Ford signs Congress pay hikes
President Ford signed legislation boosting pay for Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Congress members, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, and other high level officials. The bill aligns top officers with civil service raises of 8.6 percent, or Ford may seek a 5 percent compromise if Congress rejects the smaller amount. The measure costs about 52 million dollars and affects salaries of 36000 dollars and up.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
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Supreme Court
Bureau of Labor Standards
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Israel Sends Delegations to U S to Discuss Sinai Pact
Two high level Israeli delegations traveled to Washington to press for aid and financing for a Sinai settlement with Egypt. The talks aim to secure 350 million dollars yearly for compensation over Abu Rudeis and 150 million for a new Sinai defense line, atop 2.5 billion in 1976 aid. Egypt and U S diplomacy show mixed optimism amid ongoing peace talks.
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Mordechai Gazit
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Israel
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United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Cairo
Hermann F. Eilts
Ismail Fahmi
Alexandria
Fahmi
Eilts
Anwar Sadat
Eilis
Sadat
Ford
Thousands battle Communists in Braga Portugal
In Braga a mob attacked the Communist headquarters as leftist Marines were deployed to protect 20 Communists trapped in a garden. Police report gunfire, teargas, and grenades with uncertain fate for those inside the burning building. three injured.
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UPI
Braga
Worst Ireland rioting wrecks Belfast neighborhood
In Belfast the worst Northern Ireland religious rioting in four years left a Catholic area ablaze and two children dead. Protests and clashes surged along the peace line as British troops patrolled the Shankhill and Falls Roads and police used rubber bullets and tear gas.
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Northern Ireland
UPI
Shankhill Road
Catholic Falls Road
Falls Road
Irish Republican Army
IRA
North Armagh
Court Rules Tariff to Reduce Oil Imports Unconstitutional
A federal appeals panel ruled President Ford's January 1975 order raising license fees on imported crude oil and petroleum products unconstitutional. The decision found the administration lacked authority to impose the fees, affecting eight states ten utilities and others awaiting possible refunds and swift implementation. The ruling cites the surge in foreign oil spending and the 1973 embargo as context while noting the path is direct import control only via quotas.
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UPI
Federal Energy Administration
Ford
Richard M. Nixon
Robert F. Drinan
D-Mass
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Supreme Court
Commission to hear nursery school permit tonight
The Planning Commission meets at City Hall at 7 30 p m to consider a conditional use permit for a Montessori nursery school at Peace Lutheran Church complex 1000 West on for about 30 children aged 3 6. Also on the agenda are land division near Central and Barton, fence height modification at 924 West Olive, and nuisance action against Bantz Mobile Home Sales.
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City Hall
Donald
Grace van Bemmel
Peace Lutheral
Weston
Central Ave
Barton Ave
West Olive Ave
Bantz Mobile
Hoffa Case Heads to Grand Jury in Disappearance
Detroit UPI reports U.S. Attorney Ralph Guy Jr. will empanel a federal grand jury to probe the July disappearance of James R. Hoffa former Teamsters president. The investigation shifts after a blood stain in a car linked to Hoffa’s foster son proved nonhuman, focusing on new witnesses and tips nationwide.
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UPI
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Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
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Machus Red Fox
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Tony Jack’ Giacalone
Lake Orion
Charles
Chuckie’ O’brien
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Giacalone
Joe
Detroit Teamsters
Robert Holmes
Proxmire accuses Lockheed of paying foreign bribes
Sen. William Proxmire charges Lockheed Aircraft Corp. paid bribes to foreign officials to promote the L1011. He calls for hearings and questions whether loan guarantees under the 1971 act were based on false representations. Lockheed admits paying at least 22 million but withholds recipient names.
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