Kennedy cites GAO report on Vietnamese refugees
Senator Edward M Kennedy released a GAO report criticizing Saigon and US refugee programs in Vietnam. The $162 million three year effort showed refugee counts inflated by misreporting and resettlement claims, with many refugees reportedly returning to Viet Cong areas.
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Washington
Edward M. Kennedy
South Vietnam
Saigon
Massachusetts Democrat
General Accounting Office
United States
Elmer Staats
Senate
Agency For International Development
GAO
Mansfield warns economy will be political unless White House cooperates
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield says inflation and unemployment must be tackled by both parties. He urges White House and Congress to work in tandem to prevent the economy from becoming a partisan issue and supports a wage and price freeze as a step toward halting inflation.
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Washington
Mansfield
Congress
House
Ford UAW talks relaxed pace toward three year deal
Ford Motor Co and United Auto Workers bargainers pressed toward a three year contract with observers sensing a completion before the midnight strike deadline. Wage and fringe benefits proposals include a 51 cent raise in year one and 3 percent boosts in years two and three, with retroactivity disputed.
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Detroit
UPI
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers
UAW
Leonard Woodcock
Malcolm Denise
Ford
General Motors
International
Dearborn
Woodcock
Ford Council
Chavez vows to stay in jail to pressure lettuce contract
Cesar Chavez, 43, president of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, said he is prepared to remain in jail indefinitely for civil disobedience after being sentenced for refusing to call off a lettuce strike and boycott against Bud Antle Farm Inc. Chávez expressed good spirits and asked followers to keep faith as they urge Antle to sign a contract with the UFWOC rather than the Teamsters.
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Salinas
Calif
UPI
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Helen. Chavez
Bud Antle Farm, Inc
Salinas Valley
Chavez
Antle
Teamsters Union
UFWOC
Cesar
Marshall Ganz
UFWCC
Dow Chemical Co
Superior Court
Gordon Campbell
Freedom Bird Returns GIs From Vietnam Two Week Leave
A charter DC-8 flight carried 200 soldiers from Indochina to the world on the first two week leave under a new policy to lift morale. Five more such flights are planned this month as troops cope with long separations and intense duty. Soldiers described relief, family reunions, and anxieties about returning to combat.
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Saigon
Indochina
Vietnam
Trans International Airways
Tansonnhut Airport
Elmira
San Francisco
San Antonio
Millionaire Inmate Learns He Inherited 1.3 Million
Lyle J. Fisher, 28, serving a three years to life sentence for rape and assault with a deadly weapon, received a 1.3 million mystery inheritance. An anonymous benefactor provided the funds while Fisher remains jailed and unnamed. he plans legal action toward innocence, parole eligibility next year, and aims to invest after release. He says he will write a book about his experiences.
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Vacaville
Calif
UPI
Lyle J. Fisher
Fisher
California
Yarborough Blames Hate Campaign for Farm Defeats
Sen Ralph Yarborough charges that prophets of hate and the Nixon administration harmed his bid and that of Sen Albert Gore Jr. The Texas Democrat told the Farmers Union Convention that the anti farmer Nixon policy coalition ruined farm interests and helped elect Lloyd Bentsen.
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Amarillo
Tex
UPI
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Albert Gore
Dtenn
Nixon
Texas Farmers Union
Yarborough
America
Senate
Lloyd “Entsen
Houston
Gore
William E. Brock III
R-Tenn
White House
Defense orders widening Minuteman silos protection upgrade
The Defense Department has ordered the Air Force to bolster protection for about 500 Minuteman silos as they convert from Minuteman 1 to Minuteman 3. Costs are pegged at 500 million to 1 billion dollars over five years with secrecy and congressional authorization still in question.
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Washington
Defense Department
Air Force
Congress
United States
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Reagan
Mark Christian
Albuquerque
N.M
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23Rd Infantry Division
David Clark
N.Y
Clark
1011St Airborne Division
Soviet Union
Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Minuteman
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