Protests Grow Against Vietnam War In Saigon And U S Bases
United Press International reports organized war protests by U S military members in combat zones and at home. A Vietnam Veterans Against the War petition collects signatures from over 400 servicemen, aiming for 2,000, to send to Congress before Christmas recess.
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America
Mohler
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Veterans’ Group
New York
Congress
Saigon
Southeast Asia
Labor groups pledge cooperation with Phase II economic plan
AFL-CIO President George Meany announced labor would cooperate with the Phase II wage and price controls after Nixon stated the COLC would not veto wage board or price commission decisions. The union leaders said watchdog units would monitor prices while Meany confirmed autonomy for wage and price panels.
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Washington
UPI
Organized Labor
Nixon
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Teamsters and
Auto Workers Unions
James D. Hodgson
George P. Shultz
White House
Office of Management and Budget
Meany
Executive Council
Wage Board
The
Price Commission
Cost of Living Council
COLC
Pay Board and Price Commission
CCLC
Hodgson
Nixon to visit Moscow in May amid talks on arms and war risk
President Nixon announced in the White House press room that he will travel to Moscow in late May after visiting Peking. He said the trips aim to reduce the risk of war and cover strategic arms limits, the Middle East, and other negotiation topics with the Soviet leadership. Nixon will be accompanied by William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger, with a carefully prepared summit to avoid impasse. He also said nominations would be made next week for two Supreme Court vacancies.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Moscow
White House
Red China
U.S
Europe
Japan
House
Senate
Peking
Middle East
Soviet Union
Andrei Gromyko
William P. Rogers
Henry A. Kissinger
Supreme Court
Arbitrator to settle LA dock dispute
Federal arbitrator George Love promised a ruling by midafternoon to end the L A and Long Beach port tie up. He said both labor and management would abide by the decision as longshoremen in other West Coast cities had returned to work. Union leaders in Los Angeles and Long Beach denied attempting to block resumption of duties.
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San Francisco
UPI
Los Angeles
Long Beach Harbors
West Coast
Obs
George Love
Long Beach
Lompoc Planning Commission Decides to Stand Pat on Parking Revisions
The Lompoc Planning Commission voted to stand firm on revisions to off street parking within the zoning ordinance and asked Community Development Director Nicholas Bevilacqua to inform the City Council. The panel cited extensive study and concerns about realism of current parking rules. They also reported progress on Community Goals committee work and approved two permits for Worth and Shows related to a home telephone service and a parking lot carnival October 15 to 17.
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Lompoc
Nicholas Bevilacqua
James Longtin
Commission
James Klegge
Kranig
George Barnes
William Fick
William Paulin
Merrijane Pritchard
Vernon Copeland
Bevilacqua
Donald Dee Worth, Sr
Wes Shows
Santa Maria backs north county jail plan
Santa Maria City Administrator Robert F. Grogan told the Board of Supervisors the city endorses the north county correction system concept to centralize jail functions under county direction and reduce duplication with Santa Barbara and Lompoc. Talks with Santa Barbara officials aim to turn city prisoners over to the Goleta Valley facility by early 1972, possibly by February.
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North County
Santa Maria
Board of Supervisors
Robert F. Grogan
Grogan
North County Correction System
Santa Barbara
Lompoc
Gerald Firestone
Charles F. Catterlin
John W. Carpenter
Goleta Valley
Coast fire backfires ridge lines to save communities
Firefighters halted a six day blaze along the Pacific coast as helicopters dropped incendiaries to backfire ridges. The 12 000 acre fire killed four people and injured 21, with seven homes destroyed and containment around 80 percent. Fire crews of 2 135 federal and state workers plus an air fleet fought the Los Padres National Forest blaze along a 35 mile perimeter.
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Summerland
UPS
Pacific Coast
Carpinteria
Santa
Los Padres National Forest
Forest Service
Jerry Cause
Pirates rally past Orioles for 5-1 win in World Series chase
Steve Blass pitched a three hitter to lift the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Baltimore Orioles 5-1. Bob Robertson delivered a three run homer in the seventh as Pittsburgh narrows the series and can tie it at 2-2 with tomorrow’s game, the first World Series night game in baseball history.
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Pittsburgh
Steve Blass
Pittsburgh Pirates
Baltimore Orioles
Bob Robertson
Pirates
Coastal Weather Outlook With Fog and Warm Inland Plumes
Weather remains fair through Wednesday with fog and low clouds near the coast moving on shore at night and in the morning. Temperatures hold steady with coastal highs in the 60s and inland highs in the 70s to low 80s. Tonight’s low is in the 40s, northwest winds 10 to 15 mph afternoons. Wednesday tides show highs of 4.6 ft at 8 08 am and 4.9 ft at 7 20 pm, lows of 0.2 ft at 2 26 am and 2.3 ft at 1 44 pm.
Supreme Court declines to rule on Vietnam war legality
The Supreme Court refused to rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War for the second time, leaving intact a 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution interpretation and government funding actions. Justices Douglas and Brennan favored hearing the case. the decision arises from an ACLU suit in New York challenging congressional approval of the war.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Congress
William O. Douglas
William J. Brennan Jr
2Nd
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
New York
Tonkin Gulf
Vietnam
Jacob K. Javits
Rn.y
Tonkin
Glimpses of Florence Smith in a Record Room
Florence Smith sits in the circulation department amused by a tiny inch-worm on her desk. Mrs. C. H. Anderson of Neptune Vandenberg Village smiles as her grandchildren march on television in a parade.
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Florence Smith
C. H. Anderson
Neptune
Vandenberg Village
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Michael Scott Leroy
Charles LeRoy
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