Douglas Aircraft Layoffs Hit 40 Percent at Long Beach Plant
Layoffs will cut about 40 percent of Douglas Aircraft Co. in Long Beach amid a four week strike by Machinists. Up to 1,000 engineers may be affected as 6,500 workers are eyed for furlough this week. The plant, final assembly site for DC9 and DC10, also makes parts for A4 jets and F4 wings, with Torrance parts stalled by the strike. Unemployment claims processing will be organized at UAW Lakewood HQ Pixie Ave. and eligibility will include both union and nonunion workers.
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Douglas Aircraft Co
Long Beach
McDonnell Douglas Corp
Douglas
McDonnell Douglas
International Association of Machinists
United Auto and Aerospace Workers Union
Chuck Chappell
Aerospace Workers Union
Air Force
Torrance
State Employment Service
UAW
Lakewood
Pixie Ave
Vincent Sullivan
Pixie Avenue
Sullivan
House Subcommittee Backs Cambodian Military Aid With Conditions
A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee voted 4 to 3 to approve up to 136 million dollars in emergency Cambodian military aid, conditioned on steps toward ending the conflict by June 30, 1975. The vote followed a 189 to 49 party line defeat in the Democratic Caucus and mirrored a concurrent Senate action. The panel also tied three other conditions, urging Lon Nol’s government to pursue talks with Khmer Rouge, seek peaceful settlement, and ensure safe departures for those leaving Cambodia.
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Washington
House
Cambodia
House Foreign Affairs
Senate
Ford Administration
Condi
Tional
U.S
Democratic Caucus
Lon Nol
Stans Pleads Guilty in Watergate Campaign Case
Maurice H. Stans, former Commerce Secretary, pleads guilty to a five count misdemeanor linked to Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign. He is released on personal recognizance with sentencing date open. Prosecutors say each count carries up to $1000 fine and one year in prison.
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Washington
UPI
Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Richard M. Nixon
Stans
U.S
John Lewis Smith
Greenspan sees jobless rate hit nine percent by summer
Greenspan, noted as Ford's chief economic adviser, told the Senate Budget Committee unemployment could climb to 9 percent by summer, with more than 8 million out of work as 8.2 percent rose in January and February. UAW warned Chrysler white collar benefits may expire. funds dwindle from 5.5 million to 428 thousand this week.
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Ford
Alan Greenspan
Council of Economic Advisers
Senate Budget Committee
Greenspan
Unem
Chrysler
Walter W. Heller
University of Minnesota
Congess’ Joint Economic Committee
Senate Banking Committee
Federal Reserve Board
House Approves Nearly 6 Billion Emergency Jobs Plan
The House passed a 5.9 billion emergency-employment bill 313 to 113, aiming to create about 2 million jobs. President Ford urged veto considerations on the extra 4 billion while Republican leaders sought deeper cuts totaling 2.8 billion. The measure heads to the Senate.
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Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Rebels shell Phnom Penh airfield amid intensifying strike
Communist led gunners pounded Pochentong airport in Phnom Penh for an eighth straight day with 43 rockets and artillery shells. U.S. and Cambodian officials noted increasing accuracy and ongoing airlift limits amid heavy fire and a government operation stalled northwest of the airfield. President Lon Nol presided over a ceremony to reorganize the army.
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Phnom Penh
Pochentong
Lon Nol
Chamcar Mon Palace
Saigon Mobilizes as Sixth Capital Falls in Vietnam
South Vietnam declares general mobilization after Buon Ho and Dau Tieng fall to Communist forces. Ban Me Thuot endures four days of house to house fighting with heavy shelling. About 5,000 civilians flee Dau Tieng as militia retreats.
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Saigon
UPI
South Vietnam
Buon Ho
Dau Tieng
Ban Me Thuot
Viet Cong Downed DC4 Airliner Killing 26 In Central Highlands
North Vietnamese forces shot down a South Vietnamese airliner in the Central Highlands on Wednesday. All 26 aboard died, including Australian chargé d affaires Graham Lewis and three Americans listed as KR Seidl Ed Dolan and J Louis. There were six crew and 20 passengers. one American reportedly worked for the U S Agency for International Development.
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Saigon
Central Highlands
U.S
Hanoi
Graham Lewis
KR. Seidl
Ed Dolan
J. Louis
U.S. Agency For International Development
Two passersby rescue motorist from burning car
Edmund T. Hickey, 24, of Redondo Beach, suffered severe burns when his car crashed on the Third Street onramp to the Long Beach Freeway. Two men, Terry Lee Bare, 23, of Paramount, and a second passerby, pulled him from the wreck just before the vehicle exploded into flames. Hickey was listed in critical condition at St. Mary Medical Center. authorities blocked the onramps as the blaze raged.
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Edmund T. Hickey
Redondo Beach
Long Beach
Hickey
St. Mary Medical Center
Don First
Charles Gay
Terry Lee Bare
S. Garfield Ave
Paramount
Bare
Third
Seventh Street
Hearst aides in Pa. face federal indictments
Indictments to be sought in Harrisburg against persons accused of harboring Patricia Hearst. News reports cite US attorney John Cottone saying charges will be filed in the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Hearst was believed to be in northeastern Pennsylvania near the Wolfe family home.
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Harrisburg
Patricia Hearst
San Francisco Chronicle
Scranton
Tribune
John Cottone
Middle District
Pennsylvania
The
Wolfe
Dr. L.S. Wolfe
Miss Hearst
Emmaus
Weather forecast: partly cloudy with mild temperatures
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Todd Shipyards Loses Tanker Orders Totaling 116 Million
Todd Shipyards reports cancellations of three ocean tanker orders worth about 116 million dollars from the U S Maritime Subsidy Board. The firm cites government convenience and declines to elaborate. The stoppages raise Todd’s tanker losses to five in the last month, though employment will not change.
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Todd Shipyards Corp
U.S. Maritime Subsidy Board
Todd
Stewart Jones
Suspect Seized in 1969 Radical Bombings
News brief notes a suspect linked to the 1969 bombings has been seized. The report appears in a compact wire-like item with emphasis on the arrest context and lack of further details.
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Douglas Force
Charles Sutton
Maurice Stans
United Auto Workers
Douglas Fraser
James Lynn
Robert Michel
Michel
Combined News Services
James R. Schlesinger
Associated Press
Neal Ulevich
Edmund Hickey
Roger Coar
Patty Hearst
Inside Today Independent
Brown
Todd Thomey
Television
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