Shuttle Enterprise completes maiden solo flight and landing
Edwards Air Force Base reports the space shuttle Enterprise completed its first solo flight and landing with a 5 minute 23 second run, after a staged piggyback ascent aboard a Boeing 747. Officials say this success can trim future free flight tests and accelerate the shuttle program toward the first orbital flight planned for March 1979 from Kennedy Space Center.
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James P. Sweeney
Edwards Air Force Base
Enterprise
Kennedy Space Center
Florida
California restores capital punishment after veto override
California legislators override Gov. Brown on SB155, voting 54 to 26 to reinstate the death penalty. The new law allows immediate penalties for treason and 15 murders, but bars execution for those under 18, aligning with court guidelines. Assemblyman Kapiloff condemned the override as sanctioning the cheapening of life.
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Sacramento
UPS
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Assembly
Brown
George Deukmejian
R-Long Beach
Alister McAlister
D-San Jose
McAlister
Richard Alatorre
Los Angeles
Deukmejian
State Supreme Court
U.S
Larry Kapiloff
San Diego
Lompoc Plans State Project Water Commitment
Lompoc to file a commitment for at least 2500 acre feet of state project water to reduce overdraft. City Attorney Alan Davidson says no dissent and plans talks with Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District within 60 days on joint financing. Delivery not expected before 1985 or 1986, pending voter approval and financial review.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc
Alan Davidson
Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District
Davidson
County Water Agency
Thomas M
Stetson
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Vandenberg Village
Mission Hills
South
Santa Barbara
Water District
Stanley C. Hatch
Santa Ynez
Hatch
Boyd Bettencourt
Cachuma
Joe Foss
Vance presses Rhodesia peace effort with British allies
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met with British Foreign Secretary David Owen and South African Foreign Minister Roelof Botha in London to refine a joint Anglo American plan for Rhodesia transfer of power to a black majority by spring 1978. Prime Minister Callaghan invited talks at Chequers with Tanzanian President Nyerere, while protests outside the Foreign Office underscored the delicate path ahead.
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London
UPI
Cyrus Vance
Rhodesia
Middle East
Vance
David Owen
Roelof F
Pik
Botha
Ian Smith
Carlton Gardens
South Africa
Foreign Office
James Callaghan
Owen
Chequers
Julius Nyerere
Carter seeks wide support for Panama Canal treaty
President Carter has contacted Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger as part of a broad effort to persuade the public to back a Panama Canal treaty. Carter plans to endorse later today the agreements in principle reached by U S ambassadors Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz with Panamanian negotiators. Powell said Carter spoke by phone to Ford and Kissinger from Plains Georgia and to many others while Congress members have shown cautious openness.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Gerald Ford
Henry Kissinger
Jody Powell
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Sol Linowitz
Powell
Ford
Kissinger
Plains
Congress
U N Ambassador urges U S aid to Caribbean democracies
Andrew Young pressed for U S economic assistance to Caribbean nations to stabilize governments and protect democracy. He cited commodity price swings and oil imports as pressures, met Trinidad Prime Minister Eric Williams, and defended Carter human rights policies against Soviet charges.
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Port-Of-Spain
Trinidad
UPI
U.N
Andrew Young
United States
Caribbean
Young
U.S
Eric Williams
Carter
Senate expected to approve gas guzzler tax says Schlesinger
Energy Secretary James Schlesinger said the Senate will likely move toward the administration’s gas guzzler tax plan despite auto-industry opposition. He warned the fight would be uphill and noted industry claims of 23,000 layoffs by 1985 are self serving. The House already approved a weaker version and Senate hearings continued on the broader energy package.
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Washington
UPI
James Schlesinger
Senate
House
Carter
Schlesinger
Senate Finance Committee
CBS Morning News
Senate Committee
Undetermined blaze gutts Orcutt restaurant known as Alexander's Harvest
A fire at Alexander's Harvest Restaurant in Orcutt destroyed the rustic building at 4850 S Bradley Rd. and caused 125000 in damage plus 25000 in smoke and water loss to nearby structures. Three firefighters were injured with non life threatening burns. Responders from Santa Maria Sisquoc Los Alamos and Lompoc Valley plus Santa Maria city and Orcutt Volunteers fought the blaze. Witnesses reported 352 p m call from Union Service Station and speculation cited an electrical breaker box.
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Vaughn Proctor
Orcutt
S. Bradley Rd
Santa Maria
Sisquoc
Los Alamos
Lompoc Valley
City of
Julian White
James Lee
Nils Hendrix
Union Service Station
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