Laird splits with White House over Lockheed loan bill
Defense Secretary Laird opposes a broad 2 billion dollar government loan guarantee for multiple troubled firms, backing only a 250 million loan to save Lockheed. President Nixon supports the broader package as Senate schedules action amid internal admin tensions and comments from Packard.
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Washington
UPI
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
White House
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Laird
Congress
Lockheed
Nixon
Senate
David M. Packard
Congressional Committees
Packard
Hijacker killed by FBI agent on New York runway
About 20 minutes from LaGuardia on the way to Chicago TWA Flight 335 turned back after a hijacker threatened the plane. Richard Obergfell, 26, was shot by FBI agent Kenneth Levin near Kennedy Airport and died at a hospital. He had been a former United Airlines mechanic linked to an Italy visit.
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UPI
la Guardia
Chicago
TWA
Richard Obergfell
Kennedy Airport
FBI
Obergfell
Milan
Italy
Idie Maris Concepcion
Burbank
Calif
Miss Concepcion
Albert R. Hawes
Hopatcong
N.J
LaGuardia
Hawes
Oberg
Frank Weaver
Kennedy
Jack Murnik
Kenneth W. Levin
Obergtell
Levin
United Air Lines
Newark
UAL
United States
John Celantano
Clifton
Celantano
Passaic
Alitalia
Apollo 15 fueling begins for moon launch
Preparations accelerate at Cape Kennedy as engineers pump liquid oxygen and hydrogen into the Apollo 15 command ship Endeavour. Astronauts Scott Worden and Irwin have lighter schedules and may tennis and fly in T38 jets. Weather looks favorable for a 9 34 a m EDT liftoff and over a million spectators are expected along viewing routes. The mission aims for a 12 day flight ending with a Pacific splashdown on Aug 7.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
David R. Scott
Alfred M. Worden
James B. Irwin
Space Agency
Mary Ellen Irwin
Ann Scott
Endeavour
Pacific Ocean
Okinawa
Pearl Harbor
Vanguard
Austin
Atlantic
Glimpses of Shaving Foam Pies at Boys Club Benefit Game
Lompoc sending Babe Ruth league players to state playoff action with Wasco and Hollister as venues. Foam pies created playful chaos during the charity softball event last night.
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Lompoc
Wasco
Hollister
Alcatraz Walls Crashing Down as Island Prisons Are Demolished
The UPI report notes nine abandoned buildings on Alcatraz Island are being razed by a wrecker. Only the main cell block and a 100 year old guard dormitory will remain, with federal authorities planning park status for the site.
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San Francisco
UPI
Alcatraz Island
U.S
Washington, D.C
Alcatraz
Robert F. Kennedy
Youth Services Officer launches city program in Lompoc
Detective Bud Trimble becomes Youth Services Officer to bridge communications between police and youths. The program begins fall at the elementary level with age appropriate lessons on safety, conduct, and later drug abuse and probation topics. Financing comes from federal funds via the California Council for Criminal Justice.
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Lompoc
Bud Trimble
Cabrillo
Trimble
California Council For Criminal Justice
CCCI
Major arms cache found near Fire Base Fuller DMZ region
South Vietnamese command reports discovery of a large arms cache 12 miles from Fire Base Fuller near the DMZ. Items include 100 mortar rounds 150 rockets 100 grenades and hundreds of anti aircraft rounds. U S B52s pounded the area with 180 tons of bombs as grounds remain tense around the mountaintop outpost.
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Saigon
Fuller
Dmz
Rail strike widens as Southern Pacific and N W face spread
Negotiators at the Labor Department fail to halt an eight day rail strike from spreading to the Southern Pacific and Norfolk and Western. UTU plans to extend action to six more lines next Friday unless work rules disputes are resolved. Amtrak prepares for possible impact as weather winds down with coastal tides and inland cooling forecast through Sunday.
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UPI
Southern Pacific
Norfolk & Western
W.J. Usery Jr
Labor Department
United Transportation Union
Southern
Union Pacific
N&w
UTU
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
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Walter F. Mondale
D-Minn
William Proxmire
D-Wis
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R-Tex
Tower
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Lompoc Wye
Daniel Stearns
Los Angeles
California Highway Patrol
Stearns
al Capone
Clarence Machine Gun’ Kelly
Alvin Karpis
Morton Sobell
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
General Services Administration
Quang Tri River
Highway 9
Quang Tri
Passenger Corporation
J.D. Hodgson
Amtrak
The
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