Wholesale prices fall 0.5 percent in February
UPI reports February wholesale prices dropped 0.5 percent, the steepest monthly decline in a year, with food prices still retreating and industrial goods edging up 0.3 percent. The index stood at 179.4, about 47 percent higher than a year earlier, while fuel and power costs eased due to lower crude prices.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Ford
Energy Policy and Conservation Act
Afl-Cio
Labor Coalition
Two crash victims still hospitalized
Two persons remained hospitalized today with injuries from a two car head on collision Tuesday on Highway 1 south of Lompoc. Charles Johnson Jr a Lompoc fire captain 38 in fair condition in Santa Maria ICU. Carlotta Balcena 28 in good condition in Lompoc with bruises and lacerations. Five others from Los Angeles County were injured. four released today and one due to be released. The crash occurred at Salsipuedes Bridge with the second car bursting into flame and occupants ejected. The Sheriff's Lompoc Search and Rescue searched the nearby creek area. Cause under investigation.
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Lompoc
Charles Johnson, Jr
South B St
Marian Hospital
Santa Maria
Johnson
Carlotta Marie Balcena
North FE St
Los Angeles County
Salsipuedes Bridge
Sheriff
Salsipuedes Creek
Santa Ynez pilot lands on Highway 101 near El Capitan
Veteran oil field pilot Robert Doherty escaped injury after a single engine Cessna 150 ran out of fuel and touched down on Highway 101 at El Capitan Beach. FAA cleared the aircraft four hours later. Doherty was en route from Long Beach to Santa Ynez Valley Airport and radioed engine trouble before the landing.
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Robert Doherty
el Capitan Beach
Doherty
FAA
van Nuys
Tiana Dr
Long Beach
Santa Ynez Valley
Santa Paula
Sante Ynez Valley
Court upholds shift on mall picketing ruling
The Supreme Court, increasingly conservative, repudiates a 1960s ruling that privately owned malls are open public centers for picketing. It says the 1972 decision, made without awareness of its impact, also reversed. Picketing beyond labor-law exceptions is now illegal at shopping center sites.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Earl Warren
Kissinger-Nixon China Trip Report Sparks Ford Rift
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called Richard Nixon to relay a China trip report without Ford’s prior knowledge. President Ford learned of it two days later and said he did not press the matter, while Kissinger claimed no White House orders were given. Scowcroft and others saw little urgency in the report.
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Washington
UPI
Henry Kissinger
Richard M. Nixon
China
White House
Ford
Ron Nessen
Nixon
Peking
Nessen
Kissinger
Brent Scowcroft
Scowcroft
Kis- Singer
Palm Springs
Calif
State Department
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Bayh suspends active presidential bid amid campaign losses
Bayh announces suspension of his Democratic presidential campaign after defeats in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Udall says Bayh’s exit benefits him and plans to rally labor support, while Shriver weighs Illinois run and others remain in the race. Bayh will still take federal funds to pay debts.
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United Press International
Birch Bayh
Sargent Shriver
Morris Udall
Arizona
Bayh
D-Indy
New York
Shriver
New England
Chicago
Illinois
Washington
Udall
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Alabama
George Wallace
Oklahoma
Fred Harris
Ellen McCormack
Jackson
Carter
Mansfield to quit Senate after announced retirement
Veteran Montana Senator Mike Mansfield said he will not seek re election. He stated he reached the decision with his wife Maureen Hayes Mansfield who has supported him through his career and provided counsel.
Judge rules Hearst lacks standing to suppress evidence
A federal judge denied Patricia Hearst's bid to suppress evidence from the 288 Precita Street search. Judge Oliver Carter ruled Hearst had no proprietary or possessory interest, so she cannot challenge the Fourth Amendment violation claims. Fingerprints on items remain admissible as circumstantial evidence of her presence.
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San Francisco
UPI
Patricia Hearst
Oliver J Carter
Miss Hearst
Seach
Precita Street
F. Lee Bailey
William
Emily Harris
Carter
Missing CIA documents entrusted to Congress
CIA Director George Bush was told about about 230 CIA documents given to the House intelligence committee that vanished. Rep. Otis Pike said the papers, some secret, were returned to the CIA and should have been kept in CIA facilities but may have been diverted to the National Archives.
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Washington
UPI
CIA
George Bush
House Intelligence Committee
Otis Pike
Pike
House
National
Select Committee
Bush
Rhodesia Sanctions Hit Beira Port Blocking trade routes
Mozambique police seized Rhodesian property in Beira in the first U N I sanctions move. Omar Juma moved armed police into Rhodesian buildings while Samora Machel ordered confiscation and closure of outlets to the sea. Vorster warned of friction as Rhodesia’s routes to the sea were blocked and Salisbury’s regime faced pressure toward majority rule.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
UPI
Mozambique
Indian Ocean
Beira
Radio
Omar Juma
Samora Machel
U.N
Machel
Cape Town
John Vorster
Africa
Vorster
Ian Smith
Secret Soviet leadership chosen at hidden party congress
Soviet leaders reportedly selected the new Central Committee at a highly secret session of the 25th Communist party congress in Moscow. Tass confirmed only that elections were discussed as the Kremlin imposed strict secrecy on proceedings amid widespread East bloc summit speculation.
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Moscow
UPI
Kremlin
Tass
Nomenkilatura
Three Lompoc schools burglarized in youth-driven break-ins
Police report three local schools were broken into Tuesday night. Fillmore School, Lompoc Junior High, and Hapgood School were ransacked as culprits searched for money. minimal losses noted though vending machines yielded about 45 dollars total. No suspects identified. case under review.
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Fillmore School
E. Pine Ave
Lompoc Junior High School
N St
Hapgood School
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