Directors of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company voted to raise the quarterly dividend to 95 cents from 85 cents. The increase is the largest ever declared by the company and the 10th since 1959. Page 51.

A.T.&T. Dividend Up

Peron, facing threats of impeachment or mil overthrow, says she will not be candidate for re‐election, but insists on finishing her term, which ends in May '77, TV broadcast; announcement follows meeting of Natl Security Council; Radical Party has reptdly agreed, because of Peron's decision, not to support move to impeach her; Peron illus (M)

MRS. PERON PLANS NOT TO RUN AGAIN

Eddie fowling, for 40 years a stage figure as a singer, dancer, actor, playwright, song writer, producer and director, died yesterday. Page 38,

Eddie Dowling Dies

US Sen passes Internatl Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of '76, which includes $1.5‐billion in arms to Israel; amendment offered by Sen James Abourezk aimed at cutting off mil aid to Israel is rejected by vote of 79‐8 (S)

Senate Votes Overhaul of Military Aid

Gov Carey reiterates his intention to veto Stavisky bill, views conf; contends any attempt to change fiscal plan will destroy Emergency Financial Control Bd's effectiveness; Carey's aides believe NYS Legis is holding bill to allow public pressure againt veto to mount (S)

CAREY ACTS TO END BANKS' REDLINING

Pres Ford on Feb 18 issues exec order which bars illegal use of Fed tax return information starting Mar 1; illus (S)

PRESIDENT LIMITS U.S SURVEILLANCE OF CITIZENS’ LIVES

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 18 &#8212; The Government drafted rebellious municipal policemen and firemen into the army here today in an effort to stem rising unrest and street agitation that has accompanied the first, official visit by King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia to Catalonia.

BARCELONA POLICE DRAFTED BY ARMY

EPA Admr Russell E Train, citing human health hazards, sets immediate ban on mfr of virtually all pesticides containing mercury; stops short of banning all mercurial pesticides, allowing continued output of fungicides containing mercury compounds to treat fabrics intended for outdoor use, for control of brown mold and for control of Dutch elm disease; order will halt output of mercurial pesticides used in paints, varnishes and lacquers and use of such pesticides on turf and in treatment of seeds; EPA repr says move should cut by 98.5% mercury entering environment though pesticide use; Train notes relatively innocuous mercury compounds found in pesticides are converted in environment to toxic methylmercury, which builds up to ever higher levels in food chain; EPA repr notes paint indus accts for almost 90% of mercury used in pesticides; reptdly says ban was sparked by case in which Alamagordo, NM, family became blind and suffered nervous system damage after eating meat from pigs that ate contaminated seeds; Train allows use of products already mfrd (M)

A Ban on Most Pesticides With Mercury Is Ordered

Repr Wayne L Hays reverses himself and proposes legis to continue operations of Fed Election Comm, news conf; Hays, chmn of House Adm Com and chief foe of comm, says Pres Ford has indicated support of Hays's proposed legis; Cong sources see Hays's about‐face as being indicative of momentum gaining within HR to continue comm, and Hays's fear that he might lose floor fight to abolish comm; Hays outlines major provisions of legis; bill would authorize Pres to appt 6‐member comm, which would be confirmed by Sen; would require comm to correct violations by process of conciliation; would prohibit comm from starting investigations based on anonymous complaints; would require comm to promulgate regulations within 30 days; would require pol ads to state whether they were authorized by candidate, or to bear name of persons who financed them; would limit corp pol action coms to soliciting funds from mgt employes or stockholders, and not all employes, and such funds would be limited to 1 com for each corp or subsidiary; Hays says Ford opposes this limit on pol coms, but approves all others (M)

Rep. Hays, Formerly Chief Foe, Backs Federal Election Agency

Fed grand jury, Chicago, on Feb 18 charges 23 mfrs of folding paperboard boxes, including industry's 3 largest, Container Corp of Amer, Federal Paper Board and Amer Can Co, with engaging in criminal conspiracy to fix prices; among individual defendants who work for industry's leaders is Container Corp of Amer pres and chief operating officer R Haroper Brown; 8 officers and employees of Container Corp are named in indictment, largest number of any individual co; 7 officers and employees of Diamond Internatl Corp are named, as are small numbers of officials of other cos; Justice Dept files civil antitrust suit against essentially same list of defendants, asking ct to prohibit any future price‐fixing agreements by these cos on any product charges detailed; cos listed (L)

PRICE FIXING LAID TO 23 PRODUCERS OF FOLDING BOXES

Pres Ford proposes legis to make it serious crime for Govt employes to disclose ways in which CIA and other Fed agencies collect and evaluate their information, message to Cong; proposal is narrower in scope than GB's Official Secrets Act and narrower than proposed reforms of Fed Criminal Code now before Cong; Ford's proposal specifically exempts from criminal prosecution journalists or others who receive such secrets but would allow govt prosecutors to call reporters to testify before grand juries about identities of their sources for articles containing such classified information; proposal is in form of amendment to Natl Security Act of '47; Charles Morgan Jr of ACLU says he is distressed by proposal (M)

Ford Asks Intelligence Disclosure Curb

Phillips Petroleum Co agrees to significant adm changes in settling class action stockholders' suit over co's maintenance of illegal pol slush fund from '64‐72 (L)

Phillips Petroleum Agrees To Change in Reply to Suit

biog sketch; full name is William Warren Scranton; he was born July 19, 1917; por (M)

A Patrician for U.S. Post at the U.N.

Canadian Treas Bd pres Jean Chretien says Govt will limit increases in Fed spending during fiscal yr beginning April 1 to 16% as part of its attack on inflation; plan to curb inflation would result in rise of $6.2‐million over estimated spending of $33.5‐billion for current fiscal yr in spite of savings of $1.5‐billion from various economies; Govt critics contend 16% increase in Fed spending will far exceed rate of inflation; maintain increase would have been more had it not been for austerity measures imposed as part of anti‐inflation campaign ordered by Prime Min Trudeau (M)

Canada Sets Limit Of 16% on Increase In Federal Outlays

Article on preparations for Soviet Communist Party's 25th cong, which will commence on Feb 24; illus (L)

Congresses of Party In Soviet Now a Ritual

Soviet newspaper Izvestia says Soviet and Amer reprs made joint checks for radiation at US Embassy in Moscow and found no danger to health (M)

Soviet Denies U.S. Embassy Health Risk

More than 1,000 paintings and drawings worth $1.5‐million are stolen from George Costakis, owner of 1 of most valuable private art collections in USSR (S)

Moscow Art Collector Reports Big Robbery

Pres Ford, in submitting to Cong US mil cooperation treaty with Spain, says he envisions integration of Spain ‘into insts of Eur and N Atlantic defense system’ (S)

TREATY WITH SPAIN SENT TO CONGRESS

Defense Dept notifies Cong that it intends to sell Saudi Arabia construction equipment worth $893‐million for work on 2 ports, on Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and 3 mil facilities, at Jubail, Jidda and Riyadh; proposed offers would bring total US mil sales to Saudi Arabia since June to $3.793‐billion, compared with $1.4‐billion for previous yr (S)

Defense Department Asks Approval of Sale to Saudis

At least 11 people killed and 50 seriously injured on Feb 17 when speeding train hits stationary train near Alexandria, Egypt (S)

11 Die in Egypt Train Crash

Article on labor unrest in Portugal cites recent problems at Timex that has resulted in strike call for next wk to force Govt intervention (S)

PORTUGAL FACING LABOR AGITATION

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Feb. 18 Reuters)&#8212;Ethiopia's military rulers have removed from office the patriarch o?? the country's Orthodox Church, Abuna Theophilos, Addis Ababa radio reported tonight.

Patriarch Is Deposed By Ethiopian Regime

Former Israeli Prime Min Golda Meir strongly urges USSR on Feb 18 to lift restrictions on emigration of Soviet Jews, speech, World Conf on Soviet Jewry, Brussels; says internatl pub opinion should be mobilized to put pressure on Soviet Govt; JDL founder Rabbi Meir Kahane, who is not delegate to conf, is ousted by security officials in melee; earlier, author Elie Wiesel and black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin address delegates (M)

MRS. MEIR PLEADS FOR SOVIET JEWS

Jenmin Jih Pao repts in article that ‘things are not going very well’ for opponents of Chmn Mao and says ‘intense new struggle’ is over ‘continuation and deepening of Great Proletarian Revolution’; opponents are being accused of ignoring Mao's directives on pol struggle and emphasizing econ development; main target is believed to be Deputy Prime Min Teng Hsiao‐ping (S)

Peking Paper Says Opponents of Mao Are Losing Struggle

The Proceedings In the U.N. Today

Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. "This order authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to 'relocation centers' further inland—resulting in the incarceration of Japanese Americans." Two-thirds of the 125,000 people displaced were U.S. citizens.

Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.

February 19, 1976

Headlines from February 19, 1976

A.T.&T. Dividend Up

MRS. PERON PLANS NOT TO RUN AGAIN

Eddie Dowling Dies

Senate Votes Overhaul of Military Aid

CAREY ACTS TO END BANKS' REDLINING

Billboard 200

Desire

Still Crazy After All These Years

Gratitude

Station To Station

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Historical Context for February 19, 1976