Action Line answers Long Beach readers questions
The Action Line column offers guidance on work with Project HOPE aboard the hospital ship, TV repair charges, launching boats at Golden Avenue, Esperanto resources, and bus routes to LAX. Readers seek practical help on employment, consumer issues, and local services with named contacts and locations.
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Long Beach
Calif
USS Hope
G. B
Project Hope
Education Department
Wisconsin St. NW
Washington, D.C
Floating Hospital and Medical Training Center
Philadelphia
Ceylon
Tunisia
Anson Campbell
Martime
Campbell
Soviet fleet of 94 vessels offshore near Virginia
A large Soviet bloc fleet, about 94 ships including 69 trawlers and five 600 foot factory ships, loitered 12 miles off the U S coast under Coast Guard surveillance. About half were fishing, some ships waved at a Coast Guard plane, with nine trawlers and a mother ship near Wallops Island and others 60 miles south off Hampton Roads. No contact had been made since Saturday.
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Portsmouth
U.S
Coast Guard
Leon N. Velenchenko
Elizabeth City
N.C
Virginia Coast
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Wallops Island
Wallops
Maryland Line
Hampton Roads
Gunmen Rob Gardena Supermarket For $10000
Two bandits wearing long black leather coats robbed Albertsons Market at 2900 W Ro secrans Ave in Gardena of $10000 Sunday night. A crate boy fled to a door but was frightened off by a gunshot fired by the robbers as they escaped.
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Gardena
Albertson's Market
W. Rosecrans Ave
Craig Stewart
Five Hurt in $100000 Ocean Boulevard Apartment Fire
Five persons were injured as a landmark Ocean Boulevard Patrician Palms apartment complex burned early Sunday. About 40 residents fled to the street while seven were led down ladders from upper floors. The blaze, starting on a first floor, caused near 100000 in damage. two seriously hurt were a man and wife who fell from a makeshift lifeline and from a third floor window.
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Ocean Boulevard
E. Ocean
Giant TacSat 1 satellite boosts frontline military comms
Cape Kennedy reports a Titan 3C launch placed the $30 million TacSat 1 satellite into a final orbit about 22 300 miles above the Pacific. The eight foot diameter, 1600 pound craft will flash alerts and relay two way messages to front line troops, air and sea units, marking a new era in field communications.
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Cape Kennedy
UPS
Space
Air Force
Pacific
Defense Department
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A witty remark states that any man who yields when he is right is weak and probably married, reflecting a humorous social quip about marriage and stubbornness.
Lakewood Stadium Blaze Blamed on Arson Investigators Seek Suspects
Lakewood High School stadium suffered a major fire beneath the bleachers killing metal seats and damaging equipment. Firefighters found an unmonitored storage area behind chain linked fencing and believe arson caused the 10 11 p m Saturday blaze. Damage estimated at least thirty thousand dollars to the stadium and six thousand to stored gear with seven engine companies on scene.
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Lakewood High School
Lee Hamilton
Snowstorm Paralyzes East Coast
A powerful East Coast snowstorm dumped up to 16 inches across Virginia to Boston with gale winds. New York, Boston, Connecticut, northern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania faced port closures, transit shutdowns, power outages, and several traffic fatalities. Weather grounded air travel and disrupted the Long Island Rail Road.
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New York
UPI
Virginia
Boston
Long Island Rail Road
Connecticut
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Berlin bar on West German delegates to West Berlin
East Germany announced it will bar West German state and federal delegates from traveling to West Berlin where a federal president is to be elected on March 5. ADN said restrictions start February 15. The move risks a confrontation with President Nixon's February 27 visit. The West German government condemned the action as aggressive and peace disrupting.
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Britain
France
West Berlin
Bonn
Washington
State Department
White House
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Berlin
East Germany
ADN
West Germany
Federal Assembly
Nixon
Communists devise safe embarrassment plan for Nixon Europe
The Communists have devised a relatively safe means of embarrassing President Nixon during his first visit to Europe. The article notes a cautious approach amid diplomatic travel and public scrutiny.
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Nixon
Europe
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