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Thirteen persons—ten of them officers of the HomeStake Production Company—have been charged in Los Angeles in a 39‐count Federal indictment with bilking investors of tens of millions of dollars in a fraudulent tax‐shelter scheme. Page 69.
HR and Sen pass by large margins measures to provide hundreds of thousands of federally financed public service jobs for unemployed workers and pay unemployment compensation to 3-million persons not now covered by Fed unemployment ins system; HR passes, 374-2, measure to give at least 13 additional wks of unemployment compensation to those already covered by Fed system; measure now goes to Conf Com, which is expected to reconcile differences between HR and Sen versions before end of next wk; provisions under both bills outlined; NYS expected to get from 10 to 12% of appropriation; NYS legislators say some of money could go to NYC employes now being laid off (M)
day-long negotiations between NYC Mayor Beame and leaders of major city employe unions result in plan for early retirement of workers aged 63 to 65 to avert need to dismiss 860 younger workers; number of dismissals is actually unaffected; Beame says recent lay-offs and new economies will decrease budget deficit from $430-million to $135.4-million, but warns that early retirement formula is only partial solution of larger problem; union leaders Victor H Gotbaum (State, County and Munic Employes), Richard J Vizzini (Uniformed Firefighters Assn) and Ken McFeeley (PBA) comment; Beame credits pension consultant Jack Bigel for developing plan; illus of Gotbaum, Vizzini, John T Maye (Transit Police) Morton Bahr (CWA), McFeeley and Harold Brown (Correction Officers)
BLS repts that steep increase in sugar prices was main factor in pushing Consumer Price Index for processed food and feed up by 3.4% in Nov (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 11, 1974, covering December 13, 1974.
Elton John
The Rolling Stones
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Jethro Tull
Neil Diamond
1974Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician (born 1889)[†]
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu was a Turkish novelist, journalist, diplomat, and member of parliament.
1974Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.[†]
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago 80 km (50 mi) south of Italy, 284 km (176 mi) east of Tunisia, and 333 km (207 mi) north of Libya. The two official languages are Maltese and English. The country's capital is Valletta, which is the smallest capital city in the EU by both area and population. It was also the first World Heritage City in Europe to become a European Capital of Culture in 2018.
1974In the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese forces launch their 1975 Spring Offensive (to 30 April 1975), which results in the final capitulation of South Vietnam.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]