California approves major junior and senior high reform bill
Senate approves the Reform of Intermediate and Secondary Education in a 21 to 11 vote sending it to Governor Brown. The plan named RISE would cost about 141 million dollars yearly when fully phased in with 3.6 million in planning this year. It requires minimum standards in math and English and more parental teacher and student involvement with phased school implementation and annual evaluation after year three.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Senate
Wilson Riles
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Assembly
John Dunlap
D-Napa
Brown
Department of Finance
A. Alan Post
State Board of Education
RISE
Kidnap Victim Found Dead In California Home
A Los Alamitos housewife, Joann Seigman, 43, abducted with her three children by two armed masked men, was later found shot to death. Police found the children abandoned in a van. the wife’s killing followed an aborted extortion plot that began at the home Wednesday night. The husband, John Seigman, waited in a grocery-store booth with a bag containing $3,000. Authorities searched for two to three suspects. tips from citizens aided responders as they cordoned the scene.
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Los Alamitos
Calif
UPI
Johann 43
Nignapers
John Seigman
Seigman
Orange County
Sam Middleton
Middleton
Debates begin as Ford Carter hold first rules session
Ford and Carter opened ground rules talks with the League of Women Voters for the first presidential debates since 1960. Ruckelshaus and Powell led sides after a three hour session, planning a second meeting and signaling partial agreement on issues to date.
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Ford
Jimmy Carter
William D. Ruckelshaus
Carter
Jody Powell
League of Women Voters
Robert Dole
Nixon
Plains
Dole
Zulu gang clashes subside in Soweto unrest
In Soweto clashes between Zulu tribesmen and black militants ease as Police Minister Kruger calls the violence child s play. Police report 35 dead and hundreds injured over nine weeks of racial turmoil with 285 deaths nationwide. Late Thursday Zulus returned to hostels chanting war is over.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
UPI
Soweto
Jimmy Kruger
Kruger
Pretoria
Mills Calls For Resignation Of Highway Commission
Senate Pro Tem James R. Mills of San Diego demands resignations from California highway officials after criticizing a six year plan for highway and freeway maintenance and construction. He targets a San Diego member Joseph Sinnott and urges any commissioner not following state will to resign. The issues stem from the Eureka July meeting and a transportation department proposal.
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Sacramento
UPI
Senate
James R. Mills
Commission
Eureka
Mills
San Diego
Joseph F. Sinnott
L.R. Gillis
California
Department of Transportation
Independent Party Holds National Convention in Chicago
The American Independent Party met in Chicago to draft a platform and select presidential candidates Lester Maddox Robert Morris and John Rarick. Delegates argued for a midstream America focus opposing abortion and gun control while supporting right to work and ending income tax, with about 600 delegates registered amid plans for up to 1,000 attendees from 40 states.
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Chicago
UPI
American Independent Party
America
Georgia
Lester Maddox
Dallas
Robert Morris
Louisiana
John Rarick
Wisconsin
John M. Couture
AIP
Midstream
Couture
South Africa
Rhodesia
Second Viking orbit planned
In Pasadena California scientists prepared Viking 2 for an orbit around Mars that aligns daily with its planned Utopia landing site. The goal is a synchronous orbit over the same spot each day to support life detection experiments alongside Viking 1 while studying Martian moisture and soil.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
America
Viking
Mars
Plains
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Red Planet
Viking 2
Reagan set to resume radio and column duties
Ronald Reagan plans to restart his radio program of conservative commentaries on September 13 and begin writing a syndicated column. He will also tour a national speech circuit with about 500 invites since the convention. Hollywood producer Harry O Connor said 100 stations have signed to air the five minute spots, with hundreds more likely before January.
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GOP
Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
California
Reagan
Harry O’connor
Hollywood
Wade
Ronald Rea
Barry Goldwater
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Michael Deaver
RTD strike leaves drivers mechanics unpaid amid payroll dispute
Los Angeles United Press International reports striking bus drivers and maintenance workers in the Southern California Rapid Transit District face unpaid wages as payroll clerks refuse to process pay due to picket lines. Nonunion staff will receive about 3.8 million dollars. union members await pay, with legal action considered to speed payments.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Southern California Rapid Transit District
St String Ves
RTD
Nickel carbonyl eyed as clue in Legionnaires deaths
Scientists focus on nickel carbonyl as a possible cause of Legionnaires disease that has killed at least 28 people and sickened 149, with victims including Legion convention attendees at Philadelphia and others not linked to the event. President Ford faced exposure criteria but showed no illness.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Ford
American Legion
Bellevue Stratford Hotel
Ron Nessen
Vail
Colo
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Paul
Lompoc Junior High School
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Texas
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White House
Richard B. Cheney
West
Steven
Baseline Ave
Ballard
Gert Prinsloo
Highway
Independent Party
Pepperdine University
Lompoc
Species Area
EL Camino School
Camino
Santa Maria
Roe Darnell
Cabrillo High School
San Luis Obispo
By Barnes
Mexico
Amalgamated Transit Union
Drivers
F. William Sunderman Jr
University of Connecticut Medical Center
Don Berreth
National Center For Disease Control
Legion Convention
Westside Furniture
Valley Florist
Noch
George Barnes, Sr
Welnut Plaza
North
Pizza Palace
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