California enacts third year with no budget in sight
Sacramento faced a fiscal year start without a formal budget as Governor Reagan urged quick legislative action. State officials warned about possible legal challenges to spending without approved funding while urging civil servants and vendors to continue operations during the interim.
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UPI
California
Ronald Reagan
Houston I. Flournoy
Flournoy
Reagan
Western labor strikes erupt over wages across copper and transport
Thousands of copper miners longshoremen and bus drivers walked off jobs in the western United States as wage talks failed. Unions for 36 000 copper workers across eight firms led the action with key firms Kennecott Anaconda Phelps Dodge and American Smelting and Refining affected. ILWU dock workers in California Washington and Oregon also walked out, with talks to resume soon. A separate construction dispute and bus drivers in the Bay Area and airport routes added to widespread disruption.
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United States
Salt Lake City
Kennecott Copper
Anaconda
Phelps Dodge
American
Utah
Montana
Arizona
International Longshoremens and Warehousemen’s Union
ILWU
California
Washington
Oregon
Pacific Maritime Association
Associated General Contractors of California, Inc
San Francisco
Airporter, Inc
Ohio ratifies 26th amendment expanding voting age
Eighteen year olds win the right to vote in all elections as Ohio becomes the 38th state to ratify the 26th amendment. The action follows Congress proposing the measure on March 23 and signals rapid passage for the change. President Nixon praised the move and urged new voters to participate.
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Ohio
UPI
Congress
Nixon
Supreme Court
Heyns blasts Reagan at Berkeley exit
Chancellor Roger W. Heyns ends five-year tenure at the University of California, Berkeley, asserting Gov Ronald Reagan fostered negative attitudes toward higher education. Heyns resigns to return to the University of Michigan as a professor. Albert K. Bowker of CUNY will replace him in August with Robert E. Connick as interim administrator.
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Heyns
University of Michigan
Reagan
Berkeley
Ann Arbor
Albert K. Bowker
City University of New York
Robert E. Connick
Supreme Court Allows Publication of Pentagon Vietnam Study
The court ruled 6 to 3 that newspapers may publish the top secret Pentagon Vietnam study despite possible harm. Justices said prior restraint violated first amendment free press, with Nixon administration not indicating further action. Reactions split along ideological lines.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Pentagon
Vietnam
Republic
Times-Post
Nixon
John N. Mitchell
Warren E. Burger
Harry A. Blackmun
John M Harlan
Censure talk swirls over Gravel disclosures in Senate
UPI reports Democrats back Gravel saying he did not violate Senate rules though Republicans urge censure for disclosing Pentagon pagers during a rump Senate session. Senator Goldwater claims he violated the law. Gravel, tired and emotional, skipped the chamber after stalling a draft extension.
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Washington
UPI
Mike Gravel
Gravel
Senate Public Works
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Robert P. Griffin
Michigan
Senate
Barry M. Goldwater
R-Ariz
Alaska
Supreme Court
Thunderstorms herald cooler air across drought hit region
Nationwide storms broke the heat spell with cooler air spreading from the central Rockies to the East Coast. Amarillo saw over an inch of rain while New Mexico drought persisted. Texas and Arizona remained dry. NYSEG crews restored power to Hamburg and Orchard Park after outages affecting about 68 000 residents.
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Rockies
Amarillo
Tex
New Mexico
Buffalo
Hamburg
Orchard Park
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