Ford set to sign $4 billion job bills to ease recession
Ford expected to sign the last of three job bills delivering about $4 billion to spawn new public work programs and extend unemployment relief. The programs target roughly 630,000 potential hires but face slow rollout, oversight, and mixed local execution amid a rising jobless rate.
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Ford
CETA
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Labor Department
Jack Hashen
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Manpower Administration
Richard M. Nixon
Philadelphia
Newark
N.J
North Vietnamese push toward Phuoc Binh city
In Saigon reports say North Vietnamese forces backed by tanks renewed assaults on Phuoc Binh, breaching parts of the perimeter. Government troops, aided by air strikes and reinforcements, defend a city of about 26,000 as casualties mount. The Hon Soc base camp in the Mekong delta also fell to North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces.
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South Vietnam
Phuoc Binh
Phuoc Long
Cambodia
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le Trung Hien
Hien
Mekong
Hon Soc
Eye Fate of Boston School Opens Talks on Reopening
Boston AP report says the city school superintendent plans talks with representatives of Mayor White and Gov. Dukakis on reopening the racially troubled South Boston high school complex. Leary invited both officials to discuss security needs but they declined a personal meeting.
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Solomon
Peter J. Brennan
CETA
Brennan
Labor Department
Boston
South Boston
William Leary
Kevin H. White
Michael
Dukakis
White
Leary
Milk Bill Vetoed and Butz Action Mark Milk Price Shift
President Ford vetoed a bill to raise retail milk prices by six cents a half gallon, calling it inflationary. Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz then announced an administrative move to raise manufacturing milk support to 7.24 per 100 pounds, about half the vetoed amount, effective through the 1976 marketing year. In Boston, safety concerns persist as South Boston High remains closed after a December stabbing amid a desegregation plan, with court and police actions ongoing and discussions of an educational site replacement.
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Leary
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Roxbury
U.S. District Court
W. Arthur Garrity Jr
White
Garrity
Congress
William B. Saxbe
OPEC
State Department
Venezuela
Ecuador
Ford Signs Sweeping Trade Bill With Mixed Hopes
President Ford signed a broad trade reform measure granting authority to reduce tariffs for a new round of negotiations while voicing caution about linkage to emigration and OPEC policy. He pledged the bill helps avert economic crises as oil and food pressures rise, despite Soviet and OPEC objections.
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OPEC
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