This Day In 1970's History: Friday January 12, 1979
- Employment and unemployment were almost unchanged in December, a Labor Department report said. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall said that the increase in jobholders and the decrease in joblessness over the last two years was "a tremendous national accomplishment." [New York Times]
- Bella Abzug and the President clashed at a White House meeting on women's issues and Mrs. Abzug lost her job as co-chairman of the President's National Advisory Committee on Women. She was dismissed, a White House official said, because she "attempted to lecture the President on the duties of the committee and its role in serving the needs of its constituents." Before the meeting, the committee distributed a press release criticizing Mr. Carter's economic policies. [New York Times]
- "I am Governor again," Marvin Mandel said at Maryland's state house in Annapolis, which he left a year and a half ago as a convicted bribe-taker. His conviction was overturned Thursday by a federal appeals court, vacating a four-year prison sentence. Mr. Mandel declined for now to formally return to office for the five days remaining in his term. [New York Times]
- The F.B.I. will lose nearly 300 agents in the 1980 fiscal year if Congress does not restore budget cuts proposed by the administration, official sources said. The bureau's force of special agents would be reduced from 7,904 to about 7,600. The budget cut is not more severe than those being planned for other agencies, but it would mark the fifth consecutive yearly reduction in the bureau. [New York Times]
- An I.R.S. investigation of the political activities of the People's Temple could lead to the revocation of its tax-exempt status and the payment of back taxes by the Temple's executors that could amount to millions of dollars, sources close to the inquiry said. [New York Times]
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