Carter to decide Friday on cabinet and staff resignations
President Carter faces mass resignation offers from 34 top officials and aides including James R. Schlesinger Patricia Harris and Andrew Young. White House aides say decisions may come by Friday amid calls for renewed lineup to aid re election. Powell confirms resignations were solicited as Carter weighs replacing key figures and reshaping his administration.
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Associated Press
Washington
Carter
White House
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Jody Powell
Pecos
Texas
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Jordan
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James R. Schlesinger
Treasury
W. Michael Blumenthal
Joseph A. Califano Jr
Health, Education and Welfare
Warren Dunn
Housing and Urban Development
Patricia Roberts Harris
U.N
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James McIntyre
Middle East
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Mary Hoyt
Alfred Kahn
Council On Wage and Price Stability
Cyrus R. Vance
Defense
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National Security
Zbigniew Brzezinski
New York
Capitol Hill
Lowell Welker
R-Conn
Weicker
Morris K. Udall
D-Ariz
Fed chief warns of a deeper recession and higher unemployment
Federal Reserve Board Chairman G William Miller told the Senate Banking Committee that unemployment could reach 7 percent this year and 8.25 percent in 1980, far above administration forecasts. The forecast also projects a 0.5 percent decline to 2 percent growth in 1980, with inflation worsening. Miller urged possible tax cuts and Social Security tax relief, while noting uncertainties and a consensus among Fed members. In Houston, the first Chinese merchant ship to visit Port Houston, the Liu Lin Hai, awaits loading 37,000 tons of grain amid improving trade talks with China.
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Associated Press
Washington
Carter
G. William Miller
Federal Reserve Board
Miller
Senate Banking Committee
Sion
Congress
China
Chairman sues for prosecutions of Kennedy and King conspiracies
Washington AP reports the defunct House assassinations committee urged the Justice Department to establish and prosecute possible suspects in conspiracies behind the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. The panel said Kennedy's killing likely involved a conspiracy, possibly by gangsters, and King's murder may have been. Committee chair Louis Stokes plans to meet with Attorney General Bell as dissenting members challenge conclusions. The two-year, $6 million probe found Oswald and Ray responsible, with substantial evidence of a King hit linked to a $50,000 offer from a St. Louis group, though no direct link proved.
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Justice Department
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Martin Luther King Jr
Kennedy
Dallas
King
Memphis
Louis Stokes
Congress
Harold Sawyer
Sawyer
Stokes
Griffin Bell
Lee Harvey Oswald
James Earl Ray
St. Louis
Insurance board study suggests 8.9% auto premium rise
Texas state regulators foresee an average 8.9 percent rate increase for auto insurance this year with county variation. The board staff backed by a July hearing framework projects $98.6 million more in premiums, while industry estimates reach $239.9 million. The proposal factors in higher repair costs from collisions, hail, fires, and vandalism, and notes potential formula changes could temper increases.
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LEE Jones Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Gasoline supplies improve in Texas despite rising prices
A AAA weekly survey of 418 stations shows gasoline supplies much improved in Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth as statewide prices rise from 0.9 to 1.5 cents per gallon. Diesel holds at 89.7 cents. Sunday pumping rises to 17 percent of stations in Houston and DFW, up from 7 percent, aided by a governor program allowing odd-even counties to stay open weekends.
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Houston
Texas
American Automobile Association
AAA
Dallas-Fort
Resignations called media event by Clements
AUSTIN Texas AP Gov Bill Clements said the Carter cabinet resignations were a planned media event. He asserted the president can terminate or recruit any official at will and criticized the move as evidence of poor management skills in running complex operations.
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Austin
Texas
Bill Clements
Carter
Weather outlook cools into Thursday with storms forecast
Pecos and vicinity see slightly cooler afternoons through Thursday with scattered showers in the afternoons and evenings. Tuesday high reached 99 degrees and morning low was 69. Pecos logged 17 inches of rain overnight. West Texas forecast notes mainly afternoon and nighttime thunderstorms through Thursday with cooler air in the north. Highs in the 70s to near 100 from the Panhandle to Big Bend. Lows in the 60s to mid 70s.
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West Texas
Northern Panhandle
Big Bend
Northern
Panhandle
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