Nixon to Hold Friday News Conference on ABM Decision
President Nixon will meet with congressional leaders from both parties to discuss the antiballistic missile ABM program. A Friday news conference is planned with questions on all subjects, possibly signaling his position on the Sentinel system suspended for review.
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Nixon
Richard Lerner
Washington
UPI
White House
Ronald Ziesler
Sentinel
Ziegler
Negroes use violence to shut down Los Angeles schools
In Los Angeles angry Black Student Alliance protests escalate with arson, walkouts, and window smashing aimed at closing 18 schools. Leaders demand police barred from campuses while authorities condemn the violence and parents are urged to attend meetings as arrests rise and fires damage classrooms.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Black Students Alliance
Sam Yorty
Los Angeles City College
Carver Junior High
Manual Arts High
Yorty
Carver
Grape Street
Mideast fighting across Suez continues amid clashes
Israeli forces clash with Jordanian troops across the Jordan River cease fire line and confront thousands of Arab demonstrators in Nablus. Cairo reports Egyptian artillery attempting to disrupt Israeli tanks massed for an invasion across the Suez Canal while Israeli leader Allon warns Egypt as defense lines are built on the east bank.
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United Press International
Jordan River
Nasser
Nablus
Suez Canal
Cairo
al Ahram
Israel
Yigal Allon
East Bank
Egypt
Library board debates multipurpose room use policy
Trustees convene a special meeting to resolve rules for the librarys new multipurpose room amid a donation proposal by Lompoch High School music teacher Larry Delinger and fellow musicians. City attorney says board can decide policy, non profit groups may use room, admission charges under review.
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Larry Delinger
Lompoc High School
Library
James Longtin
Alice McKenzie
Lompoc
Vandenberg AFB Poised for Major Federal Aerospace Funding
Budget proposals for FY 1970 signal a large federal slice for Vandenberg AFB under the Nixon administration. MOL funding totals 576 million for continued development as astronauts begin intensified training for first MOL orbital missions from Lompoc. Additional requests include 121 million for ABRES research and a 50 million prototype super hard silo, with potential local contract growth and an overall economic upturn anticipated.
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Ly E.C Stevens
Vandenberg Afb
Nixon
ABRES
VAFB
Army
Boeing Company
Vandenberg
United States warns Soviet on Vietnam shelling
The United States told the Soviet Union it may take retaliatory action if Hanoi continues shelling major South Vietnamese cities. Secretary of State Rogers discussed the warning with Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin during a two hour meeting amid broader talks on Middle East crisis and arms control. The White House has pressed for action if casualties rise, with President Nixon to confer with Defense Secretary Laird before any steps.
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Nixon
National Security Council
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Washington
Vietnam
Senate
Sentinel
Ziegler
Security Council
Laird
House
Gerald R. Ford
Mike Mansfield
Montana
America
Clifford P. Case
D-N.j
White House
Henry A. Kissinger
Stewart Hensley Washington
UPI
United States
Soviet Union
South Vietnam
William P. Rogers
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Rogers
Dobrynin
Hanoi
Moscow
Dobryn
Middle East
State Department
Department
Extra orbit ordered for Apollo 9 splashdown
Apollo 9 crew moved to a new calmer splashdown area 480 miles south after weather forced a one orbit delay. The USS Guadalcanal altered course to reach the target site with a 9 03 p m PST splashdown estimate and seas calmer than the original forecast.
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AL Rossiter JR
UPI
Space Winter Space Center
Houston
Atlantic
Guadalcanal
James A. McDivitt
David R. Scott
Russell L. Schweickart
Stewart Roosa
McDivitt
Uss Guadalcanal
Bermuda
Roosa
American Troops Battle to Stem Communists Near Saigon
U S forces killed 138 guerrillas in two major clashes northwest and southwest of Saigon as fighting spread to the DMZ and A Shau Valley. Marines faced supply shortages amid monsoon rains while artillery and air strikes struck targets and additional enemy deaths were reported around the Saigon outskirts.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Paris
Vietnam
South Vietnam
A Shau
Dwz
Weather Outlook and Tides for March 13
Cloudy through Thursday with a chance of showers tonight and Thursday. Highs 55 to 60, lows 38 to 42. Light winds. March 13 tides show high tides at 5.3 feet at 5 50 a.m. and 3.9 feet at 8 08 p.m. A low tide of minus 0.9 feet at 1 20 p.m.
Lompoc Library Opens New Facility Amid Easter Displays
Glimpses of a Siamese car and a transistor radio atop a black Volkswagen on North D Street, Easter displays in stores, and crowds at a carnival in the Shopping Center as the Lompoc Library records its biggest two day circulation and attendance following the opening on East North Avenue Monday.
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D Street
Lompoc
East North Avenue
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Suez
Manned Orbiting Lab
Russia
Apollo
Wallace Grossi JR
Badger Subdivision
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