New Americans face tough job market amid refugee arrivals
The article notes 8.5 million unemployed amid recession as Vietnamese refugees adapt to U S life. INS commissioner Chapman says refugees won’t steal jobs. 27 600 released into the mainstream, with 140 000 predicted and 60 percent children. California Gov Brown proposes Jobs for Americans Plan at 350 million dollars. Cases in San Francisco and San Antonio show families taking any work, while adjusting to new life and financial strain.
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Leonard Chapman Jr
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
U.S
Chapman
Edmund Brown Jr
California
Ford
Robert Gnaizda
OPEC weighs price moves at vital meeting in Libreville
OPEC ministers gather in Libreville Gabon for a three day session to consider protecting petrodollar revenues amid inflation and a weaker dollar. They weigh halting dollar pricing or tying prices to an inflation index while signaling possible price increases to defend revenues.
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Overriding Ford Veto Threat Faces House Vote on Strip Mining
House set to vote Tuesday on a bill to curb strip mining and require restoration of stripped land. Rep. Morris Udall accuses administration of misleading economic guidance while Sen. Lee Metcalf argues utilities spread misleading information. Officials from FEA and EPA defend veto stance as fragmented data debate continues.
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Lee Metcalf
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Wallace stalls loyalty pledge as governors clash over 1976 bid
at the 67th National Governors Conference in New Orleans Alabama Governor George Wallace defends his candidacy while rejecting a party loyalty oath and criticizes calls to pledge support if he wins. He faces attacks over health and staunch opposition from Democratic leaders including Governor Calvin Rampton and Wisconsin's Patrick Lucey.
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Florida
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Wisconsin
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Neighbors aid paralyzed father at son's graduation
In Wheaton Illinois the Rev John Thompson paralyzed for 20 years rode a specially modified hospital bed 500 miles from Wanesburg Pennsylvania to attend his son’s graduation. Neighbors funded the trip and prepared a bed to fit the station wagon for the baccalaureate and graduation ceremonies.
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Smuts Flies to London for Liver Treatment After Tanzanian Ordeal
Barbara Smuts, 24, an American Stanford student released by Zaire guerrillas, travels to London for medical care for an undiagnosed liver ailment. Fellow students say the disease existed before the May kidnapping in Tanzania and she has been bedridden since release. Other Stanford students Carrie Hunter and Kenneth Smith remain in captivity along with Emilie Bergmann, a Dutch girl.
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London
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Ann Arbor, Mich
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Popular Revolution Party
Belgian Congo
Mobutu Sese Seko
Carrie Jane Hunter
Atherton
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Garden Grove
Stanford
Emilie Bergmann
Ford to Speak on CIA Probe Tonight on TV
President Ford will hold a nationally televised news conference at 7 30 p m EDT to outline the Rockefeller commission report on U S intelligence agencies He is expected to release the 350 page document while withholding the section alleging CIA plots to kill foreign leaders He may hand that part to the Senate Church Committee for review
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CIA weapon of presidency critique from ex-official
Victor Marchetti, a former CIA official, calls the agency a secret weapon of the presidency and warns Congress must control it. He says the CIA serves powerful elites, not democracy, and questions domestic assassination ties though he has no direct knowledge of such actions.
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