Viet Cong Attack Hits Cam Ranh Bay Hospital Ward
Viet Cong commandos infiltrated Cam Ranh Bay base near Saigon and bombed wards housing wounded GIs. Two Americans were killed and 57 wounded as fighting lasted about 30 minutes. The assault followed a bombing in Cholon that killed eight and injured about 60 at a South Vietnamese military school.
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Walter Whitehead
Saigon
UPI
U.S
Cam Ranh Bay
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cholon
U. S
Red Cross
Bill Nix
Bethalto
Lll
Harold Young
Pueblo
Colo
Area CAP youths honored for aviation study in Lompoc and Vandenberg
Fourteen Lompoc area youths and four from Vandenberg Civil Air Patrol Squadron 101 received awards for nearly three months of aviation study. Cadets Karl Lopez John Croas Dennis Lopez and Michael Allen earned promotions while others from Lompoc earned achievement ribbons. Base cadets Robert Gill Gary Farmer Dave Robertson and Ed Gill completed courses including Introduction to Airspace Navigation Weather and Aircraft in Flight. The squadron meets Tuesdays and contact details are provided for those interested.
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Lompoc
Vandenberg
Vandenberg Civil Air Patrol Squadron 101
Karl Lopez
John Croas
Dennis Lopez
Michael Allen
William Mixsell
Steve White
Chris Fryatt
Laura Croas
Frank Stone
Charles Lehtinen
Dennie Johnson
Jeannie Day
Mike Boufford
Richard Brandon
Robert Gill
Gary Farmer
Dave Robertson
Ed Gill
Capt
Nachman
Whitefield
Naked Came a Stranger fuels bestseller buzz
Twenty five Newsday writers in Garden City devised a provocative novel to mock sensational best sellers. They each penned a chapter under the alias Penelope Ashe with a strict focus on sex, aiming to critique trashy literature while Milked into a nationwide buzz.
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Garden City
N.Y
UPI
Long Island
Newsday
Jacqueline Susann
Penelope Ashe
Mike McGrady
Gene Goltz
Miss Susann
Harold Robbins
John Cummings
Mike
Nieman
Harvard
Legislature stalls over taxes and school aid in California
In Sacramento Republicans and Democrats battled to adjournment over two main fights taxes and school aid. A $134 million school aid package plus Gov Reagan's $87 million income tax rebate faced opposition from Democrats led by Assemblyman Veysey and Senator Teale. The plan would boost funding for remedial reading gifted programs and move money toward general education with targeted grants for urban districts junior college construction and tax-rate procedure changes.
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Sacramento
UPI
Assembly
Senate
Ronald Reagan
Victor V. Veysey
Democratic
George Moscone
San Francisco
Reagan
George Deukmejian
Long Beach
California Senate passes campus disorder bills amid debate
Senate approved two strengthened Assembly measures on campus unrest after warnings from George Moscone. The Murphy bill imposes jail terms for obscene language and bans on amplifiers without permits, while the Stull bill suspends state aid and permits firings for disturbances. If the Assembly rejects changes, the measures risk dying before adjournment.
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Dennis J. Opatrny
Sacramento
UPS
Senate
Assembly
California
George Moscone
Moscone
San Francisco
Judiciary Committee
John G. Schmitz
R-Tustin
Schmitz
Death certificates provide some laughs
A 1917 Wisconsin quirk story quotes death certificates by physicians with malapropisms. Phrases include Died suddenly at age 103 Went to bed feeling well but woke up dead and Deceased died from blood poison caused by a broken ankle after an automobile struck him.
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Merillan
Wis
UPI
Wisconsin Leader
State Board of Health
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Reds
Gloria Garcia
Frank V Garcia
Third St
Lompoc High School
Area Cap
Detroit
Edward F. Turowski
Turowski
Lompoc Record
Lompoc Record Publications
Kenneth L. Adam
J. Donald Adam
Harry J. Crompe
Gaylen Jackson
Jim Ainsworth
John Alexander
Wesley A. Huffman
Ray McCuen
Wilma Jack
Dan Duffy
California Newspaper Pub Ushers Association
United Press International
International Press Institute
Inter-American Press Association
Na Onal Newspaper Association
California Press Association
Gill Fox
NEA, Inc
Nem
Paul Newman
Che Guevara
20Th Century-Fox
Omar Sharif
Che
Jack Palance
Fidel Castro
Panda Bears
SAT. JR. Matinee
Hombre
Vane
Walt Disneys
Peter Ne
Walt Disney Productions
Walt Disney
Technicolor
Panavision
Walt Disney Productions Ee
Gan
Movie Timetable
London
Britain
Japan
Frank Murphy
Santa Cruz
John Stull
Leucadia
John L. Harmer
Allendale
Sen
Nicholas C. Petris
Oakland
House
Brooks
Fence and Atio CO. E
Linnett's Annual
Women's & Children's
Lompoc Shopping Center
Irs
Marquise Diamond
SAI & DI
Ee Leer
Santa Maria
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