Ford weighs bid for Republican nomination
Gerald R. Ford considers entering the Republican presidential race with a team of top advisers including Douglas Bailey of Bailey Deardouroff & Associates who produced Ford’s 1976 commercials and Stuart Spencer, a California consultant known for Reagan’s early career.
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Gerald R. Ford
Douglas Bailey
Washington
Bailey, Deardouroff & Associates
Ford
Stuart Spencer
California
Ronald Reagan
Recession fears grow as analyst predicts deep downturn
AP report quotes Merrill Lynch economist Albert Cox Jr. predicting a deep, long recession by year end, with unemployment rising to 8.9 percent and retail sales falling. He cites weak employment gains, sluggish productivity, and inflation eroding incomes as the core drivers.
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John Cunniff
New York
Albert Cox Jr
Merrill Lynch Economics
White House
Cox
World Almanac questions on Monroe Doctrine and ranks
Trivia questions cover the Monroe Doctrine as U S foreign policy and military insignia by gold bar for second lieutenant. It also states Kentucky as first state to secede in 1861, with true false prompts and a final line of garbled text.
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U.S
U.S. State
Kentucky
Today in History highlights through the decades
On this date in 1911 Chinese revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Manchu Dynasty in China. The Naval Academy opened in Annapolis in 1845 and the Gamboa Dam was blown in 1913. Chiang Kai-shek was sworn in in 1943, a dam collapse near Belluno in 1963 killed about 1800, Agnew resigned in 1973, Nixon moved Hershey in 1973, Tel Aviv protests occurred in 1975, and Beirut evacuation rumors surfaced in 1979.
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Associated Press
Sun Yat-sen
China
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Atlantic
Pacific
Panama Canal
Gamboa
U.S
Generalissismo
Chiang Kai-shek
Republic
Belluno
Italy
Spiro Agnew
Justice Department
Richard Nixon
Lewis Hershey
Tel Aviv
Beirut
Lebanon
Tax inflation swells as taxes outpace price gains
Editorial argues tax burdens rose faster than consumer prices from 1968 to 1978. It cites Industry Week figures showing federal, state, and local taxes increasing 155.3 percent versus 87.5 percent price inflation, with social insurance taxes growing 249 percent and per capita tax payments totaling 857 dollars.
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Don Graff
Industry \eek magazine
Industry Week
Who's in charge here in U S foreign policy?
United States policy is scrutinized as Congress and various leaders clash over treaties and diplomacy. The piece argues the president and secretary of state should speak for the nation, with Congress limited to constitutional roles and fiscal duties. It calls for leaders like Fauntroy and Jackson to focus on domestic matters and for restraint in foreign meddling.
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Washington
NEA
U.S
Frank Church
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Idaho
Cuba
House of Representatives
Senate
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
London
Kibitz
Zimbabwe- Rhodesia
State Department
Walter Fauntroy
District of Columbia
House
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Yasir Arafat
Palestinian Liberation Organization
Middle East
Jesse Jackson
U.N
Andrew Young
PLO
Congress
Israel
Egypt
United States
Soviet Union
Fauntroy
Jackson
Corporate greed and crime draw harsh penalties urged
Washington column argues that white collar crime by Big Business leaders can kill and should be punished like violent crime. Rep Conyers and Rep Miller push for laws with heavy fines and jail terms for officials who hide unsafe products and dangerous conditions. Examples include Ford Pinto fires, Firestone tires, asbestos, kepone dumping, and oil lease abuses at Fort Chaffee. Ghost voting inquiry in House ethics probes electronic voting anomalies and possible tampering.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Congress
Richard Speck
Charles Manson
John Conyers
D-Mich
George Miller
Dcalif
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Firestone
Johns-Manville Co
Asbestos Textile Institute
Allied Chemicals
Virginia
James River
Allied
Bureau of Land Management
Fort Chaffee
Ark
Bureau
U.S. Geological Survey
Senate
Treasury
Cecil Andrus
House of Representatives
House Ethics Committee
House
Morgan Murphy
Ill
Chicago
General Accounting Office
James Anderson
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