Desai Sworn India Prime Minister Promises Democracy Restoration
Morarji Desai, 81, former deputy premier jailed under Indira Gandhi, is sworn India’s prime minister. He vows to repeal emergency laws, restore judicial independence, free press, and curb censorship. Desai outlines non alignment and possible Indo Soviet treaty review amid parliament gains by Janata and allies.
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New Delhi
India
UPI
Morarji Desai
Indira Gandhi
Desai
Britsh
Janata (People’s) Party
Congress For Democracy
Gandhi
Mrs. Gandhi
Price prop plan termed unacceptable
Washington House Agriculture Committee members told Agriculture Secretary Bergland the Carter administration farm price supports are unacceptable. They urged higher supports for milk corn and cotton, while Bergland warned Congress and Carter as spending limits loom.
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Washington
Bergland
Keith G. Sebelius
R-Kan
Sebelius
Richard Nolan
D-Minn
Congress
Carter
Lompoc Recycling Group Gains Boost from City Officials
A startup recycling group SAVE led by Mary Walsh gains support from Councilwoman Elinor Lefkowitz and Supervisor Robert Hedlund as it plans to collect newspapers at 316 N First Pl on Saturdays. The city council allocates a landfill spot for large metal item deposits and a metal recovery center is planned.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc
Elinor Lefkowitz
Robert L. Hedlund
Lefkowitz
Mary Walsh
Hedlund
Walsh
N. First Pl
SAVE
Joe Mangino
Mangino
Richard Harris
Administration pushes $2.50 federal minimum wage plan
UPI reports the administration urged Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $2.50 an hour by July 1 with automatic annual increases. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall defended indexing to inflation and rejected inflation fears while noting future increases tied to factory worker earnings.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Ray Marshall
House Labor
John Dent
D-Pa
Labor
Marshall
Dent
Aflcio
Carter approves resumption of Paris talks with Vietnam
President Carter accepts Hanoi invitation to Paris negotiations as a step toward normalizing relations with Vietnam. White House aides say timing and U S representation are undecided while a presidential commission notes cordial atmosphere in Hanoi and strong U S responsibility perceived for aid.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Paris
United States
White House
U.S
Hanoi
Indochina
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Leonard Woodcock
Phan van Dong
La Purisima park expansion funded in Brown budget
Land acquisition to expand La Purisima Mission State Park in Lompo is proposed for 1977 78 fiscal year. The 215 acre parcel south of the mission along Lompoc Casmalia Road is slated for purchase from the Collier Park Preservation Fund to preserve the mission's historical and environmental integrity.
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la Purisima Mission State Park
Lomare
Edmund G. Brown
Sacramento
Omer L. Rains
Lompoc- Casmalia Road
State Parks and Recreation Department
Parks Commission
Mission Park
Collier Park Preservation Fund
la Purisima Mission
State Parks Department
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Gandhi New India
The
Congress Party
Party
Jagjivan Ram
Ram
Congress For Democracy Party
Janata Party
Punjab
Kashmir
Himachal Pradesh
Southern Pacific
Johns-Manville
Commission
Ocean Avenue
Pine Avenue
la Purisima Park
Mission la Purisima
Parks Department
Brown
Lompoc-Casmalia Road
Mission
Boston
George
Cecelia Serres
Serres
Burpee Seed Company
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