Fire sweeps 100 acres near Mission Hills threatening homes
County fire crews fought a 100 acre brush fire south of Mission Hills as high winds drove flames toward five ranger homes. About 18 residents evacuated while borate bombers dropped 3,700 gallons of suppressant. Ranger Jack Mason noted the damage but predicted recovery.
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la Purisima Mission
Mesa
Mission Hills
Lompoc
Fletcher Commons
Jack Mason
VAFB airman killed in accident
Airman Weylin Keith Howell 19 of Vandenberg Air Force Base died in a head on crash on Highway 166 east of Santa Maria. Buellton’s Gunnar Johansen 36 sustained major injuries and was taken to Marian Hospital. Two other drivers escaped injury.
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Weylin Keith Howell
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Buellton
Highway 166
Highway 101
Howell
Gunnar
Knud Johansen
Marian Hospital
Santa Maria
California Highway Patrol
Johansen
Howell- Johansen
Mary Calico Jones
Anthony Way
Hapgood Road
Vandenberg Air Force Base Hospital
U.S. Planes Strike Antiaircraft Bases South of DMZ
American aircraft bombed North Vietnamese antiaircraft batteries south of the DMZ destroying four guns and damaging three others. B52 raids hit Dong Ha slopes near Fire Base Fuller and targets near Khe Sanh while communists attack Saigon outskirts. U.S. troop levels drop to 236,400 as withdrawals press toward December goals.
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South Vietnam
Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Nixon
Quang Ngai Province
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Laos
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Protestant Orange Day parade continues after Belfast blasts
Nearly 50,000 Protestant men and boys in bowler hats marched six miles through central Belfast past blast wreckage as seven early bombs damaged shops and homes. Police held 11,000 troops to curb tension while crowds cheered despite violence and rumors of IRA involvement.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Orange Order
Rebels to face firing squad after failed coup in Morocco
In Rabat the coup against King Hassan II failed. Reports say 158 rebels were killed and 700 captured with 28 others dead at a party event. Hassan said interview chances for seized officers may end as executions proceed. The Belgian ambassador Marcel Dupret was among the dead.
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Morocco
UPI
Hassan II
Hassan
Shiraz Palace
Marcel Dupret
Supreme Court
Ahmend Bahnini
Economy Described as Lousy and Sick by Meany and Albert
AFL CIO President George Meany and House Speaker Carl Albert condemned Nixon policies at a two day AFL CIO conference on jobs. Meany blasted Connally claiming limited economic understanding and urged wage price controls if fair. Albert warned five and a half million unemployed with no near term improvement and called for public service job programs.
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UPI
AFL Cio
George Meany
House
Carl Albert
Nixon
Labor Organization
Meany
Treasury
John B. Connally
Connally
Texas
Albert
Afl-Cio
Mr. Nixon
State workers may strike if pay boosts blocked
The California State Employes Association with 114000 members will seek a strike vote if the legislature does not override Gov. Reagan’s veto of 10 percent UC and state college faculty raises and five percent for other state workers. The board, voting largely in favor, will act after veto session or pending tax or special bills.
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Sacramento
UPI
California State Employes Association
CSEA
Ronald Reagan
University of California and
State College
Reagan
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Phnom Penh
Hue
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Finaghey Field
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James II
Battle of the Boyne
IRA
Irish Republican Army
Loren Smith
Smith
Edward Ward
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