This Day In 1970's History: Thursday December 16, 1976
- The oil price question was settled at least for the next six months at the meeting of the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries in Qatar with a 5 percent increase for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and a 10 percent rise for the 11 other member countries. This was a "temporary resolution," the Venezuelan oil minister said. All 13 ministers agreed to the settlement. [New York Times]
- The swine flu immunization program was suspended by federal officials because the shots may have been linked to recently reported cases of paralysis. The Federal Center of Disease Control in Atlanta, which was in charge of the flu shot program, was investigating reports from at least 14 states of 94 cases, four of them fatal, of a form of paralysis called the Guillain-Barre syndrome. [New York Times]
- Three more appointees to his administration, including its first black member, Representative Andrew Young of Georgia, were announced by President-elect Carter. Mr. Young was named chief United States delegate to the United Nations. Charles Schultze, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was named chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Columbia University professor, will head the National Security Council. [New York Times]
- Blacks were among a number of prominent Americans who have declined high-level positions in his administration, Mr. Carter disclosed at a news conference in Plains, Ga. There seems to be some resentment among blacks that Mr. Carter appears to have given little consideration to naming a black as Secretary of the Treasury or chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Blacks who rejected jobs reportedly did not want appointments in the giant agencies that deal with social problems on the ground that the jobs held no future. [New York Times]
- Former President Richard Nixon and two members of his administration were ordered by a federal district court judge in Washington to pay damages to Morton Halperin, a former Nixon White House aide, and his family. Judge John L. Smith said that Mr. Nixon, former Attorney General John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman, Mr. Nixon's White House chief of staff, had violated the constitutional rights of the Halperin family when the family telephone was tapped over a period of 21 months. [New York Times]
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