CIA Halloween prank targets Washington with spoof job poster
A mock CIA recruitment poster titled Operation Pumpkin 1975 circulates in Washington with jobs such as assassin and provocateur listed and promises like tax shelters and immunity. The CIA denies distributing the posters though the release claims a committee of 60 concerned individuals created them.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Washington, D.C
Central Intelligence
Internal Revenue Service
HEW reports $411 million savings from welfare cleanup
The HEW said during January 1974 to July 1975 states removed about 270000 ineligible AFDC recipients and corrected 209000 overpayments and 73000 underpayments. Nevada met all three goals. most states hit at least one. Some officials questioned the targets and methods.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Hew
Nevada
John A. Svahn
AFDC
Svahn
Samuel C. Phillips Named VP at TRW Systems
Samuel C. Phillips, who led the Apollo program through the first Moon landing, was named vice president of TRW Systems in energy systems management in a Friday announcement.
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Redondo Beach
Samuel C. Phillips
America
TRW Systems
Conferees drop antibusing pledge as energy bill gains
Congress conferees reject a Republican bid to end federal oil price controls and vote 16 to 8 along party lines to keep price controls. A 3 to 2 House vote rejects a antibusing measure tied to the energy bill, with concerns over enforceability and fuel use for school transport.
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Washington
Senate
Ford
Dewey Bartlett
R-Okla
House
Conference Committee
J. Bennett Johnston
D-La
Udall Attacks Ford in South at Southern Conference
Rep Morris K Udall urged Southern Democrats to back his presidential bid saying Ford is a disaster for the country and cannot endure four more years. He criticized Ford for pardoning Nixon and for abandoning New York City at the Democratic Forum's Southern Regional Conference in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
Morris K. Udall
Arizona
America
Ford
Nixon
New York City
Food stamp rolls fall by 300000 in September
The September decline reduced participation to 18.5 million, the smallest monthly total since February and the largest one month drop since the downturn began. The rolls peaked at 19.5 million in April with nearly four million on aid due to recession unemployment.
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Washington
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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