Princess Anne gives birth to a son at St Marys Hospital
Princess Anne and Capt Mark Phillips welcomed a 7 pound 9 ounce son the queen confirms as fifth in line to the throne. The baby, born at 10 46 am in London, is the first grandchild of a reigning monarch to be born a commoner.
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Brown leads in California gubernatorial poll
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. holds a sizable edge in the California Poll over top GOP rivals in simulated matchups. Brown leads Younger Davis Wilson Maddy and Briggs by wide margins, with 58 to 12 in a straw vote and a 60 to 24 or higher spread against the others. Field cautions that early poll figures are not forecasts and recalls Brown's 1974 campaign swings.
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Ken Maddy
Orange County
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Racial violence rocks Boston during school visit
Charles Battles, 26, a history teacher, and a group of 12 students from Pine Forge Academy were attacked on Bunker Hill by whites with wooden sticks and golf clubs. Battles and four students were injured. Mayor Kevin White apologized and called the incident a lasting scar on the city.
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Arson Fire Devastates Topanga Canyon Area
Firefighters battled a brush blaze in Topanga Canyon believed arsonged as it scorched over 600 acres and destroyed six homes. About 700 firefighters from Los Angeles City and County plus Ventura County fought with aircraft and heavy equipment while hundreds evacuated. No injuries or looting reported as flames approached Pacific Palisades areas and Palisades Highlands, with winds calm and fog aiding containment.
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Smooth start to universe but not violent say NASA scientists
NASA researchers from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and UC Berkeley report that the big bang origin was a highly uniform expansion. Using a high altitude U 2 instrument they measured energy waves revealing no rotation and a serene early cosmos, while our sun and Milky Way speed through Hydra at over a million miles per hour.
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Air Force Academy allows pregnant cadets to stay
The Air Force Academy will permit pregnant women to remain in school and pursue a commission, provided they resign or take unpaid leave during pregnancy and give up the infant for adoption to stay enrolled, while marriage remains prohibited.
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UPI
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Dents
California Legislature to hire Washington lobbying office
The California Legislature moved to lease space in a Capitol Hill building to lobby Congress and the Carter administration. Four staffers would handle energy and health issues with an annual chief’s salary of 35 000 to 40 000 dollars and a 1 400 square foot office costing about 15 000 dollars yearly.
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Britons Fight Fires Alone as Firefighters Strike
British troops battled several London fires solo after striking firefighters left lines to aid a hospital blaze. St Andrews hospital evacuated 100 plus patients as 12 strikers assisted 30 soldiers. no injuries reported.
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Feds hear protests over California water rules at Fresno hearings
Protesters with placards and tractors gathered as the Interior Department opened two days of hearings on proposed rules altering federal reclamation policy. Testimony focused on enforcing the 160 acre ownership limit and ending land leasing, with speakers from Westlands District and groups like National Land for People voicing opposition and support from various water districts and farmers.
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