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Fridav. November 22.1974
University Daily Kasan
Auto workers laid off
From the Associated Press
DETROIT—General Motors said Thursday that it would suspend production at nine of its 22 U.S. auto assembly plants from one to two weeks in December, laying off about 30,000 workers. Ford Motor Co. said about 3,000 of its white-collar workers in the United States would be laid off by December, while 15,000 Chrysler Corp. said 15,000 white-collar workers at Chrysler would be laid off for six weeks beginning next Wednesday, when five of the company's six car assembly plants will shut down. Nearly 150,000 blue-collar workers have been laid off or face layoffs in the auto industry in two months. Industry auto sales in October were the lowest in a decade, and new model deliveries are down nearly 30 per cent from a year ago.
House passes tax bill
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—The House Ways and Means Committee approved a multibillion-dollar tax bill yesterday that would end the controversial oil depletion allowance. Along with increasing petroleum industry taxes, the legislation would cut taxes for millions of average Americans, boost the investment tax credit for utilities and increase taxes on foreign-source income of the U.S. workforce. The legislation would drop from the present 22 per cent to 15 per cent starting Jan. 1, 1974 and would be generally eliminated in 1975.
U.S. backs Israel in U.N.
From the Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS- The United States yesterday declared its support of Israel's right to exist and lashed out at the Arab guerrilla's "deliberate policy of terror" and their attempt to compare it with the American Revolution. A resolution prepared by Third World countries, expected for approval today, says nothing about the continued existence of Israel. Yasir Afatfat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said on Tuesday that the American Revolution at the opening of the Palestinian debate in the General Assembly last week. U.S. ambassador John A. Scalift hinted that the United States would vote against the resolution. He said it was one-sided and "could destroy prospects for peace in the foreseeable future."
Consumer prices up.9%
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—The Labor Department's latest figures indicate that consumer prices rose nineteenth of one per cent in October, while workers' spendable earnings fell three-tenths of one per cent. The October rise means that prices of things most Americans buy were 10.6 percent higher, compared with a year earlier.
The increase in consumer prices indicated that inflation, especially in food prices, still run unchecked in the economy.
WASHINGTON—A deeply worried Richard M. Nixon was told in April 1973 that John W. Dean's disclosures might lead to accusations about the ground that you committed a crime."
Dean worried Nixon, tape shows
Nixon reacted by working out a story to protect himself.
From the Associated Press
"I have got to put the wagons up around the President," Nixon was heard talking to top H. R. Hilderman on a tape recording of him saying that he was there today for the Waterate cover trial warrior.
Ironically, what seemed to concern Nixon.
most was that Dean might have tapped a conversation a month earlier, on March 21, when they discussed the blackmail money demands being made on the White House by convicted Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt Jr.
Haldeman told Nixon he didn't think Dean had recorded the conversation.
"I just wander if the son-of-a-bitch had a bad day. I couldn't believe it. I didn't notice any, but I wouldn't look."
Nixon replies, "On that we'll destroy him.
It's his word against the President."
made public previously, ended the government's use of tapes as its chief witness against Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, John N. Mitchell, Robert C. Mardan and Joseph S. Koch, covered with conspiring to cover up White House involvement in the Watergate affair.
The playing of four recordings, none
Nixon is an unindicted co-conspirator in the case, but President Gerald R. Ford's pardon makes him immune from criminal penalty.
Dean, who had been the President's counsel throughout the Watergate turmoil, had gone to prosecutors early in April to spill the whole story.
In the first of three April 25 conversations played for the jury, Ehrichman told Nixon, "I think it's entirely conceivable that Dean is totally out of control and if matters are not handled adroitly that you could get a resolution of impeachment in the Senate."
Part of that story was that Nixon had said in the March 21 conversation that there would be no problem in raising a million dollars to keep the Watergate defendants quiet.
But he said, "Who the hell is going to believe what he's going to say now and he's saying it now for what purpose? He's going to be of course saying, 'well, they're making me the scapegoat and all the rest and therefore I'm going to tell all.'"
Nixon said, "If he's going to have this passing contest. . . all right, bring it out and fight it out, and it'll be a bloody Goddamned you'll even find (until they die) in Mississippi you'll find a half dozen people that will be for the President."
Congress overrides presidential vetoes
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Senate joined the House yesterday in overriding President Gerald R. Ford's vetoes of the Freedom of Information bill and the vocational rehabilitation bill. The Senate votes enacted both measures into law.
The Freedom of Information bill vote was 65 to 27, or three more than the two-thirds required. The bill provides greater public access to government documents under the Freedom of Information Act. The bill had found many loopholes in the 1966 Freedom of Information Act.
The bill sets a 10-day limit for agency decisions on whether to supply information, a 30-day limit on derecruiting administrative appeals, and a 60-day limit on directing administrative appeals.
It authorizes federal judges to examine documents to decide whether they should be made public, narrows the power of agencies to withhold law enforcement investigatory files, and requires the keeping of an index of documents available to the public.
The vote overriding Ford on the $811-million, three-year vocational rehabilitation bill was 90 to 10. Sen. William Scott, R-VA., cast the lone
There is some doubt about the status of this bill, however, because the President contended it was pocket vetoed during the recent congressional recess. Democrats said they would take the administration to court if it didn't carry out this measure.
The dispute over the vocational rehabilitation bill involved a congressional mandate to change the organization setup for the 84-staffed agency.
The bill would take the program out of the Social and Rehabilitation Service in the Health, Education and Welfare Department (HEW), and move it to a different department.
Sponsors of the bill said the Social Rehabilitation Service was too welfare-oriented to run the vocational rehabilitation program.
The bill also would extend the program another year with an $851 million authorization.
Schoonover plans appeal on decision
Schoolover was convicted in the October 1973 shooting of J. W. Schoolover, her brother, and her cousin, Daniel H. Schoolover.
From the Associated Press
Schbovenor, 49, contended in the motion that her court-appointed lawyer at the trial, which ended in a first-degree murder charge on March 25, provided inadequate counsel.
"We will not seek a consent decree," he
said, "and there are here." We're going to fight it to fight it.
The notice said that she would appeal a court decision in December against her judge. Monday demanded he apologize.
From the Associated Press
OTTAWA-Nellie Schoonover, serving a life prison term in the slaying of her elderly husband, has filed a notice that she intends to present decision to the Kansas Supreme Court.
Under a consent decree, a company neither admits to nor denies charges made, but agrees not to do specified things in the future.
HUNGRY?
New from the Associated Press
NEW YORK-John D. deBuits, chairman of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. said that The Times reported that can be made at this time "with the Justice Department over an antitrust action filed Wednesday.
AT&T to challenge antitrust action
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