Pilots Sleep At Controls On BOAC Sydney to Honolulu Flight
The British pilots union cites a BOAC Sydney to Honolulu flight with 125 passengers where the captain, copilot, flight engineer, and another crew member all slept at the controls. The union says fatigue is widespread and calls for reducing monthly flying hours from 100 to 80. BOAC confirms the incident, noting the crew had a 26 hour prior rest and 12 hour flight leg within limits.
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UPI
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British Airline Pilots’ Association
British Airlines
British Overseas Airways Corp
BOAC
Sydney
Honolulu
Association
Sydney-to
California bar nude entertainment ruling upheld by court
California Attorney General Evelle Younger said the Supreme Court ruling upholds the state’s power to regulate obscene entertainment in bars and to ban bottomless dancing and adult movies. The decision allows California to prohibit simultaneous eating and drinking with such performances.
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California
Evelle Younger
U.S. Supreme Court
Reagan pushes tax cut despite possible later tax rise
Governor Ronald Reagan signals a push for an across the board state income tax cut next year even if a future tax hike follows. Legislative Analyst A Earl Post criticizes the plan as fiscally poor policy warning it could force another tax increase.
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Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
A. *Ae Post
Eagan
Post
Belfast policeman shot 24 times
Gunmen using automatic weapons killed a Belfast police officer as he exited a hotel. The attack marks the 29th police death in Northern Ireland violence this period and ties to ongoing sectarian crisis. Talks in Whitelaw's office followed Catholic party discussions amid political tension.
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Belfast
UPI
Northern Ireland
Navy inquiry finds Kitty Hawk riot not the major problem
Rep. Floyd V Hicks heads six day secret hearings on Navy discipline says the October Kitty Hawk race riot was part of, not the core of, broader disciplinary issues. He defended overall Navy discipline while criticizing media for overemphasizing racial incidents aboard Kitty Hawk and Constellation.
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House Armed Services Committee
Floyd V. Hicks
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Kitty Hawk
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Storm shuts St Louis mail as ice cripples Midwest
The first time residential mail service was canceled in St Louis, the U S Postal Service halted deliveries amid a severe ice storm. Chicago and St Louis faced traffic paralysis as hundreds injured in falls, and dozens of schools closed. The storm, branded one of the century’s major ice events, spread from the Plains to the mid Atlantic with snow and freezing rain.
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Nevada
Ellsberg jury laments four month recess curbs on freedoms
In Los Angeles the Pentagon Papers jury, dismissed for a new panel, complains that the four month recess erased their freedoms as others discussed the case. Juror William Abata says the original jury was impartial and sworn in to hear the trial. A new jury selection is delayed while defense challenges the panel’s age diversity.
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UPI
Pentagon Papers
U.S. District Court
Matt Byrne
Daniel Elisberg
Anthony Russo
William F. Abata
Ellsberg and Russo
Rand Corp
California Board weighs creationism in science textbooks
California scientists and Nobel laureates clash with fundamentalists over whether creation theory belongs in public school science texts. The State Board of Education meets to set standards while the National Academy of Sciences urged textbooks stay within scientific matter. Amtrak holiday service between Oakland and Seattle to run daily from Dec 15 to Jan 7 or 8.
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UPI
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California
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Charles Darwin
National Academy of Sciences
State Curriculum Commission
Darwin
Washington
Amtrak
Passenger Train Corporation
Oakland
Seattle
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Sex therapy teams proposed for public divorce prevention
State officials were advised that carefully trained therapy teams could treat sexually distressed couples through public agencies. Dr. Thomas P. Lowry and Mrs. Lowry from the Masters and Johnson Clinic in St. Louis suggested funding via mental health funds and long term societal savings.
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Sacramento
UPI
Thomas P. Lowry
Masters and Johnson Clinic
St. Louis
Department of Mental Hygiene
Lowry
U S spy plane downed over North Vietnam amid clashes
A U S Air Force RF4 Phantom was shot down by a SAM Saturday about 110 miles south of Hanoi. Crews were missing and helicopters rescuing them came under anti aircraft fire. Reports say possible capture of the pilot. airstrikes reduced to 20 sorties.
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