Light turnout in Lompoc school and college trustee vote
Balloting opened at 7 a.m. for two Lompoc Unified School District trustees and one Allan Hancock College District Division Five trustee amid light participation. Polls close at 8 p.m. with counts expected after 10:30 p.m. and results announced from the County Administration Building.
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Allan Hancock College
William Sumner
Ed Walsh
First Methodist Church
la Canada
Housing Authority
Miguelito School
Buena Vista
Cabrillo High
Los Berros
Fillmore
el Camino
Hapgood
Jan Severson
Solvang
William Webb
Santa Ynez
John B. Carricaburu
Cypress Avenue
E Street
Dep
Ann Sweet
GAO faults Interior for offshore lease data and bidding
The GAO report says Interior approved offshore oil leases with unreliable geological data and weak competition. It urges a selective systematic exploration program to improve data for better resource decisions and notes many tracts failed to attract bids or meet expected leasing goals.
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UPI
Interior Department
General Accounting Office
Secretary of Interior
GAO
Congress
Outer Continental Shelf
California
Carter Rabin reaffirm US Israel friendship and peace hopes
President Carter and Prime Minister Rabin reaffirmed the United States Israel friendship and shared goal of permanent Middle East peace this year. Rabin planned talks with Congress and a news conference during his three day White House visit.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Yitzhak Rabin
United States
Israel
Middle East
Rabin
Congress
White House
Ex-Marine hostage standoff at Warrensville Heights police station
Corey Moore, 26, holds diabetic Capt. Leo Keglovic and student Shelly Kiggans hostage at a police station in Warrensville Heights. He demands President Carter call and later shifts demands, threatens white people, and exchanges a TV for the girl. Moore fired after insulin supplies were requested.
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Warrensville Heights
Ohio
UPI
Carter
Corey Moore
Leo Keglovic
Shelly Kiggans
Moore
White House
Craig Merchant
Secret Service
HEW Secretary Outlines Major Reorganization Plan
HEW Secretary Joseph A Califano proposes creating a Health Care Financing Administration to run Medicare and Medicaid and moving welfare payments to the Social Security Administration. The plan would eliminate HEW Social and Rehabilitation Service and streamline operations to curb fraud and abuse. It requires no congressional approval and aims for completion within two months.
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UPI
HEW
Joseph A. Califano
Social Security Administration
Califano
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Social and Rehabilitation Service
Medicare
Health
U.S. Public Health
Carter
Department
Congress
Hill
Chicago Tribune
White House
President urges Warnke appointment
President Carter pressed Senate approval of Paul Warnke as chief U S arms negotiator, asserting final say on any Soviet weapons deal. At a breakfast with Democrats, Carter backed Warnke after his apology for 25 typographical errors in Senate testimony, while critics urged withdrawal over alleged doctored statements.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Senate
Paul Warnke
Warnke
U.S
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Cranston
Carter adviser backs 50 dollar per person tax rebate
Charles Schultze testified before the Senate Finance Committee that the economy is improving but needs further fiscal stimulus for significant unemployment relief. He joined Blumenthal and Lance at the hearing on Carter's stimulus plan as the House nears sending its tax bill. Carter opposed a tax credit for new hires, arguing it favors new businesses but lacks reinforcement for established industries.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Charles Schultze
Council of Economic Advisers
Senate Finance Committee
Schultze
Treasury
Michael Blumenthal
Bert Lance
Senate
House
Tax advisers clash over business tax incentives and rebates
Carter's three top economic advisers object to changes in business tax incentives. They argue the House Ways and Means plan to reduce unemployment through tax cuts would not work. Schultze calls the plan mainly useful to small businesses and not a major job stimulant. Neither rebate nor individual tax cuts is a point of Senate-House controversy.
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Carter
House
Ways and Means Committee
Schultze
Senate
Army releases comprehensive report on 239 biological tests
The Army released a comprehensive review showing 239 biological warfare tests at 92 U.S. locations from 1942 to 1966. It details open air simulant releases 160 times, harmful organism tests 48 times, and anti crop agent tests 31 times across 23 locations. Open air tests occurred at Dugway Utah Eglin Florida and a Wisconsin research station.
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Washington
UPI
Army Today
United States
U.S
Senate
Army
Dugway Proving Ground
Utah
Eglin Air Force Base
Florida
University of Wisconsin
Dugway
New York
San Francisco
Army helicopter pilot recounts kidnaping near Fort Ord
1st Lt. Donald Patterson 26 of Blooming Grove Texas says he was abducted by two men after a movie at Fort Ord and held for a week. He was fed bread and water and treated like a prisoner of war. The FBI investigates possible antiwar group involvement and a letter to Maj. Gen. Kirwan contained abusive language and demands. Patterson, a West Point graduate, was released near the California coast and is in good condition. Weather outlook shows cooler with highs 65 to 70.
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Salinas
UPI
Fort Ord
California
Donald Patterson
Blooming Grove
Tex
FBI
Patterson
Earldene Patterson
Robert Kirwan
Army
West Point
7Th Infantry Division
7Th Battalion
Dan
Texas
Vietnam
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Merchant
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Daniel Graham
Emergency Coalition Against
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