Nixon Pompidou summit yields broad cooperation pledge
Nixon returned to Washington after a seven hour Reykjavik meeting with Georges Pompidou. Kissinger said the talks achieved all goals with Pompidou agreeing to join a July deputy Foreign Minister conference to reshape the Atlantic alliance and to meet again in Paris in late October during Nixon's European tour. No joint communique was issued and no major decisions were disclosed.
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UPI
Nixon
Georges Pompidou
Reykjavik
Iceland
Camp David
Pompidou
Atlantic Alliance
United States
NATO
Paris
Keflavik Air Base
Spirit
Air Force
White House
Ronald Ziegler
Risky Skylab repair plan targets spacewalk
NASA moved to approve a bold spacewalk to free a jammed solar generator on Skylab and to launch a second crew 12 days early, potentially extending the station stay of Pete Conrad Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz as doctors assess crew health.
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Houston
UPI
NASA
Orbiting Space Station
Space Agency
Rocco Petrone
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Ala
Charles
Pete Conrad
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Senate Budget Vote Sealed in Private Session in California
The Senate Finance Committee approved a 9.2 billion dollar budget behind closed doors, about 80 million less than Reagan's request. Chairman Randolph Collier called the session a mistake and promised a public vote Monday, while the full Senate prepares a conference committee to reconcile with the Assembly's 9.4 billion plan.
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Sacramento
UPI
Senate Finance Committee
Ronald Reagan
Collier
Reagan
Assembly
Senate
Finance Committee
Fred W. Marler Jr
Redding
Lompoc Council eyed on mobile home space plan
Mobile homeowners from Mountain View Trailer Park urge action as the City Council weighs a plan to add up to 300 new trailer spaces across three annexed sites. Opponents cite growth and environmental questions as planning officials defer decisions pending studies.
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Lompoc
Mountain View
Mountain View Group
Santa Barbara
ACLU
William Farber
Robert Summers
Planning Commission
Lompoc Plans 10 Percent Electric Rate Increase
Lompoc City Council to vote on a 10 percent electric rate hike to offset PG and E increases and fund future expansion. The measure passed 3 to 1 with Sol Lefkowitz opposed and would take effect in July. The council also weighs dropping Social Security for city employees and settling a water meter anti trust suit with potential refunds.
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Lompoc
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Sol Lefkowitz
PG and E
State of
California
James Longtin
Longtin
Hijacking lurches on with no end in sight
A Colombian airliner hijacked with 14 hostages landed briefly in Resistencia Argentina after a 57 hour chase across Latin America. Two masked men demanded foreign ministry authorization to land at Ezeiza while nine passengers escaped at Mendoza leaving eight passengers and six crew aboard. The hijackers sought oil as they wandered between countries instead of proceeding to Buenos Aires.
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Resistencia
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Mendoza
Foreign Ministry
Ezeiza International
Resisters Seeking Normal Lives After Prison
Five Vietnam era draft resisters in the Lompoc federal prison honor camp describe their orderly routines near release and their belief that fewer than half of resisters were jailed. They cite perceived arbitrariness in local draft boards and uneven law enforcement as factors shaping their imprisonment and futures.
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Steve LA Rue
Lompoc
Grey Main
Vietnam
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Francis Beattie
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