Ford to act to block rail strike with emergency board
President Ford expected to invoke emergency action under the Railway Labor Act to form a Presidential Emergency Board and delay a potential nationwide railroad strike for 60 days. The union could walk out at 12:01 a.m. Friday unless intervention occurs, with action anticipated Wednesday.
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Ford
Brotherhood of Railway
Airline
Railway Labor Act
Kissinger
S. America
ERA rescission tested in Texas House committee hearing
A nine hour hearing on a proposal to rescind Texas ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment moved to a subcommittee. Rep Bill Hilliard backed the measure, arguing ERA is unnecessary and uncertain while witnesses on both sides pressed the case during the lengthy session in Austin.
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Joanne Little
William Griffin Jr
Beaufort County
Dan McDonald
Associated Press
Austin, Tex
House
Texas
Constitutional Revision Committee
Ray Hutchison
Dallas
Bill Hilliard
D-Fort Worth
Hilliard
Tobolowsky
ERA
Hutchison
Sidney Buchanan
University of Houston
LAW School
Rod Schoen
Texas Tec
Schoen
U.S. Naval Reserve
Abilene
Glenn Heatherly
Heatherly
Louise Johnson
Louisiana
Congress
Mrs. Johnson
Joe Wyatt
D-Bloomington
Bill Sullivant
Gainesville
Chris Miller
Bob Close
D-Perryton
Wilhelmina Delco
Bell sues to recover misappropriated Bell funds
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. files two suits in San Antonio seeking accounting and restitution from former executive James H. Ashley and the Gravitt family, alleging falsified vouchers and misappropriation of company property. Gravitt’s widow is named in the estate action. The Ashley Gravitt suit prompts multiple state and federal probes.
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San Antonio, Tex
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Bell
James H. Ashley
T.O. Gravitt
Texas
Ashley
Gravitts
Gravitt
Bexar County
Ashley and the Gravitts
Ashley-Gravitt
Skeletons found far from family camp in Oregon
Remains of Richard Cowden 27 and Belinda 22 with children David 5 and Melissa 5 months were found 60 miles northwest of Copper Oregon. Two skulls showed bullet holes but investigators offered no killer or motive. The family vanished Sept 1 1974 while camping near Carberry Creek, south west of Medford after a failed plan to borrow a truck for Labor Day.
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Ore
Oregon
Richard Cowden
Belinda
David
Melissa
Mark Kezar
Copper
Cowdens
Kezar
Forest Grove
Allan West
Marvin Proctor
Cowden
White City
Carberry Creek
California State Line
Pentagon official rebuts Church figure on Vietnam losses
Erich von Marbod cites $780 million in weapons and gear lost or destroyed by retreating South Vietnamese troops, saying his findings use actual historic prices for tanks and aircraft and current costs for consumables. He expect costs to climb with lost support gear and U.S. built bases now in North Vietnam, possibly billions.
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Washington
Pentagon
Ford
Erich von Marbod
Fred Weyand
Vietnam
Sen
Frank Church
D-Idaho
von Marbod
Church
United States
Beirut battles rage as gunfire grips city streets
Beirut police report about 80 dead and over 100 wounded as Palestinian guerrillas clash with the Phalangist private army for a third day. Fighting concentrates in five suburbs with snipers on rooftops. Premier Solh resists deploying the Lebanese army despite cabinet threats.
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Lebanon
Pierre Gemayel
Phalangist
Rashid Solh
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