures including entertainer Danny Thomas and football star Joe Namath. The Miami News says spying ran from 1971 to 1973 under White House orders during Nixon era.
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Miami
UPD
Internal Revenue Service
Danny Thomas
Joe Namath
Miami News
White House
Nixon
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Menominee Warrior Society
Ken Boyd
Kenosha
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U.S
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State Department
LBJ
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New York Times Service
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Memorial Society
Mottell
East Third Street
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