Governors urge Ford aid to save rail lines and fund upgrades
Eleven governors urged President Ford to delay abandoning up to 6000 miles of eastern rail track and to back a 12 billion dollar plan for major rail system improvements. Ford listened but did not commit. Transportation Secretary Coleman signaled limited appetite for new subsidies as the USRA plans move toward Congress.
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Washington
UPI
Ernors
Fordaturday
Ford
Transportation
William Coleman
Coleman
U.S. Railway Association
Congress
White House
USRA
Michigan
William Milliken
New Orleans
North Carolina town declares emergency after racially charged riot
Emergency situation declared in Hamlet as a night of violence ends with fires, a fireman shot by a sniper, and several injuries. About 300 youths roamed the streets after a black woman alleges police brutality during arrest for drunk and disorderly conduct. Five buildings damaged, fires caused about $24,000 in damage, one woods burned, no arrests.
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Hamlet
N.C
UPS
North Carolina
Ernest King
Eas
Gene Ross
C.B. Utter
Strip measure rumors blast Ford veto battle
Sen. Lee Metcalf accuses utilities of spreading misleading information about a strip mining bill in the wake of President Ford’s veto. Rep. Morris Udall says the administration circulated a complicated misinformation web as House members prepare to vote on an override. The bill would require land restoration after surface mining and faces charges about job losses and consumer costs spread over time.
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Washington
UPI
Lee Metcalf
D-Mont
Ford
Morris K. Udall
D-Ariz
Etculf
Southwestern Electric Power Co
Shreveport
Belgium picks F 16 over Mirage in arms deal
Belgium chose the General Dynamics F 16 fighter over the Mirage in a decision valued at about 2 billion dollars. The move clears the way for the Netherlands Denmark Norway and Belgium to buy 334 F 16s from Fort Worth Texas, replacing obsolete F 104 Starfighters. Prime Minister Leo Tindemans said the government would fund an R D program to aid a unified European aeronautics industry.
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Brussels
UPI
United States
Belgium
General Dynamics
Netherlands
Denmark
Norway
Fort Worth
Europe
Leo Tindemans
Tindemans
Eun Aeronautic
Dassault Company
Paris
Jacques Chirac
Ford to release CIA report while withholding assassination plots findings
President Ford will release the Rockefeller Commission report on the CIA but withhold its findings on alleged assassination plots. White House sources say Ford plans a formal announcement Monday night, after objections to a weekend release promise. The decision delays a separate 70 to 80 page summary on plots to kill leaders like Castro, sending that to a Senate panel.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Rockefeller Commission
CIA
White House
Ron Nelsen
United States
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Presidential Commission
Ondia
Cuba
F Castro
Senate
Unsafe bridges plague Mountain State and nation
A UPI report cites TRIP findings that one in seven U S bridges is unsafe and 80,000 cannot safely handle current traffic. Deficient bridges are concentrated in New Mexico Nevada Louisiana Vermont West Virginia with 35 percent in those states. Officials cite aging structures and funding gaps as barriers to repair and replacement.
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New Mexico
Nevada
Louisiana
Vermont
West Virginia
Trip
Donald B. Stabler
Stabler
Barry Polski
Carl Bycir and Associates
One Killed Five Hurt In Penn Central Train Collision
A fireman identified as Richard Radzevich aged 29 from Braddock Pennsylvania died and five others were injured in a collision involving three Penn Central freight trains near Salem Ohio. Forty one cars and seven locomotives derailed with damages estimated up to one million dollars.
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Salem, Ohio
UPI
Penn Central
Richard Radzevich
Braddock
William Murphy
Pittsburgh
Ohio
Murphy
Viet regime prioritizes tracking down remnants of Saigon army
South Vietnam's Provisional Revolutionary Government says the main task is pursuing old Saigon army remnants to maintain security. President Huynh Tan Phat adds rebuilding the economy and rural development as other chief goals.
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Saigon
UPI
South Vietnam
Huynh Tan Phat
Saigon Liberation Radio
Phat
Butterfly McQueen Finally Earns College Degree at CCNY
Butterfly McQueen known for Prissy in Gone With the Wind earned a Bachelor of Arts from City College of New York after attending five colleges over nearly 30 years. The Harlem resident says the degree honors her late mother and marks a life of study in liberal arts and various fields.
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Karen F. Oliver
New York
UPI
Butterfly McQueen
Scarlett O'Hara
Harlem
Vivien Leigh
Scarlett
City College of New York
Miss McQueen
Mount Morris Park
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