This Day In 1970's History: Friday November 12, 1976
- The first formal talks between American and Vietnamese diplomats since Saigon fell last year opened in Paris. The conference was considered a probing, preliminary meeting to test whether conditions were favorable for top-level negotiations on all issues. [New York Times]
- Government spending for the coming 1978 fiscal year is expected to approach or exceed $450 billion, even if the Carter administration proposes no new programs. The estimate was made by the Ford administration, which said that the projected rise in outlays would amount to about 10 percent. The budget document, required by law, said that the deficit for the present fiscal year could rise to $59.3 billion. [New York Times]
- A storm of protest rose in Mobile, Ala., over a federal court ruling ordering the city to replace its present city government with one more favorable to blacks. A group distributed petitions to impeach the judge who issued the order after concluding that the city commission, with each of its three members elected by citywide vote, "precludes a black voter from an effective participation in the election system." He ordered that a mayor be chosen by citywide vote and nine council members elected from different districts. [New York Times]
- A key witness who testified for the prosecution 10 years ago at the first murder trial of Rubin (Hurricane) Carter gave new and possibly more damaging testimony at the second trial of Mr. Carter and John Artis. The witness testified for the first time that, hours after three persons had been killed, the police showed her a cartridge and a shotgun shell they said they had just found in the car in which the two men were arrested. [New York Times]
- The nation's economic recovery is proceeding more slowly than was predicted by the Ford administration, according to Alan Greenspan, the President's chief economic adviser. In an interview, Mr. Greenspan acknowledged that the economy was still in a "pause" that was lasting longer than expected but that it would end. [New York Times]
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