California school finance bill faces Senate committee review
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s 4.6 billion school finance proposal goes to the Senate Education Committee for Wednesday consideration. Assemblyman Leroy Greene’s AB65 seeks a five year plan with first year spending up to 341 million. The Senate SB525 from Sen. Rodda emphasizes school reform and equality, while a conference committee will resolve the differences.
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UPI
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Senate Education Committee
Leroy Greene
Assembly
Senate
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Rodda
California Supreme Court
George Deukmejian
Long Beach
Judiciary Committee
Begin Set to Receive Mandate in Israel as Begin Forms Government
President Ephraim Katzir to grant Menahem Begin the mandate to form a new government after the May 17 election. Begin to meet Katzir before noon to begin coalition talks with Likud and the Democratic Movement for Change as decisions loom this week.
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Israel
UPI
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Likud
Menahem Begin
United States
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Begin
New Moderate
Yigael Yadin
Democratic Movement For Change
Moluccans Free Two Pregnant Women on Train
South Moluccan gunmen freed two pregnant hostages aboard a hijacked Dutch commuter train, while about 52 others remained seized along with four teachers at Bovensmilde. Health minister in exile visited for medical checks, but no breakthrough.
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Assen
Netherlands
UPI
Indonesia
Bovensmilde School
Nelleke Ellenbroek
Agatha Brouwer-Kort
Frans Tutuhatunewa
Sharks vanish from Texas beaches after weekend invasion
Thousands of swimmers faced danger as sharks swarmed Padre Island waters for three days. By Saturday most sharks left the area, with Park Ranger June Tate reporting only two in view the next morning. About 10 000 people visited the beaches over the weekend to watch the spectacle.
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Port Aransas. Tex
UPI
Texas Gulf Coast
Padre Island
Gulf of Mexico
June Tate
Ms. Tate
DDT Levels in Birds Rise After Forest Spraying
A UPI report notes a Fish and Wildlife Service study find DDT in juncos rose up to 200 times within a month after tussock moth spraying in Washington Oregon and Idaho with a yearlong residue still 30 times pre spray levels Forest grouse show 300 fold rise within 60 days and 100 fold after one year No direct bird deaths found but risk to birds of prey cited The spraying covered 400000 acres at the Forest Service request
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Portland. Ore
UPI
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Oregon
Idaho
Fish and Wildlife Service
Brezhnev Denounces Stalin Era Asks Guards Against Repeats
Brezhnev in a secret May speech denounced past Stalin era abuses while presenting a new draft constitution with guarantees against repression. He warned against Western liberal ideas and said rights must not threaten the Soviet social system.
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Moscow
UPI
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Communist Party Central Committee
Central Committee
Nikolai Podgorny
Soviet Union
West
Debate on Hatch Act reform stalls in Senate fight
House Democrats planned a new vote on a Hatch Act reform to let federal employees run in campaigns but faces a hostile Senate. The House also backs a worldwide military construction program and tax plans including standby gasoline tax.
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Washington
UPI
House
Carter
Senate
Ways and Means
Thunderstorms Spark Tornadoes Across Midwest and Heat Wave
Weather roundup reports five tornadoes in Wisconsin and two in Indiana with trees and power lines down and no injuries. Gusts up to 70 mph knocked out power in West Terre Haute and across Indiana's Brown Bartholomew and Jackson counties. Storms stretched from the Great Lakes to the Tennessee Valley with hail and high winds in Nebraska Kansas and northeastern Colorado. Record heat lingered with Springfield Illinois at 100 and Des Moines 101 as temperatures dropped from upper 90s to mid 40s across the region.
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