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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1975
Page
4
A Phnom Penh supply convoy 44 miles southeast of the capital was stalled by a tug's propeller fault while towing about 4,000 tons of ammunition upriver from South Vietnam. Tugs and naval protection fought to keep the movement moving as repairs were made near Neak Luong.
Cuba would release Lawrence K. Lunt a Massachusetts native jailed in 1965 on espionage charges in exchange for Lolita Lebron one of four Puerto Rican nationalists who fired on the House in 1954 wounding five members. The report links to other Ford administration policy notes on Vietnam energy and taxes.
Former White House aide Charles W. Colson claims E. Howard Hunt sent sealed envelopes to CIA counterintelligence chief Richard Ober for nine months after the agency says it ended ties. Betty Ford says doctors see strong recovery from breast cancer and Ford supports Nixon re election timing.
President Ford seeks higher import fees on oil starting Feb 1 to curb energy use while offering tax cuts he says will offset costs for families earning $15 000 or less. Officials estimate a $250 yearly energy bill rise for a four person household, with greater relief for the lowest incomes and less for higher earners.
Four area men join the Navy including Antonio Rodriguez and Robert Perez from Seadrift and Port Lavaca natives Frank Saldivar and William Sanchez. Rodriguez and Perez enter Cache Program delaying active duty up to nine months with Oct or Jan 75 start dates, while Saldivar enrolls in Nuclear Field Training with 270 day delay and two years of prep in physics electronics and nuclear engineering. Sanchez schedules Aug 1975 active duty with electronics warfare training. Navy recruiters office is at Town Plaza Shopping Mall Victoria Texas.
As House committee chairmanship races intensify, candidates wage friction. Frank Thompson Jr of New Jersey challenges incumbent Wayne L. Hays of Ohio amid threats and accusations. Banking chair race pits Wright Patman, Henry Reuss, and Robert Stephens Jr. against each other as more subcommittee posts face instability.
Senator John Tower and Senator Paul Fannin introduced bills to expand social security benefits and cut federal construction costs. The measures would remove widow dependency rules, allow jointly earned benefits for working wives, guarantee full old age benefits at 60, and grant 10 years of coverage for disability. The Davis Bacon Act repeal would cut federal project wages, reducing costs by up to 15 percent, Tower said.
TI vice president says the airline seeks a rapid settlement to reduce post strike losses from customer shifts to rivals. AP notes strike insurance payments are denied by TI officials who blame the timing of settlements on seasonal slack and focus on Mutual Aid Pact subsidies.
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