Federal probe targets Santa Barbara oil spill and floods
Seven members of the House subcommittee on harbors, rivers, pollution and flood control gather in Santa Barbara to hear testimony on oil pollution and recent flood damage. County officials and activists push for halting Channel waters drilling as new offshore leaks surface eight miles offshore.
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Santa Barbara
Union Oil Company
County Administration
House
Public Works Committee
George H. Clyde
Francis H. Beattie
Clyde
Sacramento
Senate Natural Resources Committee
Senate Governmental Efficiency Committee
Maine
Edmund S. Muskie
Fragile peace on campuses after campus violence
Tear gas cleared from Duke University and the University of Wisconsin as National Guardsmen remained alert for further trouble. At Duke riot police used clubs and tear gas, 18 people were injured during a nine hour occupation, while at Madison guarding forces faced clashes on a day of widespread student protests.
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United Press International
Duke University
University of Wisconsin
University of Chicago
Madison
Duke
Durham
N.C
Southern University
University of California
Berkeley
Roosevelt University
Chicago
Pennsylvania State University
Yippie Jerry Rubin
City College of New York
Gothic
Quad
W.W. Pleasant
Heaviest bombing hits Red troop concentration
U S B52s dropped 2.5 million pounds of bombs on positions of about 40 000 Communist troops threatening Saigon in the heaviest bombing of 1969. The raids struck 14 guerrilla strongholds near the capital as a cease fire during Tet neared.
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Red Troop Concentration
Jack Walsh
Saigon
UPI
Weather Outlook With Rain Tonight Then Showers Saturday
Regional forecast cloudy with rain starting tonight and heavy rain possible. Showers expected Saturday morning with highs in the mid fifties. Southeast winds 12 to 25 mph. Tide data lists high tides at 6.7 feet 8:38 a.m. and 4.5 feet 10:08 p.m. low tides at 1.6 feet 2:32 a.m. and minus 1.7 feet 3:44 p.m.
Glimpses of Children Fly Kite Amid Gentle Breeze
Junior Alpha Club members work with glue and paper in a project to send crossword puzzles to servicemen overseas. Children struggle to launch a fierce looking kite in a slow wind as a light daily feature.
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Alpha Club
Lompoc
West Berlin faces new East West crisis as Moscow protests election
West Berlin tensions rise after Moscow demands cancellation of West Germany's presidential election in the city. Bonn and Paris deny the demand while NATO allies warn that Soviet maneuvers could disrupt land and air routes to Berlin, signaling a possible broader crisis.
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Berlin
UPI
Soviet Union
West Germany
West Berlin
Harold Wilson
Nixon
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
America
Britain
France
Moscow
West
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Bonn
Guenter Diehl
Semyon Tsarapkin
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Federal Assembly
Diehl
East Germany
Joseph W. Grigg
London
Defense outlines Sirhan insanity claim in Kennedy shooting
Los Angeles defense lawyer Emile Zola Berman framed Sirhan B. Sirhan as intoxicated and in a trance with no voluntary control when he fatally shot Robert F. Kennedy. He described Sirhan’s Palestinian experiences and mental illness, promising psychiatric tests to prove the act was impulsive and not premeditated.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
Emile Zola Berman
California
Berman
Sirhan
Palestine
Senator Kennedy
Montreal Stock Exchange Mines Reopen After Bomb Blast
The Montreal stock exchange reopened with chalkboards replacing electronics after a dynamite bomb injures 27. President Charles B Neapole ordered trading resumed less than 20 hours after the blast that shook the building, with about 400 people nearby.
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Montreal
UPI
Charles B. Neapole
Canada
U.S. tuna boat seized in Peru incident
Congress members report an American tuna fishing boat was fired on and damaged in international waters off the Peruvian coast. The White House said it would review the incident with utmost concern as President Nixon considers the report in a series of tuna fleet clashes off Peru.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
White House
Ronald Ziegler
Nixon
U.S
Peru
Lompoc Sewer Plant Returns to Partial Operation After Flood
Lompoc city’s sewer facility resumes partial operation after flooding on January 25. Most functions are online except sludge beds, which remain out of service while repairs continue. Damage is estimated at $32,000 plus further costs for beds and roads, with federal and state relief avenues under review.
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Lompoc
Gene Wahlers
Santa Ynez
Cantlay
Wahlers
Central Avenue
V Street
Sacramento
Karachi riot as thousands protest Ayub Khan rules amid general strike
Thousands march in Karachi wearing black armbands in a wild anti-government outbreak led by children. Fires erupt in Lasbella and Lalakhet as mobs clash with police, with casualties reported and a mass strike gripping Pakistan.
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Pakistan
Lemmy Pinna
Karachi
UPI
Mohammed Ayub Khan
Lasbella
Ayub Kutta
Ayub
Ayub Khan
Rawalpindi
Sardar
Pathans
Slukhet
Ali Kausar
League
North Vietnam blocks Laos and Cambodia uprisings talks
Western diplomatic sources report North Vietnam refused to discuss the Red uprisings in Laos and Cambodia at the Paris peace talks, deepening the four week deadlock. Hanoi argues the uprisings are separate and must be addressed independently, while U.S. and South Vietnamese leaders seek ways to move forward.
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George Libera
Paris
UPI
North Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Xuan Thuy
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
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S. C St
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Lompoc Hospital
Locust Avenue
E Street
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George Allen Howe
Rumford
Lompoc-Casmalia
California Highway Patrol
Howe
Hue
da Nang
Quang Tri
United Fund
Karl Braun
Cy Cochran
San Bernadino United Community Services
Cochran
Valley Club
Lockheed
Reagan
Lalakhet
Pixies
By Wohl
Uo Pe Ona
N.viets
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