County firemen join broad county employee strike
Firemen and about 800 SEIU workers walk out in defiance of a court order. They rejected a 3 to 4 percent wage offer and cite inadequate grievances, caseload standards, bilingual and part time positions, plus promotional limits. Mutual aid shifts and potential contempt charges loom as the Board weighs action.
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Dick Praul
Afl-Cio Service
Lompoc
Superior Court
John T. Rickard
Rickard
Roders
Social Workers Union
SEIU
Rockefeller Commission Clears CIA Of Major Illegal Spying
Vice President Rockefeller says CIA violated some laws but shows no evidence of massive domestic spying. Report to Ford cites near unanimous findings. details include limited illegal activities, with prosecutions left to the Justice Department. Also notes past CIA links to JFK era plots and calls for tighter internal controls. Tokyo reports death of former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato at 74 after a stroke and illness.
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Washington
UPI
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Central Intelligence Agency
Rockefeller Commission
CIA
Commission
Ford
Rockefeller
Justice Department
California
Ronald Reagan
CBS
Reagan
Nelson Rockefeller
Lompoc City Council Opens Budget Talks and Hearings
Lompoc City Council plans 6 p.m. budget sessions in the school admin board room to discuss a 7.181 million annual budget, with the sixth federal revenue sharing entitlement of 214 404 dollars proposed entirely for fire and police departments. A second hearing considers declaring a North First Street lot a public nuisance tied to an auto repair business and screening costs. Additional items include joining a county rape crisis program, Avalon Street annexation, a June 8 Walnut Avenue street closure for Flower Festival Queen candidates, and a second reading for zoning conformity with the general plan.
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Lompoc
Gene Wahlers
Wahlers
North First St
al Autry
Autry
North First Street
Avalon Street
Walnut Avenue
H and I
Governors split by region on death penalty poll
United Press International reports 28 governors favor capital punishment, 17 oppose, and five undecided. In the South nearly all support it, led by Tennessee's Ray Blanton who remains opposed. Indiana's Gov. Otis Bowen defends it amid heinous crime cases.
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United Press International
U.S
Northeast
West
Midwest
Ray Blanton
Tennessee
Blanton
Gov
Otis Bowen
Indiana
Bowen
Charles Manson
California
Richard Kneip
South Dakota
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IAFF
Afl-Cio
Buellton
Richard Minor
Santa Ynez
Santa Maria
Los Alamos
Minor
Lompoc County
Leonard Roders
Board of Supervisors
Bruce Dodds
FEC
Federal Electric Corporation
Air Force Space and Missile Test Center
Vandenberg Afb
Paramus
New Jersey
U.S. Air Force Unmanned Research and Development
Cape Canaveral
Vandenberg
Joe Stanek
Dennis Higgins
Sheriff's Department
Elks Rodeo
Sheriff's Deputies
UCSB
W. Atlee Burpee Seed Company
Ed Marquart
The
John Kennedy
Fidel Castro
Japan
Sato
Tokyo
Eisaku Sato
Shinkiraku Geisha
California Highway Patrol
Delano Hayden
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Lompoc-Casmalia Road
Constellation Road
Henry Staub
Draco Ave
Lompoc Elks
Becky Toomey
Joseph E. Toomey
Cambridge
Becky
Lompoc Senior High School
Forensics and
Thespians
Boise, Idaho
School Administration Board Room
North A St
Lefkowitz
Mansfield
Senate
Mike Mansfield
United States
South Korea
Europe
John C. Stennis
Senate Armed Services Committee
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