This Day In 1970's History: Friday May 7, 1976
- President Ford vetoed a $4.4 billion foreign aid bill on the ground that "unprecedented restrictions" in the bill would "seriously inhibit my ability to implement a coherent and consistent foreign policy." He had told leaders in Congress two weeks ago that he would probably not approve the measure, which provided authorization for economic and military aid for the fiscal year ending June 30 and for the three-month interval before the start of the 1977 fiscal year on Oct. 1. [New York Times]
- The number of employed people rose in April, setting a record for a month, but the national unemployment rate was unchanged at the recession level of 7.5 percent, according to the Labor Department's monthly employment report. The number of employed persons last month rose by 707,000 to 87.4 million, exceeding the March 1975 recession low by nearly 3.3 million. The total number of unemployed people was 7,040,000, seasonally unchanged from March. [New York Times]
- A newspaperwoman whose alleged "special relationship" with the Federal Bureau of Investigation was reported to Congress last week has been dismissed by The Nashville Tennessean, where she had been employed as a copy editor and writer. Jacque Srouji said the dismissal had resulted from a charge that she had been an undercover agent for the F.B.I., which she denied. Mrs. Srouji's contacts with the bureau are of interest to Congress because of the recent report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities that the bureau had used persons employed by news organizations as part of its broad effort to hurt the reputations of citizens and organizations selected as "targets." [New York Times]
- The Allied Chemical Corporation was indicted by a federal grand jury in Richmond on 1,094 criminal charges in the discharging of the ant poison Kepone into the James River. The discharges have forced a shutdown of a multimillion-dollar fishing industry. Employees of the Life Science Products Company, which produced Kepone for Allied Chemical, are suing Allied for more than $100 million, contending that they suffered Kepone poisoning after exposure to dust from the pesticide. [New York Times]
- The known death toll in the earthquake that struck northeastern Italy Thursday night climbed today into the many hundreds. Several hundred people were reported missing and more than 1,000 were injured. The quake turned villages at the foothills of the Alps into rubble and its tremors were felt in six countries. [New York Times]
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