Florida invited to join California in space shuttle bid
Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke announced California would invite Florida officials to join a cooperative effort to win shuttle authorization and funding. At the Space Shuttle Task Force meeting in Los Angeles he said polar orbit launches center on California and urged support from business labor and government leaders to back the program.
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Ed Reinecke
California
Florida
Congress
Reinecke
Space Shuttle Task Force
Ambassador Hotel
Los Angeles
United States
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Alan Cranston
Lucien Hass
Cranston
U.S
Washington, D.C
House of Senate
Lompoc Hospital District to hold 1.5 million bond election
Lompoc Hospital District directors authorize a 1.5 million bond sale for a June 6 election. They seek a 37,500 land option for five acres to build a 75 bed nursing home and fund hospital expansion on Hickory Avenue. A fulltime pharmacist hire at 1187 dollars monthly was approved.
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Lompoc Hospital
Kenneth Wicks
Hickory Avenue
G. G. Schuknecht
Board of Supervisors
Walnut and
Chestnut Avenues
P and Q Streets
Britain assumes direct rule of Northern Ireland
Britain ends 51 years of Protestant rule and imposes direct rule from London for at least a year to curb violence. Heath promises plebiscites on the north south border while phase out of internment continues. Protestants and Catholics reject the move. Belfast shipworkers march. fears of civil war and IRA reaction rise.
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London
UPI
Britain
Northern Ireland
Belfast
Edward Heath
House of Commons
Edward VIII
Heath
Ulster
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Republic of Ireland
Ireland
Frazer Agnew
Young Unionist Party Organization
Vandenberg to layoff 92 civilian employees
The Air Force will lay off 92 civilian employees at Vandenberg AFB by June 30 due to reduced fiscal year 1972 funding and the 1973 budget level. Officials say affected workers are being identified and will receive at least 60 days notice with efforts to reassign within the federal government. Most will qualify for severance pay or early retirement where placement is not possible.
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Air Force
Vandenberg
Vandenberg Afb
Communists Shoot Down U S Helicopter in Vietnam
In South Vietnam Communist ground troops downed a U S Army DH6 Loach helicopter on a reconnaissance run north of Saigon. The two man crew were rescued unharmed. Separate clashes left Laos positions overrun near Luang Prabang and a Phnom Penh bridge damaged by a large plastic charge with casualties reported.
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Saigon
UPS
USS
South Vietnam
Laos
U.S
Gulf of Tonkin
Luang Prabang
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Tonle Sap
U.S. Command
Congressional push to end US Indochina war within 60 days
Lawmakers unveil a plan to force a full U.S. pullout from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia within 60 days of POWs’ return, funding cutoffs to enforce the move, and limited air strikes only to cover withdrawal. Proponents frame it as a 1972 Mansfield-style measure.
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House
U.S
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Indochina
Thailand
Congress
Defense asks Congress for 191.2 million in California military construction
The Defense Department asks for 191.2 million in new military construction funding for California as part of a 3 billion FY bill. Navy projects dominate the list with many base and facility builds in San Diego Bay, Mare Island, and Camp Pendleton among others.
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Defense Department
Congress
California
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Navy
Air Force
San Diego
Navy Public Works Center
Naval Station
Camp Pendleton
Marine Corps Base
Marine Corps Air Station
el Toro
Orange County
Tweety-nine Palms
Ford Ord
Presidio of
San Francisco
Monterey
Sierra Army Depot
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By Vaughn Proctor
Wicks
Eamonn McCann
Anti-Internment Organization
McCann
Sean MacSaieffan
Provisional Ira
Lompoc
Ron Reed
W. Locust Ave
James Schuler
South K St
Penny Roubideaux
South Pass
Wyo
Washington
Congressional
Edward Koch
D-N.y
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mike Gravel
Dalaska
Walter Mondale
Dminn
Robert Drinan
D-Mass
VAFB
WAFB
Navy Naval Amphibious Base
Coronado
Imperial
Alameda Nas
Naval Facility
Centerville Beach
Lemoore
Naval Schools
Mare Island
Vallejo
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Moffett Field
Nas
Fleet Numerical Weather Central
Treasure Island
Naval Security Group
Skaggs Island
Marine Corps
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