Palestinian fighters defend Tal Zaatar camp as siege ends
In Beirut Lebanon a brief battle ends with Christian forces capturing the 74 acre Tal Zaatar refugee camp after fighting Palestinian public safety units. The last defenders are overwhelmed as Christian commanders claim only about 50 remain and warn of possible shelling or thirsting them out. Arab League envoy Hassan Sabry El Khaly notes efforts for a truce have failed.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Hassan Sabry El-Khaly
Arab League
West
Kholy
Palestine Liberation Organization
Syria
Tal Zaatar
East
West Beirut
Polaroid executive fights to escape kidnap attempt
Polaroid Corp President William McCune dodged two armed assailants in a Waltham parking lot. He suffered a dislocated finger and a scalp wound but remained in good shape. Police identified the suspects as Richard Picariello of Portland and Edward Gullion of Boston, both 27, linked to bombing cases in New England.
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Polaroid
Waltham, Mass
UPI
Polaroid Corp
William McCune
FBI
McCune
New England
Richard Picariello
Portland
Maine
Edward Gullion
Boston
Liberal Republicans in disarray at 1976 GOP convention
Liberal Republicans face a fractured path with no leading candidate as Ford battles Reagan for the nomination. Rockefeller and Schweiker hint at possible runs or alignments, while liberals back Ford as the lesser of two evils and hedge on a moderate vice pick.
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Kansas City, Mo
UPI
Nelson Rockefeller
Reagan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rockefeller
Romney
Scranton
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Sen
Charles Percy
Illinois
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Richard Schweiker
East Coast
Art of the Seearhte
Mathias
Percy
Schweiker
Kansas City
Texas
Treasury
John Connally
Commerce
Elliot Richardson
Maryland
Charles McC. Mathias
Massachusetts
Edward Brooke
Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
Senate blocks bill to halt Los Angeles teacher lottery transfer
In Sacramento a Senate vote fell 20 to 17 on SB1644 to prohibit next year a lottery risk transfer of Los Angeles teachers for racial integration aims. Sen. Alan Robbins sought to pull a Republican supporter from Kansas City to reach 21 votes but failed. A new conferenced draft seeks compromise as Robbins delays further action for 10 days.
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Sacramento
UPS
Senate
California
Assembly
Carpenter
Newport Beach
Alan Sieroty
Los Angeles
Edmund G. Brown Jr
UPI
Alan Robbins
D-Van Nuys
Robbins
Kansas City
Senate Assembly
New Assembly-Senate
T’ll
Board of Education
Public nonsmoking areas approved by Assembly
The Assembly approved the Indoor Clean Air Act AB2291 by 43-18 to create nonsmoking zones in public buildings. The measure targets meeting rooms during sessions and requires posted no smoking signs, with some exemptions for city councils and school boards while noting California’s existing anti smoking ordinances.
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Sacramento
API
Assembly
Senate
Briggs
Richard Robinson
Santa Ana
California
Yuba City bus crash hearings hinge on worn belt
A key witness testified that a worn compressor belt which caused brake failure may have been overlooked during routine checks. The May 21 crash killed 28 students and a chaperon, most of them choir members, and left several injured as the bus toppled from a Martinez off ramp.
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Yuba City
UPI
Jack Huebsch
Huebsch
Gates New Co
Evan Prothero
Irol
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Waltham Hospital
Picariello
Gullion
Augusta
Seabrook
N.H
Newburyport
Mass
Glen Falls, N.Y
John Foran
San Francisco
Pei Orth
State Highway Commission
Foran
Privacy Act
By Barnes
H.L. Richardson
Arcadia
Washington
Maranatha
Mustard Seed
Ryon Park
Lompoc
First Valley Bank of
First Valley Bank
P.S
Phat
Walnut
Yuba
Iron Lines, Inc
Marysville
Philip Hogue
Charles Sweet
Martinez
Mastro
South “S Street
Westside Furniture
W. Gcoan
Jorgensen Jewelers
Lompoc Shopping Center
Lompoc Grange
Cleveland Nets
Boston Lobsters
New York
WOME
Teleprompter
D’’ Street
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