J-M set to offer concessions in union negotiations
J-M proposes concessions including retirement at 65 with ten years service, an extra paid holiday in year three, and a 10 cent cost of living increase in year three as retroactive pay talks loom. Union and company press on a two vs three year pact amid ongoing lockout and picket lines at the diatomaceous earth plant in Lompoc.
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Barnum
J-M
Walt Phillips
Southern Pacific Transportation Co
Phillips
McCall
Gloria Terrones
Lompoc
Johns-Manville Products Co
Gote
Rockets hit PLO offices in Beirut in carborne rocket attack
Rockets launched from atop rented cars and detonated remotely struck the PLO headquarters and two affiliated offices in Beirut causing heavy damage. Four people were wounded as fighters and Lebanese authorities blamed foreign agents, with PLO leaders pointing at Israeli involvement.
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Beirut
UPI
The
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Rashid Solh
Soth
Shafik al Hout
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine General Command
Fatah
Rockefeller poised for Senate confirmation as VP nominee
The Senate faces a straightforward path to confirming Nelson Rockefeller as vice president in a vote later today despite dissent from Sen. Birch Bayh and Sen. Barry Goldwater. Bayh cited concerns about public confidence and possible impropriety while Buckley indicated no disqualification and Cannon praised the extensive inquiry.
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Washington
UPI
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Senate
House
Rockefeller
House Judiciary Committee
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
New York
Bayh
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Ford
Sen
James L. Buckley
R-C-N.y
Howard Cannon
D-Nev
Congress
Solzhenitsyn Receives Nobel Prize in Stockholm Ceremony
Alexander Solzhenitsyn finally receives the 1970 Nobel Literature Prize in Stockholm after years of exile and a ceremony boycotted by Communist diplomats. King Carl Gustaf hands the prize checks totaling about 640000 dollars as Solzhenitsyn’s triumph is marked by warm applause and a Swiss banked 94000 dollar payment.
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Stockholm
UPI
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
Karl Ragnar Gierow
Swedish Academy
Solzhenitsyn
Carl Gustaf
Oslo
Norway
Eisaku Sato
Sean MacBride
Sato
Solzhenitsyns
Soviet Union
Poland
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Bulgaria
Hungary
Cuba
Nobel Committee
George E. Palade
Palade
Yale University
Friedrich von Hayek
United States
Half of San Jose sextuplets perish and rest cling to life
Two more of the world’s latest sextuplets died from respiratory failures within hours of each other in California. Three babies survived as of the report, with one girl under two pounds and a boy about 24 pounds among the deceased. The remaining infants remained in guarded condition at Valley Medical Center.
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San Jose
Calif
County cities gain full share of sales tax under new ordinance
The Board of Supervisors adopted a second reading ordinance to route Santa Barbara Santa Maria Lompoc Carpinteria and Guadalupe to receive a full one percent sales tax share starting July 1, ending county involvement. Mayors urged divorce from county funds. A joint powers pact with Lompoc designates the Artesia School as a historic landmark and funds the County Historical Landmark Advisory Committee, which has no budget after eight years.
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Board of Supervisors
Santa Barbara
Santa Maria
Lompoc
Carpinteria
Guadalupe
Artesia
County Historical Landmark Advisory Committee
Earl Calvert
Francis H. Beattie
Fog Drapes Lompoc Hills in Morning Cover
Fog rests over Lompoc as dawn light softens the horizon. The morning scene hides the town’s rounded hillcrests beneath a pale veil, creating a quiet, muted start to the day.
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Lompoc
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Paul Barnum
Frank Allen
Federal Mediation Service
Tom McCall
International Chemical Workers Union
Jerry Levine
Chris
Scroog
PLO Center
PLO Research Center
Israel
Corniche Mazran
Abdel Kader Daher
al Fatah
Rocky
San Luis Obispo
Valley Medical Center
Charlotte Lange
James Harrod
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