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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1975
Page
8
President Ford rejected the bill raising federal milk price supports and another funding nurses training on inflation grounds. He authorized a smaller raise by order and said Congress should pursue broader health personnel training legislation. He signed several bills including tax relief for POWs and missing soldiers.
A White House spokesman said Ford had nothing to add to Kissinger’s warning that the United States could use military force in the Middle East only in a gravest emergency. Kissinger said he reflects the President’s views. Reports said Camp David talks considered force as an option amid oil price crisis.
Sen. Barry Goldwater argues for a CIA like covert operation to protect security warning against liberal media, citing New York Times disclosures on domestic spying. He says the CIA charter allows NSC orders and could operate domestically for protection, defending press rights versus life and liberty.
President Ford signed a trade bill aimed at MFN status with nondiscriminatory terms for Russia and others, while labor groups warned of harm to domestic jobs. The act lets Congress withdraw MFN from Russia in 18 months if Brezhnev promises emigration progress. Tass called the linkage unacceptable and Venezuela criticized the measure as risking oil relations. Geneva talks on tariff cuts are planned for February as part of this push.
The article notes inflation and congressional cuts pressuring the defense budget. In constant dollars the Pentagon budget has leveled off and now sits below a decade ago, a point Schlesinger is expected to argue. It suggests inflation may force a congressional reexamination of true defense needs and affordability.
A four year old Lakewood boy, William Claude Green, rode his tricycle into the street and was struck by a car driven by Rob B. Levinson. He died at Lakewood Doctors Hospital at 5 p.m. shortly after the crash. Police released the incident details.
The FBI warns of more extortion threats to bomb U S cities with nuclear weapons as publicity over stolen radioactive material grows. Seven threats were investigated in the last year to Boston Des Moines San Francisco and Lincoln Nebraska though no actual thefts or bombs were reported. The agency notes increased investigations under the Atomic Energy Act and reports rising Soviet bloc official presence and white collar crime convictions in fiscal 1974.
A 22 year old man with developmental disability who had been missing 13 days was found in the County USC Medical Center psychiatric ward. Doctors identified him from news reports and contacted Lynwood police who reunited him with his parents.
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