Editorial: Good buddy is cagey by Don Graft
The CB radio craze remains, with over 12 million licensees growing by 250000 monthly. Overproduction and a flawed marketing shift to 40 channels hurt manufacturers, who now face a grim outlook with many likely exiting by 1978. CB buyers stick to 23-channel sets, proving the market self-corrects as it matures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Graft
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Cbers
Wall Stree Journal
Consumer group urges rejection of meat inspection study
A consumer group, the Community Nutrition Institute, asked by the Department of Agriculture to assess a Booz, Allen and Hamilton study on meat and poultry inspection, recommends rejecting the study and pursuing broader reforms to reduce contamination. The group condemns the study as based on invalid assumptions and urges new staffing, citizen participation, and a tougher focus on health hazards in inspection. The report notes export sales data for cotton, corn, and soy products, plus dairy and livestock developments, with special attention to import rules for Irish Simmental cattle.
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W. Dale Nelson
Associated Press
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Community Nutrition Institute
Carol Tucker Foreman
Secretary of Agriculture For Food and Consumer Services
Booz, Allen and Hamilton
Department
Japan
Ireland
Today in History January 4 1978 highlights and birthdays
On January 4 1790 George Washington delivered the first annual presidential message. Isaac Newton born 1642 in Lincolnshire. Utah admitted 1896. 1936 Nazis ordered military training for German children. 1948 Burma independence. 1951 Seoul fell in Korean War. 1975 Ford commissionsInquiry into CIA spying. flu epidemic 10 years prior. B-52 loss in Indochina five years ago. Byrd elected Senate majority leader a year ago. Grace Bumbry 41, Floyd Patterson 43. Thought for today from Goethe.
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Associated Press
George Washington
Isaac Newton
Lincolnshire
England
Utah
Germany
Britain
Burma
Seoul
Presiden Gerald Ford
Central Intelligence Agency
United States
District of Columbia
Indochina
Robert Byrd
West Virginia
Senate
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
Grace Bumbry
Floyd Patterson
Sonana Wolfgang von Goethe
Monotony on the Potomac and 1978 Headlines
A Washington column satirizes a slow news year, predicting repetitive political angles, election year surprises, and imagined headlines. It playfully mocks pundits, naming Strauss and O Neill among Washington power figures, and ends with a cheeky New Year wish.
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Washington
NEA
Potomac
Carter
Capitol Hill
South Africa
Robert Strauss
Russell Long
Tip O'Neill
Walter F Mondaie
Hubert H. Humphrey
Jerry Brown
Howard Baker
Jim
Thompson
Congress
GOP
Common Cause
CIA plotted murders with Mafia hit squad for $1 million each
Washington column recounts decades of investigative reporting on CIA ties to Mafia killers and a proposed covert unit to assassinate foreign leaders. It cites Robert Maheu and Charles Siragusa, describes a 1960s plan, a failed Havana rescue, a Greenwich Village safe house, and a Senate probe. It notes Carter’s diplomatic outreach and a Panama Canal treaty signature confusion.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Fidel Castro
Murder, Inc
Castro
Senate Intelligence Committee
Robert Maheu
Howard Hughes
Las Vegas
Nevada
Maheu
Mafia
Charles Siragusa
Federal Narcotics Bureau
Siragusa
United States
Underworld
Havana
Cuba
Chicago
Raul
Greenwich Village
Committee
Carter
Bob Dole
State Department
Dole
Demetrio Lakas
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Irish Simmental Cattle Society
Melvin H. Middents
National Grain and Feed Association
Middents
George M. Wood
F.P. Wood & Son, Inc
Wood
Martha Angle and
Robert Walters
Powers-That-Be
West Bank
Panama Canal
Bert Lance
Arthur Burns
Fed
Carter Peanut
Kojak
FBI
South Bronx
U.S
FDA
Jack Anderson
THE
Gertrude
North America
Great Lakes
Yoorg Noy
Joluacing
Aig
Ues
Uuoiny
Ken Dulaney
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