Smuggling trio linked by Santa Barbara ties arrested in London
An 18 year old American woman Allison Thompson and a Moroccan Abelkhir El Hakaoui plus Pakistani Athar Naseem, all locals, were detained by Scotland Yard in a London arms case. Thompson allegedly hid five pistols and 150 rounds on a Los Angeles to London flight. The trio knew each other through Santa Barbara City College and UCSB.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
UPI
London
Scotland Yard
Allison Thompson
Abelkhir El-Hakaoui
Athar Naseem
FBI
Miss Thompson
Los Angeles
Spacecraft Tracking at Vandenberg Station
Lt. Col. Alex A. Pestrichella notes there are about 50 actual spacecraft among hundreds of satellites. The Vandenberg SCF station, with 23 officers, 239 enlisted, and 40 contractors, tracks roughly 93,000 satellite orbits yearly and supports about 15 launches, base rehearsals, and countdowns. A 10 ton dish, the 46, can rotate rapidly to receive telemetry and send commands during passes lasting minutes to hours. The Vela Satellite, at over 70 000 miles altitude, transmits solar flare data to earth and relays it through Sunnyvale for command actions.
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Alex A. Pestrichella
SCF
Vandenberg
Vela
Earth
Sunnyvale
California lawmakers bought frames with taxpayer money
California taxpayers spent 12035 dollars last year on picture frames for 80 assemblymen, averaging 150 per member. Records show little purchasing oversight and half the total bought by a dozen members, led by Lawrence Kapiloff with 88 frames costing 663. The Senate spent 693 dollars for five months.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Assembly Rules Committee
Assemblymen
Capitol
Senate Rules Committee
Assembly
Lawrence Kapiloff
D-San Diego
Oil crisis threatens Nixon round of trade talks
Brussels UPI report cites U.S. and European sources warning the oil crisis jeopardizes the Nixon round negotiations on liberalizing world trade. Slow U.S. bill passage and looming recession risk push for protectionism, while price hikes worsen balance of payments deficits for Europe and other nations.
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Brussels
UPI
U.S
Common Market
Washington
Congress
Skylab mission to finish 84 days despite gyro hiccups
Skylab will not shorten the 84 day flight of the final crew as gyro malfunctions persist. Astronauts Gerald Carr Edward Gibson and William Pogue report only minor effects from the hiccups while officials seek lubrication fixes and assess impact on the February 8 completion date.
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Houston
UPI
Gerald P. Carr
Edward G Gibson
William R. Pogue
Space Lab
Bob Pace
Marshall Space Flight Center
Neil Hutchinson
Teen-ager Isaacs sentenced to death in Georgia farm killings
Carl Isaacs, 19, was convicted of six murders by eyewitness testimony from his younger brother and sentenced to die in the electric chair. Prosecutor Peter Zack Geer urged the jury to show Seminole County’s peaceable stance.
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Donalsonville
UPI
Carl Isaacs
South Georgia
Maryland
Georgia
Seminole County
Saxbe says oil firms should be investigated for fuel shortage
Attorney General designate William B. Saxbe told UPI the Justice Department should probe whether major oil companies deliberately caused the fuel shortage. He called Watergate tapes a fishing expedition and pledged vigorous antitrust enforcement while promising to honor Jaworski’s independence. He stated he has no evidence of oil-company wrongdoing but noted public suspicion.
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UPI
William B. Saxbe
Justice Department
Saxbe
Senate Watergate Committee
White House
Ohio
Nixon
Civil
Tigats Enforcement
Watergate
Leon Jaworski
Jaworski
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Skylab
Peter Zack Geer
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Rolls-Royce
Kathleen Scholes
English Channel
Grange-over-Sands
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