Los Angeles Fire Expands to City Limits
The wildfire from the San Gabriel Mountains grew to 14 000 acres by midnight and reached near Haines and Blanchard canyons. Evacuations were prepared for 35 to 45 homes in Haines Canyon as fire crews fought the blaze in all city canyons.
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Big Tujunga
San Gabriel Mountains
Watts
U.S. Forest Service
Connie Melton
Los Angeles
National Weather Service
Haines Canyon
Verdugo High School
Pasadena
Three Cabins Burn as Lookout Mountain Fire Grows
About 300 firefighters battled a major brush fire near Mt. Baldy that scorched over 2,000 acres and destroyed at least three cabins in the Lookout Mountain area north of Claremont. Aircraft assisted ground crews as flames spread on Glendora Ridge Road ten miles north of Claremont.
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Lookout Mountain
Claremont
Baldy Village
Glendora Ridge Road
Carey asks Legislature to save New York City tax package
Gov. Hugh L. Carey plans a special message to Albany urging lawmakers to set aside local fights and pass the $200 million New York City tax package to avert a municipal default. He will address black and Puerto Rican caucuses and Assembly Republicans threatening to break Democratic unity.
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New York
Hugh L. Carey
New York State
Carey
Ford Administration
Assembly
Albany
Ways and Means
Ship collision near Sicily leaves several dead
In the Mediterranean near Sicily at 10 p.m. Saturday the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy and the guided missile cruiser Belknap collided. Four men were killed, four were missing, and 16 were injured with 55 rescued. Fires were later extinguished aboard the Kennedy and Belknap.
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Rome
Mediterranean Sea
U.S
John F. Kennedy
Navy
Kennedy
Belknap
Sicily
Sixth Fleet
Gaeta
Naples
Cease-fire collapses as Beirut battles kill 29
Civil war violence erupts in Beirut after a truce fails to take hold. At least 29 die and 85 wounded in Beirut alone while fighting spreads to Tripoli and Baalbek as Moslem and Christian factions raid neighborhoods and hostage plots unfold. The army remains uncommitted amid sectarian tensions and foreign mediation falters.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Tripoli
Bekaa Valley
Baalbek
Rashid Karami
Hamra
Karami
Suleiman Franjieh
Maurice Couve de Murville
de Murville
Inmates seize Rikers jail in armed takeover
Inmates armed with broom handles seized six cell blocks at the Rikers Island Men's House of Detention and took five corrections officers hostage. About 1,600 to 1,700 inmates were loose as fires were set, with no injuries reported. Newsmen were briefly admitted amid talks over possible releases. Police and riot units deployed around the island facility.
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New York
Rikers Island
City Correction
Benjamin Malcolm
Malcolm
Rikers
East River
Manhattan
Paul Lieber
Schlesinger cites dimming hope for new arms pact
Former Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger on NBC says chances of a new strategic arms treaty are less than 50 50 next year as Soviet attitudes harden amid a possible succession crisis Brezhnev Kosygin leadership change and a U S defense budget of about 114 to 115 billion.
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Schlesinger
Washington
Soviet Union
Defense
James R. Schlesinger
Ford
NBC
Meet the Press
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
United States
McGovern waits in wings for presidential bid
Independent senator McGovern says he stands by for a possible White House run if other candidates falter. Page A. Resettlement of Indochinese refugees winds down but ongoing problems and complaints persist. Page A-14. Daniel Moynihan may run for Sen. Buckley's New York seat. Page A-16.
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Sen. McGovern
Page A
Daniel Moynihan
Sen. Buckley
New York
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N.Y
Combined News Services
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Newsweek
Michael Lance Carvin
Ronald Reagan
Miami
Carvin
Pompano Beach
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Calvin
Susan T. McElhinny
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