This Day In 1970's History: Saturday January 24, 1970
- A congressional staff study of President Nixon's welfare reform proposal reported that it may break up poor working families, put some college students on welfare and indirectly finance the purchase of color television sets. The analysis says that, by extending welfare to working families, the government would be saying that the father could not support his family and thereby destroy what initiative he had. [New York Times]
- Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation continued their search for the person or group believed to have paid a large sum of money for the murder of Joseph Yablonski and his wife and daughter. There were indications, however, that the FBI was trying to enlarge its evidence of a "contract" before making arrests. [New York Times]
- After years of little progress in gaining jobs for minority groups, the government seems on the verge of possible breakthroughs in several areas. Among these are the Philadelphia Plan and the extension of some features of the plan, such as goals for minority jobs, to almost all work done under federal contracts. [New York Times]
- Although they are theoretically still at war, Greece and Albania have agreed to reestablish trade relations that were broken 30 years ago. Details of the agreement were not disclosed. Albania, the only European ally of Communist China, has a surplus of oil and minerals. [New York Times]
- After a six-year delay, the directors of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library are starting to come to grips with the problem of raising the money to build the library. A major roadblock was removed when the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority agreed to vacate its subway-train yards from the proposed construction site. [New York Times]
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