Pompidou declares race for president of France
The article notes President Pompidou declaring his bid for re election amid broader French political coverage. It also outlines Air Force considerations for an inland Minuteman II ICBM test from an underground silo, with SAC pursuing war like readiness and instrumented launches, including potential overland flight to the Pacific target.
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Air Force
Pacific Ocean
Strategic Air Command
Pacific
SAC
South Dakota
Vandenberg
Los Angeles Times
Marvin Miles
Paris
UPI
Georges Pompidou
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Pompidou
U.S
Bank of France
General Confederation of Labor
CGT
France
Jean Drean
National Assembly
National Unity
Fifth Republic
Oil firms win injunctions against Minier in Santa Barbara case
In Los Angeles a federal judge barred Santa Barbara County District Attorney Minier from pursuing criminal charges against Union Oil Humble Oil Texaco Oil and Phillips Petroleum over public nuisance allegations tied to offshore drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel. The ruling pauses prosecutions until a final hearing months away.
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Los Angeles
Santa Barbara County
David D. Minier
Minier
Union Oil
Humble Oil
Texaco Oil
Phillips Petroleum
California
Santa Barbara Channel
Milner
Federal District Court
Albert Stephens, Jr
Thomas Lynch
Stephens
David Staunton
NASA builds new gantry to speed up launch schedule
NASA announces a 174-foot gantry moved from White Sands Missile Range to Vandenberg to support increased launch activity. The facility will serve Delta rockets and the IMP G satellite, with initial use for a polar orbit launch around June 4. The relocation costs total 1.32 million dollars, and the project aims to ease workload from the existing gantry at Cape Kennedy.
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White Sands Missile Range
N.M
Vandenberg Air Force Base
USMR
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Vandenberg
N. M
U.S
Henry R. van Goey
Kennedy Space Center
NASA
Western Test Range
Slc 2
Cape Kennedy
van Goey
Billie Grider
Ksc-Wtr
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co
McDonnell Douglas
Lawrence
Ernie’’ Wright
WAFB
Stearns Roger Corp
Denver
Colo
S. W. Gregory
Stearns-Roger
Stearns Roger
Artist concept of new station eyed by City Council
The City Council will review an artist rendering of a proposed city library as Kruger Bensen Ziemer of Santa Barbara begins elevations and preliminary design. Project cost is estimated at 351000 for facility and site work, with total near 500000 including contingencies. A June 3 special election will decide a 500000 bond.
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Kruger Bensen Ziemer
Santa Barbara
Gene Wahlers
Maple Avenue
I Street
Deril Waiters elected president of Lompoc Employes Association
Deril Waiters, water maintenance foreman, was elected president to fill the unexpired term of Mel Ramos who resigned to join the new Lompoc Public Safety Officers Association. About 50 police and fire personnel left last week to form the split group, with meetings planned but representatives absent.
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Deril Waiters
Lompoc
Lompoc Public Safety Officers Association
Lompoc City Employes Association
Frank Whelan
Gene Wahlers
Police quell disturbance in San Francisco Fillmore district
Police moved into San Francisco's Fillmore district after a clash with Black Panther members sparked by a confrontation at their headquarters. About 600 people dispersed after tear gas and arrests as two injured and one person jailed. The unrest echoed in Cairo Illinois where gunfire drove firemen and police from a housing project, with state police later deployed.
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United Press International
San Francisco
Fillmore
Black Panther Party
Cairo
Ill
Winston-Salem
N.C
Linden
San Quentin
California
Illinois
Richard B. Ogilvie
Johnson to be welcomed at Lompoc barbecue
Maj. Gen. Gerald W. Johnson commander of the 1st Strategic Aerospace Division at Vandenberg AFB will be officially welcomed tonight at a Lompoc style barbecue at the Village Country Club. The event, hosted by the Military Affairs Committee of the Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce, starts at 7 p.m.
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Gerald W. Johnson
1St
Strategic Aerospace Division
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Lompoc
Village Country Club
Lompoc Valley
Planners urge radical changes to Lompoc airport plan
Lompoc Planning Commission recommends major edits to the County Master Plan of Airports to reflect two scheduled airlines and new projections for population and air traffic through 1980. County officials dispute earlier estimates, citing an eight day monitoring program showing over 25 000 annual operations and urging five new hangars and 80 more acres south of the runway.
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Lompoc
Paul Price
County Public Works Department
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Employe Assoc
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