Exxon plan approved for onshore facilities near Goleta
County Planning Commission backed a 5-4 vote approving a precise plan for Exxon Corp. onshore facilities in Las Flores and Corral Canyons west of Goleta. The measure includes a processing plant, storage, roads, and mass grading with a mid-1976 offshore platform goal pending permits.
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County Planning Commission
Exxon Corp
Las Flores
Corral Canyons
Goleta
Refugio-El Capitan
Santa Barbara Channel
Britt Johnson
Exxon
John F. Adam Jr
Robert C. Lilley
M.W. Duncan
Darwin Sainz
Don Hamister
Peter Bratt
Harwood White Jr
Tom Nielsen
Robert Looker
Motorcyclists defend area amid noise and dust complaints
About 60 motorcycle enthusiasts urged the Parks and Recreation Commission to tolerate noise and dust from the Santa Ynez River Park recreation area. Residents Andy Ross Ann Calvert and Donna Starbuck argued windborne dust and noise affect homes daily from 3 p.m. The commission will reassess in three months after monitoring by Luke and volunteers.
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Parks and Recreation Commission
Santa Ynez River Park
Andy Ross
Ann Calvert
Donna Starbuck
Harry H. Lukk
Law Associates
Lompoc
Sheriff's Department
Jon Phelps
South F St
Ryan Park
Luke
Dan Hovner
Lompoc Slo-Pokes
Portuguese workers trap prime minister in Sao Bento Palace
Thousands of construction workers surrounded the Sao Bento Palace in Lisbon blocking access to Prime Minister Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo. They demanded a 25 percent pay rise and warned he would remain imprisoned until their wage claims were met. Police, deputies, and officials faced a tense standoff as an air force helicopter delivered food to trapped leaders.
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Portugal
UPI
Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo
Air Force
Azevedo
Sao Bento Palace
Sao Bento
Constituent Assembly
Pressure mounts on Ford to select woman justice
The Ford administration faces pressure to name the first woman to the Supreme Court after Justice Douglas’s retirement. Betty Ford and the League of Women Voters back a female nominee, with names like Carla Hills and Shirley Hufstedler floated alongside others.
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Woman
Betty Ford
League of Women Voters
Mrs. Ford
League
Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld
Douglas
Peached
Mrs. Hills
Justice Department
Shirley M Hufstedler
9Th Circuit Court of Appeals
California
Betty Murphy
National Labor Relations Board
New York
Rita Hauser
Michigan
Martha Griffiths
High Court
HUD
Carla Hills
Stanford University
Yale Law School
Cathy
Gulf Oil gave illegal campaign funds to congressmen in 1970
Federal court records show former Gulf Oil lobbyist Thomas P. Kerester delivered seven thousand dollars from an alleged illegal fund to Rep. William Cramer of Florida and Sen. William Brock of Tennessee as they sought Senate seats. The money came from Gulf officials linking to Boston Mayor Kevin White and Gov. Francis Sargent.
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Washington
UPI
Florida
Tennessee
Senate
Gulf
Boston
Kevin White
Francis Sargent
Massachusetts
William Brock
Rtenn
William Cramer
R-Fla
Congress
Thomas P. Kerester
Claude Wild
Brock
Cramer
Albert Gore
Lawton Chiles
Kerester
Kesterer
Wild
Citizens For Brock Committee
Dick Haber
Justice Douglas retires after longest court term ends era
Justice William O. Douglas, 77, steps down from the Supreme Court ending the longest bench tenure in history after 36 years. Ford administration eyes potential female successor with Carla Hills among names, as replacement to be named in coming weeks.
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Justice Douglas
Washington
UPI
William O Douglas
Supreme Court
Ford
Douglas
White House
Kidnapped GM Executive Son Released After Ransom
The 13 year old Timothy Stempel, son of GM Chevrolet executive Robert C. Stempel, was released unharmed from Wayne County Hospital after a $150000 ransom was paid. FBI and state police supported the operation, but no suspects were named. Timothy called his father at the hospital to report he was safe.
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Detroit
UPI
General Motors Corp
FBI
Timothy Stempel
Robert C. Stempel
Chevrolet
Wayne County General Hospital
Donald Zimmerman
Bloomfield Township
Wayne
Timothy
Zimmerman
Stempel
Bomb explosion rocks Zion Square in Jerusalem
A bomb exploded at Zion Square during rush hour injuring several and killing at least two. The blast outside Misgash Haboureka snack bar blew glass from shops and sent victims to hospitals as police cordoned off Jaffa Road and Lunz Street area.
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Jerusalem
UPI
Zion Square
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Hills
Margaret Hechler
R-Mass
Michigan U.S
Cornelia Kennedy
Levi
University of Chicago
Robert Griffin
Gulf Oil
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