Oil spill shuts Santa Barbara beaches drains into harbor
A massive oil slick fouls 12 miles of coastline from an offshore leak 12 miles offshore. Officials warn two weeks more to seal the well while inmates and workers scrub the tarry shoreline with straw and oil mud fails. Birds die and harbor evacuations trigger anger among locals.
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Jerry Henry
Santa Barbara
Calif
UPI
Oil Company
Pacific
Union Co
California
Fish and Game
Department
Santa Barbara Harbor
Gerald Firestone
Coast Guard
Nixon to visit European capitals to bolster NATO ties
President Nixon announced a Feb 23 trip to Brussels London Bonn West Berlin Rome and Paris to meet allied leaders and discuss a future summit with the Soviet Union He will work with the Paris peace talks and meet Pope Paul VI while pressing nuclear nonproliferation and European unity to avert a broader conflict
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Merriman Smith
UPI
White House
Washington
Nixon
NATO
Brussels
London
Bonn
West Berlin
Rome
Paris
U.S
Paul VI
United States
Senate
France
West Germany
Middle East
Nicky Hilton Jr dies of heart attack in Los Angeles
Conrad N. Hilton Jr. 42, son of hotel magnate Conrad Hilton Sr., was found dead from a heart attack at his Holmby Hills home after recent hospitalization. He had married Elizabeth Taylor briefly and later Patricia McClintock with two sons. Weather outlook notes showers and thunderstorms with mild temperatures.
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West Los Angeles
UPI
Conrad N
Nicky’’ Hilton Jr
Elizabeth Taylor
Hilton
Conrad Hilton Sr
Holmby Hills
Miss Taylor
Hollywood
Patricia McClintock
McClintock Oil
Conrad II
Hilton III
Michael Otis Hilton
County weighs legal action to halt Santa Barbara drilling
County officials discussed possible federal court action to stop continued oil drilling in the fault ridden Santa Barbara Channel amid pollution disaster. A injunction in Los Angeles could be sought. Deputy County Counsel Dana Smith to study all remedies for the full Board of Supervisors next meeting.
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Santa Barbara Channel
Channel Islands
Board of Supervisors
R. D. Johnson
David K. Bickmore
Los Angeles
Dana Smith
Smith
Valley Flood Fears Linger As River Brims Under Storms
Heavy rains and high winds buffeted the coast as the Santa Ynez River rose with inflows near 11,666 cfs at Lake Cachuma. Officials reported no immediate threat but monitored hourly while crews paused disaster relief work and awaited further storms.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc Valley
Santa Ynez
Lake Cachuma
U.S
Federal Correctional Institution
Floradale Avenue
Surf Bridge
Vandenberg
Gibraltar Dam
Cachuma
C.f.s
James Stubbner
Lompoc
Ray Robertson
West Valley
Wahlers
City Hall
Don Boyd
Boyd
Alisal
Cachuma Dam
Francis H. Beattie
Garrison argues Kennedy murder tied to conspiracy
District Attorney Jim Garrison tells an all male jury in the Clay Shaw trial that Kennedy was killed in a conspiracy with multiple shooters. He says Oswald helped move the rifle and that Shaw discussed the plot with David Ferrie, suggesting the gunman might be flown to safety.
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New Orleans
UPI
Jim Garrison
Clay L. Shaw
John F. Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy
Garrison
Dealey Plaza
Dallas
Oswald
School Book Depository
Elm Street
Warren Commission
Louisiana
Shaw
David W. Ferrie
Ferrie
Clay Shaw
Reagan Declares Emergency at Berkeley Campus
Gov Ronald Reagan proclaimed a state of extreme emergency at the University of California Berkeley as a student strike reaches its 15th day. He authorized highway patrols to quell disturbances and said the measure would stay in effect as long as needed with about 800 patrolmen available in the Bay Area.
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Donald B. Thackrey
Berkeley
UPI
Ronald Reagan
University of California
Reagan
Highway Patrol
Bay Area
Viet Cong demands Thieu ouster to restart talks
Viet Cong delegate Tran Buu Kiem opened the third weekly session of Vietnam peace talks warning there can be no progress while South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu remains in power. He called Thieu’s regime a puppet government and urged immediate ouster to regain sovereignty.
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George Libera Paris
UPI
Viet Cong
Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Tran Buu Kiem
U.S
Thieu
Kiem
Saigon
South Vietnam
United States
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