Lompocan still fights Civil War battles in California
Pfc Rick Rea of Company A Eighth Alabama Infantry died last month in an artillery barrage. CWAA reenactors from Southern California stage Civil War battles at Fort Tejon Ventura and Wilmington, with Rea also serving as a city administrative assistant. The group emphasizes safe staged combat and period costumes, drawing 40 Lompoc Cabrillo players and maintaining a strong local hobby network.
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Johnny Reb
Billy Yank
California
Rick Rea
Company A
Eighth
Alabama Infantry
Rea
Lompoc
Civil War Association of America
CWAA
Artillery
Calvary
Fort Tejon State Park
Interstate 5
Gorman
Ventura
Matthew Brady
Wilmington
Wisteria
South
Ted
Eighth Alabama Infantry
Santa Barbara
Georgia
U.S
Ford strategists buoyed by Mondale pick in the South
Ford's Southern leaders say Carter's choice of Walter Mondale as running mate boosts Ford in Dixie. Harry Dent says Mondale will help in the South, signaling liberal leanings and a conservative backlash in the Democratic party. Dent sees Mississippi as pivotal toward a 1,130 delegate win.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Walter F. Mondale
Dixie
Harry Dent
Carter
Mondale
Minnesota
South
Dent
White House
Helmut Schmidt
Richard Nixon
Lee
Mississippi
Mass missing children spurs Chowchilla search
In Chowchilla California a bus carrying 26 school children and its driver vanished while returning from a summer program. Authorities including the FBI and California Highway Patrol searched for three vans and possible kidnappers as parents expressed fears of extremists. No ransom demands were received and the case drew White House and state involvement.
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Chowchilla
UPI
Fresno
California
FBI
Bill Parker
Barbara
Sacramento
Mervyn Dymally
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Highway Patrol
Brown
New York
California Highway Patrol
Madera
Los Angeles
James Christopher
Berenda Slough
Bamee
George Metzer
Paul C. Young
Special Highway Patrol
White House
Ron Nessen
Ford
Nessen
Carter and Mondale map strategy after nomination
Carter and Mondale discussed campaign strategy at a New York breakfast after Carter's nomination acceptance. Carter said he could win in Ford or Reagan states, while Mondale met with labor leaders to boost the ticket. The pair vowed a united Democratic front against a split GOP.
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New York
UPI
Jimmy Carter
Walter Mondale
White House
Carter
Democratic National Committee
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Kansas City
Mondale
California
Reagan
Michigan
New Hampshire
National Committee
Robert Strauss
The
United States Plans Lebanon Evacuation Move Tuesday
The United States will organize a new evacuation from Lebanon on Tuesday and urges all Americans to leave as embassy protections shrink to a bare minimum. About 350 staff remain of a peacetime 250, with further reductions planned as the seventh evacuation in under two months proceeds.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
United States
U.S
Washington
State Department
Assembly
Cast
Syria
Rriila
Yasser Arafat
Hafez Assad
Safar
Tripoli
Assad
Delega
County Agency urged to protest coastal aqueduct cost study
The County Water Agency was asked to protest a California DWR proposal to bill Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties for updating cost figures on the coastal aqueduct project phase 2. Lawrance cites longstanding practice of applying cost indices to avoid extra charges while counties debate future water supply.
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Vaughn Proctor
County Water Agency
State Department of Water Resources
Santa Barbara
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo County
Santa County
Charles H. Lawrance
Lawrance
DWR
Santa Barbara Water Agency
Water Agency
Fletcher
Santa Barbara County
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Lompocan
Frank Signorelli
Eee
Howard
Olga Brooks
T.J. Plaugher
Lompoc Shriners
Lompoc and
Cabrillo High
Charles Pickering
Laurel
Miss
Pickering
Gil Carmichael
Meridian
Hines County
William M. Taylor
Jacksonville
Florida Republican Committee
Taylor
Carter-Mondale
Paul Laxalt
Rnev
New Lebanon
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