Ford Forders edge toward shorter week in tentative deal
Ford Motor Co and the United Auto Workers near a contract settlement after a long strike. The tentative terms would add four days off in year one, eight days year two, and 12 days year three, with a 3 percent wage rise plus ongoing cost of living adjustments.
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Supreme Court declines review of death penalty cases
The Supreme Court declines to rehear Georgia Texas and Florida death penalty rulings but agrees to decide if Georgia can apply death for rapists. Arkansas death penalty law is remanded for reconsideration. Nearly 200 inmates on death rows face potential execution. Georgia rape case Ehrlich Coker granted review.
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Clocks Stop Flare As 94th Congress Adjourns
The 94th Congress adjourned after an all-night session with 125 bills processed. The Senate cleared 64 measures in 63 minutes after ending a filibuster on the Clean Air Act while major legislation moved, including unemployment, immigration, GI education benefits, veterans programs, and a $1 billion rivers and harbors package, though the Clean Air Act and other key bills were killed or postponed.
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Officials arrive for Rhodesian peace talks in Salisbury
American deputy secretary of state William Schauffle and British minister Ted Rowlands arrived in Salisbury to meet Prime Minister Ian Smith on plans for an interim government leading toward black majority rule in Rhodesia. The conference aims to implement Kissinger’s framework within two years amid white opposition.
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Rhodesia
UPI
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South Africa
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African National Council
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Black Africa
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Ford Plans California Trip Amid Butz Controversy
President Ford prepares a six day West Coast campaign swing through San Francisco and Los Angeles with stops in Oklahoma and Texas. He aims to debate Carter midweek and will visit the North American Rockwell plant. Secretary Butz faces resignation pressure over an offensive joke about blacks.
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Kohl Claims Chancellor Post After Close German Vote
In Bonn Helmut Kohl of the Christian Democrats claimed the chancellorship despite losing the largest party status to Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats and Free Democrats. Kohl sought to form a coalition with the Free Democrats while Schmidt and Genscher vowed to remain in the existing coalition. President Scheel was to decide who to invite to form a government before December 15.
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