Carter signs Social Security tax hike to fund $227 billion
President Carter signed legislation raising $227 billion in new Social Security taxes over the next decade to rescue the system that pays 33 million people annually. The move increases the tax burden for 107 million workers and employers, with a promise of a tax cut in 1978 to offset higher costs. Leaders skepticism noted and promises of legislative passage cited.
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UPI
Carter
White House
Congress
Russell Long
Senate Finance Committee
Rep
al Ullman
Ore
House
Ways and Means Committee
Inferno at Vandenberg Fire Tears Through South Side
Santa Ana winds of 70 mph push a brush fire at Vandenberg Air Force Base beyond control. The blaze, starting near Tranquillon Peak, charred 700 acres by 12 15 p m and spread northward as crews battled embers and trapped vehicles. One with severe burns flown to Brooks Air Force Base.
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Santa Ana
Vandenberg Afb
Tranquillon Peak
Clarence McCauley
Civil Service Force
Brooks Air Force Base
San Antonio
Texas
Santa Anas
Joseph Turner
Brady
Dan Duffy
William Patterson
Patterson
Lompoc
Secret Cairo talks discuss Israeli Sinai withdrawal plan
Egyptian and Israeli military leaders met at Jianaklis air base south of Alexandria to outline withdrawal lines from the Sinai. Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Egyptian War Minister Gen. Mohammed Gamassy conferred ahead of the Sadat Begin summit and planned further talks during the Christmas summit period.
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Egypt
UPI
Israel
Sinai Desert
Ezer Weizman
Mohammed Gammassy
Alexandria
Anwar Sadat
Menehem Begin
Weizman
Jianaklis
Gamassy
Weather Looks Warmer With Increasing Cloudiness
Increasing cloudiness tonight with a chance of rain late tonight and Wednesday. Local easterly winds 15 to 30 mph, gusty south to southeasterly winds late tonight and Wednesday. Highs in the 60s both days, Lows 48 to 55. Rain chances 20 percent tonight and 40 percent Wednesday. Wednesday tides include high 5.6 feet at 7 10 a.m. and 3.6 feet at 8 33 p.m. Low tides 1.8 feet at 12 49 a.m. and minus 0.0 feet at 2 24 p.m.
American student Mayura Manakit attends school board meeting scene
Mayura Manakit a Bangkok born Lom poe High senior visits a boarding school thinking she would tour. Eva Boyd invites her to a school board meeting at the venue with a sense of formal purpose. A truck from Bodary's class blocks the police station after caroling. A teen on a skateboard is pulled by an Irish Setter while turning from Constellation Road to Vulcan Drive.
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American Field Service
Mayura Manakit
Bangkok
Lompoe High
Eva Boyd
Constellation Road
Vulcan Drive
County Water Agency workshop reviews costly future needs
County supervisors and a special advisory committee examined voluminous water reports showing rising costs from State Water and the conjunctive use plan. Engineer Manager Charles Lawrance outlined overdraft issues in the Santa Maria Valley and shared developments on regional groundwater and shared basin costs.
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County Water Agency
Water Agency
Charles Lawrance
Santa Ynez
Tom van Natta
Santa Barbara
Robert Hedlund
Lompoc
The
Lawrance
Santa Maria Valley
Gilliland
William Wallace
Fletcher
Cuyama Valley
Lawrence
Goleta Valley
Goleta County
County approves cloud seeding plan to fight drought
County supervisors vote 4 to 1 to declare an emergency and use contingency funds for a first weather modification project in years. They aim to contract with meteorological firms, seeking waivers from the State Department of Water Resources to begin by January and avoid a lengthy environmental impact report.
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County Water Agency
State Department of Water Resources
Weather Consultants
Goleta
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Weather Consultants, Inc
Santa Barbara
Weather Resources Development Corp
Palm Springs
County approves OB care contracts to aid MediCal patients
Hearings on obstetrical care plans were canceled as the Board of Supervisors approved contracts with four physicians to continue serving pregnant women on MediCal. Health Care Services Director Lawrence Hart announced the state provided 150000 for county obstetrical program development, with hearings previously scheduled in Santa Barbara Santa Maria and Lompoc.
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Santa Barbara
Santa
Lawrence Hart
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