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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1971
Page
1
The Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce offers public Vandenberg AFB tours on Monday and April 5 with Santa Maria tours on April 6. Up to 35 people per date may participate and registration is required. Tours last about three hours and entry instructions will be provided. Participants under 16 or with certain disabilities are not admitted.
In Ankara a 5000-strong force battled METU students for four hours but found no sign of four U S airmen kidnapped with a $400000 ransom demand. One student died, fifteen others plus a Turkish officer and soldier wounded as violence rippled through Turkey.
President Nixon announced a $2 billion per year urban development program spanning 247 metropolitan areas. He said cities would have near total control over funds, and most aid categories would be consolidated to target decaying big cities with a formula considering population, overcrowding, housing quality, and poverty.
Washington officials report rail labor and management resumed contract talks to avert a strike by 150 000 train crewmen. Assistant Labor Secretary W J Usery Jr said he woke up with new ideas for the bargaining session at the Labor Department. He did not disclose the ideas.
In Laos near Sepone the Communists fortify with missile sites and up to 50 tanks as 2,000 South Vietnamese troops close to the town on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. U.S. bombs cleared landing zones while North Vietnamese armored units join a defense around Sepone. The push follows a prior engagement that left 42 North Vietnamese and three South Vietnamese dead.
The California Coordinating Committee for the Space Shuttle meets Monday at 7 p.m. in the Santa Maria Club to finalize how it will present the shuttle program to Gov. Ronald Reagan. They will name trip participants to Sacramento and arrange transportation.
James A. Cook executive director of the California Space Shuttle Task Force told city officials that California has a very good chance to win the NASA space shuttle program but faces a big sales job. He noted the final decision will rely on NASA studies DoD requirements White House priorities and congressional committees. Cook and Robert Volk will brief Governor Reagan in Sacramento March 10 and then tour Vandenberg AFB.
President Nixon defended the Laos invasion as proving the South Vietnamese army can fight, while stating no plan exists to back a South Vietnamese assault on North Vietnam. He emphasized removing U.S. troops and did not rule out air power on border targets if Hanoi actions continue. He cited Abrams and a 55 percent cut in truck traffic on the Ho Chi Minh trail.
UPI reports February unemployment at 5.8 percent with 5.4 million out of work. After seasonal adjustment the rate drops from 6.0 to 5.8 percent as teen jobless figures improve and full-time seeker rates hold.
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