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UAW settlement approved
DETROIT—United Auto Workers, including sometimes disident skilled tradesmen, have approved a proposed settlement in the four-week-four Ford Motor Corp. strike.
The strike by 170,000 hourly workers in 22 states will continue because of the continued threat to the health and safety of its workers. **11A President Leonard Woodock announced ratification nearly one week to**
Law President Leonard woodcock announced ratification nearly one week to the hour after the agreement was reached with company bargainers.
He said that the vote among production workers was 35,192 to 22,026, and that tradesmen voted 8,957 to 8,468.
Cover-up convictions upheld
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Court of Appeals yesterday uphold the Watergate cover-up convictions of three of former President Richard Nixon, Robert Koehler and Robert Mapplethorpe.
In a 300-page opinion, the six judges said defendants in the four-month-long conspiracy trial had been properly tried and found guilty of "wide-ranging conspiracy."
A fifth defendant, lawyer Kenneth W. Parkinson, was acquitted when the jury returned its verdict on New Year's Day 1975.
A separate opinion said Mardian, a former assistant attorney general, should have been tried separately from the three other co-defendants, John Mitchell, H. R. Jones and J. E. Hood.
Coffee prices rise again
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-General Foods Corp., the nation's largest coffee producer, said it had raised wholesale prices for the second time in more than five of its five locations.
The 5.5 to 6.4 per cent increase follows a move by Nestle Co., which earlier this month boosted wholesale prices on instant coffee by 7 to 14 per cent. In both cases, company spokesmen said the increases were caused by sharply rising green coffee prices.
General Foods last raised prices June 17, and a spokesman said the latest increase may be felt by consumers in about a month.
But a New York supermarket executive said many stores, fearful of losing customers, were selling coffee at little profit or at a loss.
"Some stores haven't passed on a March increase, others are absorbing the July increase," he said.
Ford retracts statement about USSR domination
By The Associated Press
Jimmy Carter rested and studied yesterday while President Gerald Ford tried to mollify ethnic groups and took off on his fourth trip of the presidential campaign.
for the sixth time since he asserted during last Wednesday's debate that there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, Ford explained his position. He told 18 ethnic leaders in the White House Cabinet form that he had made a mistake in saying that
The President then flew to New York City and told a largely Jewish audience that if elected he would visit Israel and the Middle East to contribute to a permanent peace settlement.
Ford also said he was "pressing for a new movement" to relieve what he called 'the plight of Soviet Jewry,' promising to continually raise the subject of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union with Soviet leader Leenid Brezhnev.
Carter's staff issued criticisms in his
name of the Ford administration's farm and health care policies. But the Democratic presidential candidate himself, back in Plains, Ga., after eight days on the road, said he was devoting two days to his family, not his campaign strategy.
Little new ground was broken on campaign issues.
In his morning meeting with leaders of groups that represent Americans of Eastern European descent, Ford said, "The president didn't express myself clearly. I admit it."
He went on to say that countries of Eastern Europe "are, of course, dominated by the Soviet Union." If it weren't for the presence of more than 30 nations there, these nations would have lioned since achieved their freedom," Ford said.
But, he said, "the United States never has, does not now, and never will recognize, accept or acquire in this Soviet domination of Eastern Europe."
Less than two weeks after it began, the nationwide swine flu vaccination program was suspended in eight states yesterday after three elderly persons died within hours of taking the flu shots in Pennsylvania.
Inoculations were mated in Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Missouri, Germany, Austria and Alaska.
By The Associated Press
Florida officials also reported that a 63-year-old man suffered a fatal heart attack after 91 minutes after receiving a swine flu inoculation. However, state health officials said they doubted the attack was caused by the vaccine.
Florida health officials said the vaccine injected into Saufel Gelman came from the same batch used in Pittsburgh, where three nurses died after getting swine flu inoculations.
Swine flu shots suspended after three deaths
Robert Bowers, director of the Oklahoma City-County Health department, said he had received two reports of elderly persons in Oklahoma dying about one hour after receiving swine flu shots. He said that physicians handling the cases also died of chronic pulmonary disease and not from the inoculations.
Paul Hughes, director of the Broward County Health Department, said he doubted there was any connection between Gelman's death and the inoculation.
Officials in New York, Michigan and Utah ordered the with-holding of more than 200,000 doses of vaccine that came from the same lot of vaccine used in Pennsylvania. The vaccines they would withhold another 40,000 doses, it wouldn't stop the program in that state.
The swine flu shots continued in at least 15 other states, Officials in Massachusetts, Florida, California and elsewhere said they have no intention of停顿 their program
Officials of the federal Center for Disease Control said there were no plans for a nationwide halt in the swine flu program because of the Pennsylvania deaths.
"We have no evidence to suggest that these deaths were caused by vaccine or the vaccination programs," David Sencer, director of the center, said. "Nevertheless, this is a highly unusual cluster of deaths and requires a full investigation."
In New York City, the largest municipal swine flu program in the nation began on
All three of the Pennsylvania deaths were attributed to heart attacks, which occurred Monday within hours of the time the people were being evacuated by Alhenghey County Coroner Cyril Welch. said.
The cause of the heart attacks wasn't known, however, and that was the concern of state, federal and local health investigators.
Supreme Court won't test 'equal time'ruling
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court yesterday declined to consider an equal time challenge to this year’s test against the federal and to news conference held by candidates.
An FCC attorney, Stephen Sharp, said the only remaining suit over the presidential debates was filed by Eugene McCarthy last week.
"Although the court's action today is not hearing on that case, for all intents and purposes," Mr. Sanders said.
The court refused to review a Federal Communications Commission ruling that political debates and news conferences by the committee are exempt from the equal time principle.
The television networks, the FCC and the League of Women Voters, sponsor of the debates between the presidential and vice-president, voted to reject the court to let the FCC ruin stand.
The equal time doctrine, shaped by Congress in 1934, says that if one candidate is given use of broadcast facilities, other candidates must be given the same opportunity; office must be given the same opportunity.
The court, with only Justice Byron White recording his disagreement with the decision, said it would not consider an appeal that could have been filed by Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., the National Organization of Women and the Office of Communication of the United States.
chances for success more difficult," Sharp said.
McCarthy, a former Democratic senator from Minnesota and now an independent candidate for president seeking to be included in the debates between President Gerald Ford and Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, filed his challenge in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals here last Tuesday.
That court, which has already upheld the FCC ruling, hasn’t reached a decision on the MMI.
The Democratic National Committee argued that presidential news conferences gave unfair advantage to the incumbent, Chisholm and the National Organization for Women called the FCC decision 'a setback for minority and female candidates who traditionally have had the most difficult time obtaining media exposure.'
In other actions Tuesday, the high court refused to reconsider its decision striking the school board's license.
The court ruled on July 2 that although executions in general are constitutional, laws like those in Louisiana making capital punishment mandatory for certain crimes are not.
In seeking a rehearing, Louisiana officials said that a two-year-old state constitution empowered the Louisiana Supreme Court to guard against unconstitutional application of the death penalty.
TOKYO (AP)—Mao Tse-tung's widow and about 30 other top radicals in the Chinese leadership have been arrested or detained in a purge of those who opposed Mr. Huang Zhenqing's elevation to Communist party chairmen, news reports from Peking said yesterday.
The newspaper Ashi said the radicals had been plotting to name 62-year-old Chung Ching, Mao's widow, to the party and would be by her husband until on September 7.
Mao's widow arrested for opposing premier
Kyoto news service, in a Peking dispatch, said a government spokesman announced last night that Hua had been named party leader. Wall posters had appeared in Peking last week indicating his succession, and Mr. Hua, an official announcement, apparently used the unresolved power struggle between radicals and moderates.
The reported arrest of Mao's widow and other radical leaders meant, if true, a victory for the moderates and a reaffirmation of Mao's commitment with the United States and the West.
It also could mean tentative moves in Peking to improve relations with the Soviet Union, which have been seriously strained because of ideological differences.
China's official Hishina news agency continued to refer to Hua only as premier.
The immediate impression was that Hua has joined those who stress economic development with outside help, and effective results, rather than endless revolution.
Experts in Washington said the ascendancy of moderates could bring increased economic ties with the United States and, in turn, a pressure against U.S. support of Taiwan.
Ahsai quoted a reliable source in Peking at saying the radical group was accused of being a terrorists'帮派.
Chiang Ching, Mao's fourth wife, rose to prominence as a leader of the 1960-69 cultural revolution and was a key influence on her husband during the past decade.
his name during the six months of his life. They tried to use the forged will to get Chiang Chied elected party chairman, the source was quoted as saying.
Besides Chiang Ching, those arrested included party Vice Chairman Wang Hweng; Vice Premier Chun chiao-chao, who was frequently mentioned as a possible premier; Politburo member Yao Wenyu; Cultural Minister Yu Hui-hung; Mao Yuan-hsin, nephew of the late chairman and secretary-general of the People's Daily and executives of the official press.
The Asahi report quoted the source as saying that Chiang Ching and the three top radicals-Wang, Chang and Yao—were arrested when they attended a meeting of
Ahali saiited its source as saying Chiang Ching and her supporters were able to issue directives in Mao's name during his last years, but the leaders weren't allowed access to him.
the party's Central Committee last Thursday. The others were arrested or detained
Kyoto news service said Chinese officials commended it, to all inquiries about the report.
Foreign residents of Peking, reached by telephone from Hong Kong, said reports of the arrests at the party meeting were circulating freely in the city.
The arrests, if true, were underscored by the fact that Chiang Ching, Wang, Chang and Yao were among the first six officials listed as attending a forum in Peking last Thursday, the eve of the 27th anniversary of the People's Republic. Such lists are an indication of rank in China. Chiang Ching lost her invulnerability after Mao's death,史
Health officials in Allegheny County said the vaccine in question was produced by Parke Davis & Co. of Detroit and was part of Parke Davis vaccine lot A19333A.
The dead, two women and a man, were all in their 70s and had histories of heart or lung problems. Wecht said. Their deaths could be caused by the stress of getting the inoculations, he said.
Vaccine from the lot was distributed around the country and caused some states to suspend inoculations. At the same time, officials in others states said they were going ahead with flu shot using vaccine from the Parke Davis lot.
A Parke Davis spokesman said the company had distributed more than eight million doses of vaccine and confirmed that if it had been shipped to Allegheny County.
Although there is no evidence of problems
with the vaccine used in Allegheny County, Sencer said, some unused samples will be sent to the Bureau of Biologics at Rockville, Md., for testing.
Sencer said he thought one reason the Pennsylvania deaths came to light was the close attention being given the swine flu program by health authorities.
The Disease Control Center, a branch of the U.S. Public Health Service, is running the government's $123 million program to provide immunization against a possible swine flu outbreak
The center dispatched two doctors to Pittsburgh to investigate the deaths. A spokesman said they were sent to "assure ourselves that this was just a coincidence."
There have been no reports from anywhere in the country of deaths or serious reactions directly attributable to the swine flu, even Mr. Greetho, the spokesman for the Center, said.
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