NFO approves four year term for president
Kansas City AP reports the National Farmers Organization backed a bylaws change to set a four year term for the president, with Oren Lee Staley defeating challenger Delano Paulson 1900 to 1463 as the amendment passed. Debate also led to broader changes including four-year terms for president and vice president teams, and staggered director terms. The convention discussed price supports, foreign ownership of farmland, and reducing funding for food stamp and other consumer programs.
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Kansas City
National Farmers Organization
Oren Lee Staley
Staley
Northwest Missouri
Militant Farm Organization
Delano Paulson
Dodge Center
Minn
NFO
Staley-Paulson
NFC
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Humphrey
Department of Agriculture
Humphrey Attacks Nixon-Ford Farm Policy
At the National Farmers Organization convention in Kansas City Senator Hubert Humphrey assailed the Nixon-Ford team for inflation tight money and high interest rates. He proposed farm policy reforms including price and income protections, stable supplies, transport support, dairy and livestock production, a market reserve, and continued food aid abroad. He criticized Butz and warned against ifs and buts in farm policy.
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Kansas City
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
National Farmers Organization
Nixon-Ford
Earl Butz
America
Humphrey
NFO
U.S
Train Hostages Without Heat In Dutch Rail Siege
In northern Holland 29 hostages aboard a stalled train face near freezing nights as heat fails. Two elderly captives released amid negotiations say an explosion a week earlier damaged power lines and left standby batteries powering the heater depleted.
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Amsterdam
The
Netherlands
Holland
Fifty Million From US To Aid Angola Fight
The United States has provided close to fifty million dollars in military aid to UNITA and FNLA factions in Angola's civil war. Senator Dick Clark said the figure is near, but declined to confirm exact numbers due to classified information. Reports also mention Gulf Oil royalties and taxes tied to Angola, with CIA and Kissinger noting ongoing covert U.S. involvement via Zaire.
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Washington
Dick Clark
D-Idaho
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washington Post
New York Times
Clark
Subcommittee
Africa
Senate
Pete Smith
Zaire
National Union For the Total Independence of Angola
UNITA
National Front For the Liberation of Angola
FNLA
Popular Movement
the Liberation of Angola
MPLA
Jack Anderson
Gulf Oil Co
Angola
Anderson
Abc-Tv
Good Morning
America
CIA
Gulf
United States
Portugal
U.S
Henry Kissinger
Vo-Tech Second Semester Enrollment Opens in Mexico
Enrollment will open Monday Jan 19 at 7 p.m. for 26 second semester skilled classes at Mexico Area Vocational Technical School. A new Concrete Block Brick Laying course combines theory and hands on bricklaying. meets weekly for 15 weeks, taught by Charles Coleman from Columbia. Tuition is $25 plus books and materials. reservations by call 581-5684 to 16 years and older.
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Mexico Area
Spanish court frees Red leader Marcelino Camacho
Spain's top Communist labor leader Marcelino Camacho was released by court order from prison after being held without charge since Sunday. He had been pardoned on November 29 but rearrested during a planned demonstration by the outlawed Communist party. Camacho denied involvement in the attempted protest and said he would continue to push for amnesty for political prisoners.
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Madrid
Spain
Marcelino Camacho
Camacho
Communist Party
Carabanchel
Francisco Franco
Republic
Carlos Arias Navarro
Franco
Luis Carrero Blanco
Barcelona
Paris
Santiago Carrillo
Arias
Jose Maria Areilza
Count of Motrico
Washington
Manuel Fraga Iribarne
Britain
Antonio Garriguez Diaz Canabate
Vatican
Count of Motrice
Fraga Iribarne
Diaz Canabate
Fraga Tribarne
Manuel Mellado
Postal Deficit Deepens for Postal Service Amid Losses
The financially ailing Postal Service reports a deficit of 989 million dollars for the last fiscal year, 161 million more than forecast due to underestimated workers compensation costs. A rate increase to 13 cents per first class letter takes effect December 28 as the service projects a 1.4 billion dollar shortfall next year.
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Washington
Postal Service
Labor Department
Post Office Department
Benjamin F. Bailar
Malpractice Bills Ready For Session
State Senator Albert M Spradling unveils three bills to curb rising malpractice insurance premiums. He chairs the interim Senate committee on malpractice and aims to protect consumers and legal rights while targeting incompetent doctors. One bill would extend licensing powers to reexamine physicians. another would create a malpractice review board of doctors lawyers and a judge to screen cases before court.
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Jefferson City
Albert M. Spradling
Marcus Welby
Missouri
Cape Girardeau
Spradling
Senate
State Board of Healing Arts
Republicans List Five Issues For Missouri Session
Missouri House Republicans adopted a five item platform for the upcoming General Assembly session. Crime control modernization of the legislature economic development judicial reform and a county government option top the GOP priority list.
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Jefferson City
General Assembly
Missouri House Republicans
GOP
Robert C. Snyder
Christopher S. Bond
State Bureau of Investigation
Missouri
Trip Sentenced At Columbia For Robbery
Two Columbians and a Mexico Maryland man were sentenced to prison after convictions for second degree robbery in an extortion plot against Carl Berryman. Linzle and Bowen each got five years, Richardson four, with probation requests to be heard December 22.
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Columbia
Mexico
Carl Berryman
Boone County
Frank Conley
William E. Linzle
Ruth Ann Bowen
James W. Richardson
Berryman
Linzie
Bowen
Conis
Richardson
Caesar's Palace
Callaway County
Moscone Wins San Francisco Mayor Race Over Barbagelata
George Moscone, a liberal state Senator, narrowly defeats conservative county supervisor John Barbagelata in a contest to succeed Joseph Alioto as San Francisco mayor. Moscone vows to prove he is not an irresponsible big spender and will take office January 8. Moscone led Barbagelata by 13 percentage points in the 11 candidate primary.
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San Francisco
George Moscone
Moscone
John Barbagelata
Joseph Alioto
Barbagelata
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