Local power system faces price squeeze and rate lag
City editor notes the Northern California Power Agency cities depend on PG&E for bulk power and fear wholesale rate hikes and fuel cost adjustments will end local power profitability. The piece explains how state and federal rate gaps, Arab oil embargo effects, and potential tax or service cuts threaten Lompoc and allied munis as they watch for possible PG&E takeovers.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Co
Lompoc
Pg&e
Steve LA Rue
Northern California Power Agency
NCPA
Lodi
Healdsburg
Alameda
Ukiah
Santa Clara
Biggs
Gridley
Palo Alto
Redding
Roseville
Munis
Acres
Cosmonauts Set for Earth Return From Salyut 4
Tass reported a search and recovery rep arrived at the mission center as Soyuz 18 prepares to land. Pyotr Klimuk and Vitaly Sevastiyanov have spent 60 days aboard Salyut 4 after launching May 24 and docking May 26. Western experts anticipate an imminent end to the mission.
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Moscow
UPI
Tass
Salyut Control Center
Space
Salyut 4
Sadat Extends Sinai Peacekeeping Mandate Deadline
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat agrees to Security Council request to renew the U N peacekeeping mandate in the Sinai. The note was handed to Security Council President Eugenio Plaja in New York. Remaining questions focus on conditions and timing as talks with Israel continue.
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United Press International
United Nations
New York
Anwar Sadat
Security Council
Egypt
U.N
Sinai Desert
Eugenio Plaja
Italy
Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid
Sadat
Meguid
Yigal Allon
Knesset
Jerusalem
Allen
Allon
Cairo
Sinai
Arab Socialist Union
National Security Council
Washington
Ford says poll shows he could beat Kennedy
President Ford said polls indicate he could defeat Senator Edward Kennedy in a general election. He avoided discussing Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick incident and likened the race to a broad policy interview on energy and foreign affairs.
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Ford
Kennedy
Washington
UPI
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Chappaquiddick
William F. Anderson
Chicago
Tribune Press Service
George F. Wills
Godfrey Sperling
Christian Science Monitor
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Henry M. Jackson
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Massachusetts
Showdown nears on Turkish arms shipment
Washington sources report Ford faces a House clash over partially lifting the embargo on weapons to Turkey. Rep. Zablocki calls it an uphill fight while Rep. Rosenthal cautions the vote will be very close as the Rules Committee moves a bill to permit a 185 million weapons sale.
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Washington
UPI
Ford Administration
Congress
Turkey
Clement Zablocki
D-Wis
Memer
House International Relations Committee
House
Ford
Benjamin Rosenthal
D-N.y
Cyprus
U.S
Astronauts preview shuttle era as Apollo ends
Astronauts Stafford Brand and Slayton spoke at a Johnson Space Center news conference about the space shuttle’s promise to extend space utility. They described the current Apollo mission as nostalgic and predicted shuttle flights will become routine within 4 to 5 years.
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Houston
APS
Apollo
Thomas Stafford
Vance Brand
Donald ‘‘Deke
Slayton
Johnson Space Center
Stafford
Moon
Cape Canaveral
Sniper Reports Spur New Leads Near Harris Grade
Harris Summit sniper attack prompts Mission Hills youths to report a separate Sunday night shooting near the PG and E station at Rucker Road and Calle Lindero. Deputies say no injuries occurred in either incident. witnesses recall a chopper style motorcycle but could not obtain a license.
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Mission Hills
Sheriff's
Harris Grade
Edward W. Pecyna
Dona
Jeffery David Pecyna
Douglas James Pecyna
PG & E
Rucker Road
Calle Lindero
Leslie Jamison
Roy Long
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