Southern California hit by heavy rains and floods
Officials reported reservoirs well below normal as a large low pressure system off the Pacific drove warm tropical air inland. Flooding closed streets and freeways from Norwalk to Santa Barbara, with power outages in Los Angeles and 6000 emergency calls to the Automobile Club.
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Norwalk
San Diego
Artesia
Crenshaw
Southern California Edison Co
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Proxmire Works a New York Sanitation Shift
Senator William Proxmire joined a Roosevelt Island Sanitation Department crew for a five hour unannounced shift in 20 degree weather. He loaded garbage, rode to the dump, and observed typical operations before meeting HUD regional staff.
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New York
William Proyviue
D-Wise
Roosevelt Island
Proxmire
Flatbush
Louis Cardella
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Sanitation Department
Middle East peace effort amid regional reactions
Reports from Ismailia and Cairo describe mixed progress as Begin and Sadat brief allies after their summit. Syria and Libya revive a historic federation as anti Sadat rallies unfold in Hama. Diplomatic signals show cautious optimism and continued demands for Palestinian self rule or independence.
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D-Ind
Barnelt
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Hayakawa jokes about budgeting on the Budget Committee
Senator Hayakawa of California says his Budget Committee post is simple math though he once feared money management. He explains that figures are always in billions and hundreds of millions, with 1.0 meaning 1 billion and 1.7 becoming 2.9 for the next year.
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Hayakawa
Budget Committee
Washington
R-Calif
Senate Budget Committee
Harper’s Magazine
Citywide $100,000 reward for strangler expires Sunday
Supervisors warn time is running out on the county reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer or killers. The notice ends at 12:01 a.m. Sunday and no other rewards carry a similar deadline, stirring public fear amid a string of murders.
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Kenneth Habu
Hahn
Los Angeles
Copter crash kills Boston pilot and reporter
A helicopter crash in Quincy killed Boston reporter Henry Chip Whitmore 29 and pilot Richard Red Bank 58 while they filled in for a vacationing colleague. Four tenants were injured as the craft struck an apartment building and exploded.
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WBZ
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Richard “Red Bank
Marlboro
Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission
WEEL
Kevin O'Keefe
Ronald Michaelson
Lynn
Texan chosen as new Democratic Party chief
President Carter selected John White deputy agriculture secretary and Texas native to head the Democratic Party replacing Kenneth Curtis. White will meet Carter at 10 30 a m and succeeds Curtis who resigned after a brief tenure amid staff criticism and party debt reduced from 3 8 million to 2 5 million.
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John White
Democratic Party
White House
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Kenneth Curtis
Curtis
Maine
Jody Powell
Hberals
California
Chuck Mannatt
Tim Kraft Mannatt
Gov
Brown
Kraft
Bob Bergland
Agriculture Department
Democratic National Committee
Joel McCleary
Carter previews 1978 in White House TV interview
President Carter will be interviewed in an hourlong program from the White House Red Room starting at 5 p.m. PST. The session largely reflects on 1977 and plans for 1978 including Carter's Europe India and Near East trip with Rosalynn. Questioners include Walters McNeil Brokaw and Schieffer. He will travel to Poland Iran India Saudi Arabia Ireland and Belgium, returning January 6.
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Barbara Walters
ABC
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PBS
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NBC
Rob Schieffer
CBS
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Saudi Arabia
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Belgium
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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