Ford probes Alaska oil pipeline welding faults
Washington AP Ford orders high level fact finding to Alaska to assess welding records on the 800 mile Alyeska pipeline project. Officials fear 31 000 welds may lack proper X rays threatening completion by 1977 and raising cost and environmental concerns. Interior and transport secretaries to report findings.
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Alaska
Ford
Interior Department
White House
Ron Nessen
Transportation
William Coleman
Interior
Afhomas Kleppe
Transsportation
John Barnum
Nessen
Interior Detment
Chief Corp
Alyeska Pipe Line Service Co
Alyeska
Kent Frizzell
Arthur Andersen
John Melcher
D-Mont
House
House Subcommittee On Public Lands
Andersen
Melcher
North Slope
Valdez
California
Moscow Says Spacecraft is Normal After Launch
Moscow reports Soyuz 21 crew Boris Volynov and Vitali Zholobov aboard a normal craft after a night of checks. By 5 a.m. EDT they had completed 14 orbits. docking with the Salyut lab expected within the next two to three days.
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Moscow
Tass
Boris Volynov
Vitali Oon
Jyut 5 Space Laboratory
Vladimir Shatalov
Salyut
Pension Tax Status Clarified
New York report says the IRS notified Teamsters Central States Pension Fund trustees that employer contributions will remain deductible for tax purposes at least through August. A retroactive revocation previously threatened back taxes for employers and taxes for employees. the ruling addressed fund mismanagement concerns.
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Internal Revenue Service
Teamsters Union
Central States Pension Fund
Wall Street Journal
IRS
New York Times
Volkswagen Plant Deal Delayed Over Financing Issues
Volkswagen postponed naming New Stanton Pennsylvania as the U S assembly site citing unresolved long term financing. Gov Milton Shapp must intervene and a preliminary agreement is now expected by August 1 with Brock Park Ohio as a backup. Peak output eyed at 800 cars daily with about 5000 jobs.
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West Germany
Volkswagen
New Stanton
Pennsylvania
Milton Shapp
Toni Schmuecker
U.S
United States
Brock Park
Ohio
Chrysler
Reagan Talk Raps Ford and Carter on TV
Reagan used a 30 minute TV address to attack Ford and Carter without naming them. He warned against politics as usual and said bad policies must be replaced with good ideas, urging voters to choose values over labels in November. The address aired on ABC from Los Angeles.
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Ronald Reagan
White House
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Reagan
Associated Press
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Colorado
Carter
Democratic Congress
ABC
Lawmen Trap Thieves in Fake Business Sting
Washington report details a police FBI operation named Got Ya Again in a dummy trucking shop, arresting 140 suspects for selling 1.2 million dollars in stolen goods. The sting followed a February operation at a warehouse, P.F.F. Inc., and used undercover agents posing as criminals to film exchanges.
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Chicago
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H & H Trucking
FBI
Rico Rigatone
G.¥.A. Inc
P.F.F. Inc
Tire Strike Negotiations Off Again in Rubber Row
Cleveland AP reports the 12 week old rubber strike is off indefinitely after URW rejects Firestone final offer. Key disputes: wage increases and cost of living adjustments. About 60,000 workers idle in 47 plants nationwide as talks pause.
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Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
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Firestone
Wheat Harvest Is 63 Percent Complete
COLUMBIA Mo AP With 99 per cent of winter wheat ripened in Missouri cutting was in full swing last week and 63 per cent of the harvest completed Heavy rains increased soil moisture and hampered harvesting Twelve per cent of soil had surplus moisture 53 per cent adequate and 35 per cent short Soybean planting slowed by harvest remained 93 per cent planted Grain sorghum planting was percent complete The corn crop improved with seven per cent in excellent condition 69 per cent good and 23 per cent fair Six per cent of corn was in silking The Bootheel cotton crop improved but more than three fourths remained poor About 17 per cent of cotton was in squaring Second alfalfa cutting was 46 per cent complete and clover and timothy mixtures were 74 per cent harvested Pastures were fair to good.
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Columbia, Mo
Missouri
Missouri Crop and Livestock Report Service
4 Day Rites For Chinese Ex War Lord Chu Teh
China held four days of funeral rites for Chu Teh the former warlord and co founder of the Chinese Red Army who died at 90 after failing to respond to medical treatment Mao Tse tung headed the funeral committee and a state wake was planned with memorials and limited international participation. Chu once a peasant from Sichuan joined Sun Yat sun’s Revolutionary League and later aligned with the Communists after studying abroad in Paris and Germany his career spanned the Nanchang uprising and the Chingkang revolution.
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China
Chu Teh
Mao Tse-tung
Chinese Red Army
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Hsinhua
Mao
Dune
Chou En-lai
Szechuan
Yunnan Military Academy
Sun Yat-sen
Revolutionary League
Yuan Shih-kai
Yunnan
Yangtse
Paris
Germany
Nanchang
Chiang Kaishek
Kuomintang
Chingkang
Lehr May Not Take Part In Primary Race
Jefferson City Missouri AP State Auditor George Lehr says he may not support any Democratic governor candidate next month amid premature endorsement chatter by Joseph Teasdale. Lehr declined to endorse and noted potential November gains for Democrats while cautioning on the governor’s race. A long synthesis of partisan positions and an unrelated biographical note follow.
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George Lehr
Lehr
Joseph Teasdale
State Senate
William Cason
Senate
U.S. Senate
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Teasdale
Cason
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Tea
Adale
Charles Curry
Kansas City
Democratic National Committee
Missouri
James Baker
St. Louis County
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