Washington antiwar protests price tag tops 1.5 million
Officials in Washington DC and federal agencies assign at least 1.5 million dollars to three weeks of antiwar demonstrations. Costs include police overtime park repairs cleanup and lost business with potential for higher totals as figures solidify. Walter Fauntroy urges federal reimbursement.
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Hotel Association of Washington
Capitol Hill
Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade
Communists strike during Buddha birthday truce in Vietnam
During a 48 hour Viet Cong truce for Buddha's birthday, two U.S. paratroopers and two ARVN soldiers were killed as ambushes and a radio controlled mine struck patrols in the Central Highlands. Air strikes against anti aircraft guns continued in Laos and Cambodia.
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Laos
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South Vietnam
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Cambodia
County hearing room change debated for public hearings
The Board of Supervisors face a request from Arneta Crossman of PLUS to permit hearings outside Santa Barbara. The issue ties to a proposed 7.5 million State Route 1 Harris Grade freeway project opposed by PLUS and Sierra Club for its potential tax waste and landscape impact. The May 17 hearing is set for Santa Barbara, with Beattie saying hearings may be county seat required unless a county counsel interpretation allows special hearings elsewhere.
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Lompoc
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Planners to Hold Two Hearings on Permits
The Planning Commission will hold two public hearings on home occupation permits. John Terrones seeks a home based freelance photography business at 406 S L St in an R1 zone. Jane Schroeder seeks a telephone answering service combined with catering at 509 S Q St in an R1 zone.
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Jane Schroeder
S. Q St
Samcor Inc
E. Ocean Ave
West Germany presses end to dollar support in Common Market
West German Economics Minister Karl Schiller urged five Common Market partners to float currencies against the dollar, allowing the mark to find its natural level. The meeting in Brussels between Schiller and finance ministers from West Germany France Italy the Netherlands Belgium and Luxembourg aimed at a permanent solution amid speculative pressure and a potential single West European currency.
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Great Britain
Liberal Republicans plan national Dump Nixon group meeting
A reform-minded GOP bloc led by Charles Goodell and Reps Donald W. Riegle Jr. and Paul N. McCloskey Jr. will convene in Washington on May 16 to organize a nationwide Dump Nixon group. Other congressmen, major contributors, and state party leaders opposed to Nixon policies expected. session described as a closed strategy talk at a Washington home.
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UPI
Charles Goodell
New York
Donald W. Riegle Jr
Michigan
Paul N. McCloskey Jr
California
Rogers Ends Middle East Trip With Narrowing Gap Claim
U S Secretary of State William P. Rogers said the peace mission reduced the Egypt Israel rift. He noted a potential Israeli concession allowing Egyptian presence on the Suez east bank after a canal reopening and troop pullback. Sisco travels to Cairo for talks with Sadat as Rogers meets Meir in Israel and Rome officials.
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Giuseppe Saragat
Gunfire in Santa Barbara prompts manhunt and campus arrests
Authorities investigate a wave of shootings across Santa Barbara with no injuries. A slug pierced Cottage Hospital fourth floor window endangering a woman and nurse while a Bank of America branch and other businesses were struck. Police seek a black and yellow late model car driver. UCSB police detained three suspects on narcotics and weapon charges, but officials say the campus case is not linked to the city shootings.
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Cartoonist Al Capp sought on morals charge in Wisconsin
An arrest warrant from Eau Claire County charges Al Capp, creator of L il Abner, with sodomy and indecent exposure in an April incident at Eau Claire State University. Capp denies the allegations as a leftist campaign to silence him and plans extradition.
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Thomas H. Barland
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