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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1977
Page
1
Sacramento reports Gov. Brown's Finance Dept research unit projects California will house an older population by 2000 with median age rising to 36 from 29 in 1975. The over-45 group will grow 63 percent to 3.3 million, while total population edges past 29.2 million as suburbs expand and crowds move farther from city cores.
A new group American Agriculture calls for a Wednesday food shutdown unless prices rise. Tractorcades have spread nationwide as farmers urge allies to halt grain livestock and farm commodity sales to press for higher pay. Agriculture Secretary Bergland backs balanced action and warns a broad turnout is needed to influence policy and consumer costs.
Secretary Vance said the United States will work to heal splits in the Arab world to foster a full Arab Israeli peace. Begin pledged Israel will seek a comprehensive accord at Cairo, not a separate Israeli Egyptian peace, with Sadat backing the move. Hussein may join Cairo discussions. Assad unlikely to attend until talks move to Geneva. Lebanon hosts about 30,000 Syrian troops as tensions remain high.
A Pacific storm drenched Northern California with rain and snow, closing Sierra passes and triggering small-boat rescues. Meanwhile record low temperatures spread from the Midwest to the East with Toledo reporting 12 below zero and several cities hitting new December lows. Temperatures stayed frigid as snow levels dropped and fronts shifted, with potential for another storm by Wednesday.
A U S military Lockheed P-3 Orion on a training flight struck a 4200 foot mountain in the Canary Islands Sunday, killing 13 of the 17 aboard. Rescue teams recovered 13 bodies and searched for the remaining crewman as the aircraft, departed from Lajes Air Base in the Azores, was to return there.
Sen. Alan Cranston said in Los Angeles he will fly to Washington this week to back a B-1 bomber effort. He plans to attend Thursday’s Senate vote on a supplemental appropriations bill with an amendment to cancel 462 million for completing two more B-1 bombers, hoping the House’s narrow 191-166 vote last week sparks new life in the Senate.
A Santa Ana man died from smoke inhalation after flames spread from a fireplace in a two story home. A Long Beach man and a Los Angeles resident were rescued by a passerby and treated for burns and smoke inhalation. Firefighters extinguished the blaze by 8 30 a.m. with $65 000 in damage.
Two Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Georgy Grechko docked the Soyuz 26 spacecraft with the Salyut 6 space station. They boarded the laboratory and began experiments after docking at 6 02 a m Moscow time Tass said.
A new noninvasive method called graphic stress telethermometry GST detects breast cancer without radiation or surgery. It measures breast temperature via infrared detector across nine sections and compares with forehead temperature, then uses ice water immersion to distinguish benign from malignant lesions.
A nationwide survey shows most Americans favor increased pressure on South Africa to end apartheid. The poll highlights broad public support for diplomatic and economic steps, signaling bipartisan backing for change in Johannesburg's system.
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