Portugal to grant Angola independence on November eleventh
Portugal and Angola guerrilla leaders signed a pact paving a transition to independence by November. A three member council will lead from January with a 10 man defense council and a constituent assembly planned within nine months. Angola to elect a president and legislature after the transition.
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Angola
Penina
UPI
Francisco da Costa Gomes
Henry the Navigator
Costa Gomes
Agostinho Neto
Popular Movement For the Liberation of
Holden Roberto
Angolan Liberation Front
Jonas Savimbi
The
Union For the Total Liberation of Angola
Macao
Timor
Lisbon
Guinea
Mozambique
Sao Tome
Cape Verde Islands
Texas
Dean seeks meeting with Nixon after Watergate
John Dean, released from prison, says he would like to talk with Richard Nixon about their past but doubts an invitation to San Clemente. He praises Nixon's foreign policy strokes while saying the former president must address Watergate publicly, if able.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Richard Nixon
White House
John Dean
Dean
San Clemente
Nixon
Maureen
Mountain Ridge
Watergate
Cattle rustling slaughters fall after new ID system
Sacramento officials report a 12 percent drop in illegal cattle slaughters in 1974, reversing a three year surge. O.W. Hooton credits the new carcass identification process and a cattle theft investigators course for law officers as key factors, alongside agriculture and fish and game workers handling deer carcasses.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
O.W. Hooton
Department of Food and Agriculture
Bureau of Livestock Identification
Hooton
Agriculture and Fish and Game Department
William Slagle
Bureau
Slagle
California Legislature Briefs and Actions
Governor urged Californians to recall Dr. Martin Luther King’s compassion and non-violence. AB177 aims to end oil depletion allowances for oil firms and AB485 requires bonds of 100000. A new process links cattle carcasses to theft scenes aiding arrests and prosecutions. 1000 officers trained in 1974.
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Sacramento
United Press International
King
California Supreme Court rules anti-busing provisions unconstitutional
The court voids state anti-busing clauses from 1972 Proposition 21 while upholding repeal of fixed racial balance targets. In two Santa Barbara cases, the ruling centers on desegregation plans and public hearings linked to school board actions, with emphasis on preventing legal obstacles to busing for integration. The decision notes that de jure segregation must be addressed, not hindered, by limiting pupil assignments based on race.
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San Francisco
UPI
California Supreme Court
Santa Barbara
Board of Education Integration Committee
State Board of Education
School Board
Supreme Court
Dr King Birthday March Commemorates Civil Rights Leader
About 350 people gathered at City Hall for a rally honoring Martin Luther King Jr. with a litany for jobs and justice. Mayor Tom Bradley proclaimed MLK Day and praised King for fighting injustice and seeking jobs, justice, and equality. The event was led by black religious and civic groups alongside other nationwide rallies. Inglewood students observed the day as a district holiday with schools closed.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Martin Luther King Jr
City Hall
Tom Bradley
King
Inglewood
Calif
Grazing fee hike delayed to aid ranchers in tough year
Administration officials freeze grazing fees on federal lands at 1974 levels for 1975, saving ranchers an estimated 9 million dollars. Interior Secretary Morton and Agriculture Secretary Butz cite drought and hard economic times in Western states as the reason for the one year moratorium.
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Washington
UPI
Interior
Rogers C. B. Morton
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Bureau of Land Management
BLM
Forest Service
Mortgage Rates Seen Dropping as Housing Rebound Looms
Jerome Howard chief of Mortgage & Trust Inc. Houston predicts rates may fall from 9 to 8 percent by fall as housing starts rise and the housing industry could pull the economy out of recession. He urged separating FHA from HUD to become an independent public agency like Fannie Mae.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Mortgage Bankers Association of America
Jerome Howard
Mortgage & Trust Inc
Houston
Federal Housing Administration
Department of Housing and Development
Federal National Mortgage Association
Quakes in Southern California Not Related Seismologist Says
Pasadena reports three quakes over two days did not share a fault. Dr. Clarence Allen of Cal Tech notes a big quake is inevitable and stresses ongoing stress along the San Andreas fault despite no damage from these tremors.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
California
Clarence Allen
Cal Tech Seismological Laboratory
Los Angeles
Pacific Ocean
Los Angeles County
Orange County
Allen
San Andreas Fault
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