Grain deal boosts Soviet purchases amid mixed US reactions
President Ford lifted the grain sales moratorium after a Russian harvest shortfall spurred a 9.8 million ton U.S. export surge. The Soviet Union will buy at least six million metric tons annually with optional two million more, from 1976 to 1981, while critics warn of government intervention in markets and potential price effects for consumers.
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Ford
Aflcio
George Meany
International Longshoremen's Association
Soviet Union
U.S
Earl Butz
Butz
New York City Austerity Plan Faces Uncertain Details
City officials approve a broad austerity plan amid layoffs and spending cuts with about 21 000 workers already fired. Debate over federal loan guarantees continues as Beame seeks 9 billion in aid while opponents threaten a filibuster and warn of harming local self government.
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Beame
House Banking Subcommittee
New York City
Banking Committee
Henry S. Reuss
D-Wis
Senate Banking Committee
William Proxmire
Dwis
White House
Ford
Lockheed
Richard Kelly
R-Fla
House
Senate
James B. Allen
Dala
New York
Allen
Mike Mansfield
Montana
State
Assassination Plot Ties Ford to Aug Travel Route
Indictments allege DeSure and Mayo plotted to kill the President with plans to steal dynamite and enter San Francisco arson. The suspects traveled through Cincinnati Dickson Tenn Woodland Hills Santa Barbara and Burbank before arrest in California.
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DeSure
Mayo
Glacier National Park
Montana
Cincinnati
Tennessee
California
Dickson
Tenn
Midwest City
Okla
Amarillo
Tex
Burbank
Woodland Hills
Santa Barbara
Zapata
Warm Springs
Mont
San Francisco
Sacramento
Ford
Miss Fromme
Sara Jane Moore
Court to hear cases on city limits for adult theaters
The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on whether cities may ban or restrict adult theaters and bookstores. It will review a 2-1 U.S. Circuit ruling from Cincinnati that struck down a Detroit ordinance adding adult theaters and bookstores to a regulated uses list. The ordinance barred such businesses within 1,000 feet of each other.
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Washington
Supreme Court
U.S. Circuit Court
Cincinnati
Detroit
Circuit Court
NYC finances drive California cities meeting speech
The League of California Cities convention featured urgent talk on New York City's debt crisis and potential nationwide effects. Senator Frank Church urged federal aid, warning that New York's fiscal troubles could ripple to places from Boise to San Francisco.
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Washington
Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
New York City
Congress
House
Thomas P. O’neil
Ford
New York
Rockefeller
Arthur Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Senate Banking Committee
Sen. Proxmire
Burns
House Committee On Banking, Currency and Housing
Millicent Fenwick
R-N.j
San Francisco
Frank Church
Ford seeks new rules for food stamp program
President Ford urges Congress to replace the food stamp plan with a system capping eligibility by poverty level, requiring 30 percent net income payments, and counting past earnings. Officials estimate 17 percent would lose benefits, 3.4 million people, while some gains could attract 775,000 more.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
Althoug
Butz
Ate Agriculture Committee
Herman E. Talmadge
D-Ga
Arson Fires Strike Carson Junior High Twice in Six Days
Investigators probe ashes at Stephen White Junior High after a 7 20 p m blaze damaged closets and a theater area causing 13 000 in losses. County crews extinguished the fire in 15 minutes. Earlier, a separate blaze damaged the gym and caused additional damage totaling 1 000 and 10 000 dollars. Evidence includes matches and flammable liquid.
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Carson Junior High
Stephen White Junior High School
S. Figueroa St
C.L. Hambleton
Hambleton
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William J. Kuhfuss
Chicago
New York Farm Bureau
Richard MecQuire
Ford Administration
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NFC
Oren Lee Staley
Corming
Iowa
Russia
Frank Zarb
Agriculture
L. William Seidman
Robert Zapata
DeLure
Nyc
Cal. Cities
Church
Earl L. Butz
Carson School
Bristol
Mfr. Sug. Retail
Pacific Coast Highway
Carls
Carl
Pacific Coast
Long Beach
SUN
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