Angola joins UN amid US abstention over Cuban troops
United Nations General Assembly admitted Angola as the 146th member in a 116 to 0 vote. The United States abstained to express disapproval of Cuban troops in Angola, after vetoing the Angolan application in the Security Council last June and reversing position last week on a second council vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
N.Y
Angola
General Assembly
United States
Africa
Security Council
Ford Will Not Jawbone Steel Firms On Price Rollback
White House officials say President Ford likely will not pressure the steel industry to roll back price increases, while incoming Democrats signal willingness to use jawboning. Mondale condemns the 6 percent rise on flat rolled steel as a risky inflationary move, aligning with Carter’s urging for rollback and recalling Kennedy’s 1962 use of jawboning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Ford
Walter F. Mondale
Mondale
Elect Carter
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
L. William Seidman
Council of Wage and Price Stability
Carter
Ford’s Brother Dies in Collision Near Lebanon
Leslie Henry King, 53, half brother of President Ford, was killed in a head on crash with a tractor trailer on Interstate 40 near Lebanon Tennessee. King, of Cookeville, owned an auto parts store and was alone in his car. The tractor driver Billy Hudson was uninjured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebanon
Tenn
Leslie Henry King
Ford
King
White House
Ron Hill
Tennessee
Cookeville
Death opponents vow concerted bid to halt Gilmore execution
Salt Lake City opponents of the death penalty plan a united effort to stop Gary Gilmore’s sunrise execution, while the case moves toward the U S Supreme Court. Gilmore seeks to face a five man firing squad, as delays and legal maneuvering unfold amid the first U S execution attempt since 1967.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ron Barker
Associated Press
Salt Lake City
Gary Gilmore
Utah
U.S. Supreme Court
Jinks Dabney
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Dabney
District Court
J. Robert Bullock
Robert van Sciver
Gilmore
Ronald Stanger
United States
Luis Jose Monge
Colorado
Texas
Robert Excell White
White
Portillo vows austerity and reform in inauguration
Mexico's new president Joe Lopez Portillo begins a six year term by urging hard work and reduced spending. He calls for austerity to combat inflation, recession, unemployment, and peso devaluation while seeking business support and banking reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jose Lopez Portillo
Mexico
Luis Echeverria
Mexico City
Portillo
Associated Press
Joe Lopez Portillo
Lopez Portillo
Missing USDA DC-3 wreck found in northern Mexico
Mexican peasants discover the wreckage of a USDA screw worm program DC-3 and the five crew members after a two day search. The flight from Mission Texas to Tampico disappeared Tuesday, part of a joint U.S. Mexico effort to control screwworm infestations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mission
Tex
U.S. Agriculture Department
Mexico
M.R. Meadows Dts
Rio Grande
Meadows
Tampico
Lee F. Raybourn
Edinburg
James F. Hoyler
Paul Faris
Lupe Puente
Urbano Garcia
U.S
Self-dealing blamed for Citizens State Bank collapse
Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez said self-dealing and misconduct by bank owners helped collapse Citizens State Bank of Carrizo Springs last June 28, with lax regulation worsening the crisis. Testimony linked Enrique Salinas of Eagle Pass to over $1 million in loans to himself and associates, as hearings examined Texas banking practices and possible reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilmore
Nicole Barett
Bullock
Calvin Rampton
State Pardons Board
Tom Jones
San Antonio, Tex
Citizens State Bank of
Carrizo Springs
Henry B. Gonzalez
Gonzalez
U.S. House
Mony
Citizens State Bank
State Banking Department
Texas
Enrique Salinas
Eagle Pass
Fernando St. Germain
D-R.1
Congressional
Ben Barnes
Richmond C. Harper Sr
Also Mentioned on This Page
U.N
Austin
State Commission On Jail Standards
Railroad Commission
Panhandle
South Texas
San Antonio
West Texas
North Texas
Refugio
Christie
Senate
Longview
Tex.s
State Insurance Board
Joe Christie
John Tower
R-Tex
Insurance Board
Tower
Sheffield
Mass
Jimmy Carter
Plains
David Smith
Lillian Carter
David
Rabin
Paris
Yitzhak Rabin
Israel
France Soir
Rumor
Rome
Christian Democrats
Mariano Rumor
Air Force
Navy
Adm
James L. Holloway II
Naval Operations
John Sodolski
Electronics Industries Association
Black Panthers
Black Panther Party
FBI
CIA
IRS
Postal Service
Treasury
Justice Departments
Santa Fe
N.M
Pennsylvania Avenue
Seidman
Wage and Price Council
William Lilley NT
Lilley
Ron Nessen
Nessen
Council
National Weather Service
Jose Represas
Nestle
Echeverria
Agrarian Reform Secretariat
Secretariat
Lopez — Portillo
Institutional Revolutionary Party
PRI
USDA
Don Neilson
Ciudad Victoria
Neilson
Subcommittee
Barnes
Harper
Economic Development Administration
EDA
Surety Savings Association
Houston
Averick
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!