CIA Knew ITT Man Lied About Chile Testimony
The CIA acknowledged it knew ex ITT executive Harold Hendrix would give false testimony before a Senate subcommittee on Chile. Hendrix cooperates with a federal grand jury probing CIA ITT actions and potential fraud linked to Hendrix withholding CIA relations in 1972. Former CIA Director Richard Helms and ITT chairman Harold Geneen named as targets. Houston says agency knew in advance of Hendrix’s intent to testify falsely.
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Coast Guard faces criticism over Argo Merchant spill
Boston AP report notes Coast Guard criticism amid the breakup of the Liberian tanker Argo Merchant spilling millions of gallons of oil into Georges Bank fishing grounds. Lt Gov O Neill blasted lack of trained personnel. Magnuson will open hearings on tanker safety once Congress reconvenes. Oil slick extends over 100 miles as divers plan to inspect remaining tanks.
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Andrus Defends Alaska Fishing Trip Tied to Pipeline Backer
Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus acknowledged a 1975 Alaska salmon fishing trip funded in part by Morrison-Knudsen, a major contractor on the trans Alaska pipeline. He said the trip caused no difficulty for his Senate confirmation and noted his friendship with the Morrison-Knudsen president. He left Alaska after one day when his daughter was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease.
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Botswana seeks UN peacekeeping to ease border tensions
Botswana said it will appeal to the United Nations for a peacekeeping force to end border tensions with Rhodesia and rejected a Rhodesian proposal for talks. The landlocked desert nation with no army faces spillover from Rhodesian civil conflict and claims security forces cross its 440 mile border during hot pursuit.
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United Nations
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Grenade Kills Syrian Outside Beirut Newspaper
A grenade exploded outside Beirut's largest newspaper offices killing a Syrian soldier from the Arab League peacekeeping force and wounding another. It marks the first violence against the largely Syrian force occupying Lebanon, as Premier Salim el-Hoss seeks a parliamentary vote of confidence and emergency decree powers for six months to address security and economic crises.
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Today
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Fukuda Named President of Liberal Democratic Party
Fukuda age 71, wealthy leader of a major LDP faction, was chosen by acclamation today as president of the ruling party, wiring him as likely next prime minister at Friday’s Diet session. Prime Minister Takeo Miki, 69, resigns after the party’s Dec 5 election setback.
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U N General Assembly Recesses Until Spring
The United Nations General Assembly recessed Wednesday night at the request of 116 developing nations. They aim to reconvene in spring to reassess progress in the North South Paris talks between developing countries and Industrialized nations. A Dec. 15 meeting was postponed beyond the U S presidential transition.
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Freed Chilean Arrives in Moscow After Release
Chilean Communist party leader Luis Corvalan and his wife arrived in Moscow welcomed by more than 500 Soviet and Latin American students at the airport. Corvalan, 60, looked healthy and cheerful as he stepped from a Soviet TU134 airliner after being released on Friday and flown to the Soviet Union Saturday from Switzerland.
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Oil Spill Scale: Pool, Cars, Homes, and World Trips
Spilled 3.7 million gallons from the Liberian tanker Argo Merchant described in figures: confined on a half acre would form a 46 foot deep pool, enough to fuel Boston Edison’s output for four days and power 22,000 homes for a year, or run 128,867 cars for a year at 20 mpg. If home heating oil, it would heat 9,459 winters and spread one inch thick over 20 football fields.
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Boston Edison Co
Carter aides to resign from clubs with no black members
President-elect Carter’s top aides Bell and Lance announce resignations from private clubs lacking black members. Griffin Bell says he will leave Piedmont Driving Club Capital City Club and Oglethorpe Club in Savannah. Bert Lance plans to quit Piedmont Driving Club Capital City Club and Atlanta Athletic Club.
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Carter advisers to meet Friday on economy stimulus
Jimmy Carter and his top economic advisers plan a Friday meeting to discuss ways to stimulate the economy. The group, including Bert Jence, W. Michael Blumenthal, and Charles Schultze, met with Carter’s transition staff in a discussion session to pursue tax cuts and government job programs as the 1977 economy is seen as weaker than goals.
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the Treasury
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Council of Economic Advisers
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