California welfare reform promises reforms but raises taxes
Sacramento reports say California will face a $300 million tax increase next year despite welfare and medical reform bills signed by Governor Reagan. The reforms aim to curb abuses while financing a modest AFDC boost for two thirds of recipients and inflation-based increases from July 1973, with changes delayed until Oct 1 to prepare counties.
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Sacramento
UPI
Reagan
Verne Orr
Treasury
Orr
Democratic Assembly
Bob Moretti
van Nuys
AFDC
Gun battle erupts near border as British troops clash with civilians
British soldiers exchanged fire with civilians near the Ireland Northern Ireland border while gunmen on the Republic side fired at a Northern Ireland police station. In Belfast barricade clearing sparked gunfire with no reported casualties. An Ulster army patrol near Newry engaged 10 to 15 men. three believed wounded. In Londonderry troops used gas and rubber bullets.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Irish Republic
Ireland
Turf Lodge
Falls Road
Marston Tickell
Ulster
Newry
Londonderry
Violence Flare Near Belleek As Stones Fly At Soldiers
About 100 civilians stoned soldiers clearing barricades near the Ireland Northern border town of Belleek. Fifteen shots fired from across the border at the police station. No injuries reported among soldiers or police. one bullet hit a boot. Belfast remained quiet as the capital reeled from widespread destruction with shattered homes and streets.
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Northern Ireland
Belleek
Army
Belfast
Syrian troops poised for further action near Jordan border
Syrian troops backed by tanks sit on hills overlooking Jordan as clashes flare across the border. Egypt Libya and Syria move toward a federation of Arab Republics while Cairo seeks cooling talks with Damascus to halt escalation amid Palestinian guerrilla clashes with Israel.
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Jordan
Middle East
Israel
Egypt
Syria
Libya
Sudan
Mohammed Ahmed Sadeh
Damascus
Hafez Assad
Beirut
Cairo
al Ahram
Anwar Sadat
Assad
Berkeley City Council Faces Backlash From Radicals
Joseph F. Hill a 35 year old police captain announced he will quit Sept 15 taking a Sacramento consultant job citing the council’s radical members as a factor. Hill said the department has become a political football and criticized a $64000 grant for the microfilm records system and insults toward Police Chief Bruce Baker during budget talks.
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Berkeley
UPI
Joseph F. Hill
Hill
Sacramento
Bruce Baker
Apollo 15 astronauts face medical difficulties and fatigue
Space center reports unexpected medical issues during the Apollo 15 mission raise questions about safe workload in space. Dr Berry notes the need for a longer flight to study rest and debriefings resume as Scott Irwin Worden rest and report on the 12 day lunar expedition.
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David R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
U.S
Berry
Scott
Irwin
Wallace vows to defy federal busing orders again
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace vowed to countermand a third federal desegregation order next Monday unless President Nixon acts. He ordered Limestone County’s previously all black school reopened and moved a white student in Jefferson County, urging a nationwide halt to busing if no action arrives.
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Montgomery
Ala
UPI
George C. Wallace
Nixon
Washington
Ronald L. Ziegler
Wallace
Alabama
Limestone County
Jefferson County
Hobson City
Calhoun County
A.W. Clemon
U.S
Birmingham
Clemon
Justice Department
Rezoning hearing eyed for motorized recreation area
The County Planning Commission will hear a rezoning request by Split Pea Anderson's of Buellton to convert parts of the Bazzi agricultural preserve along U.S. 101 south of the Santa Ynez River from general agricultural to highway commercial. County officials caution the riverbottom site may host motorbike use rather than a racetrack and require removal from the preserve with penalties. A General Plan conformity review is also needed, with a 1:45 p.m. hearing start in the County Engineering Building.
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County Planning Commission
Pea Anderson's
Buellton
Leasee
Bazzi Agricultural Preserve
U.S. 101
Santa Ynez River
Andersen
Dazed girl identified in Lompoc case
A 16 year old girl identified as Vickie Rucker of Lompoc was found dazed and incoherent and is hospitalized with head and face injuries. Police traced a wrecked motorcycle at a field near Central and O Streets and noted two unidentified men moved the girl to Lompoc Hospital earlier.
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Vickie Rucker
Lompoc
Goleta Valley Hospital
Wanda Keys
Central and
O Streets
David W. Harmon
Chestnut Ave
Harmon
Lompoc Hospital
Carla Gilmore
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