Unemployment woes for veterans in Lompoc rise
The August unemployment rate in Lompoc tops 11 percent with a large share of job seekers veterans from Vandenberg AFB. Veterans face barriers including skill transfer to civilian jobs, education versus experience gaps, and lingering war-era stigma, officials say.
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Jim Sweeney
Lompoc
Vandenberg Afb
Office of Employment Data and Research
Sacramento
California
Employment Security Automatic Reporting System
ESARS
Economic Development Department
Stars and Stripes
Vandenberg
Jim Collins
Allan Hancock College
Vietnam
Collins
Larry Chavez
Veterans
Lompoc Edd
Chavez
Ford denies Dean tale on Watergate links
President Ford rejects claims of meetings with Nixon aides to block the Watergate probe before the 1972 election. He says as House leader he acted to protect a narrow investigation at GOP request and would do so again under the circumstances.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Richard Nixon
House
GOP
House Banking and Currency Subcommittee
Nixon
John W. Dean III
White House
Richard Cook
John Mitchell
H.R. Haldeman
John Ehrlichman
George Brown
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Brown
Israel
Glad
Edward Levi
FBI
Clarence Kelley
Kelley
Jimmy Carter
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Carter
Ferry collision kills sixteen on Mississippi River
A commuter ferry George Prince collided with the Norwegian tanker Frosta near Destrehan Louisiana. Sixteen bodies recovered and about fifty missing as divers search in frigid 40 degree waters. Dozens rescued and river shipping halted.
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Destrehan
UPI
Mississippi River
George Prince
Luling
U S and Panama start talks on canal treaty
UPI reports the United States and Panama resume negotiations on a new canal treaty. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker flies to Panama to meet negotiators on Contadora Island as Kissinger and Boyd setup the talks. Carter's campaign has critics wary of canal control transfer.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Panama
Ronald Reagan
White House
Ellsworth Bunker
Contadora Island
Gulf of Panama
Henry Kissinger
Aquilino Boyd
United Nations
Reagan
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Panama Canal Zone
VAFB Policeman Believed Drowned Off Arguello Coast
Rescue teams from Navy and Coast Guard joined helicopter search efforts for Staff Sgt. Levi Thomas, a 36 year old off duty Vandenberg security policeman swept from rocks at Point Arguello while fishing. He had served at Vandenberg since 1974 and was from Brinkley Arkansas with a wife and three children.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Point Arguello
Levi Thomas
Thomas
Air Force
U.S. Navy
U.S. Coast Guard
37Th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron
USAF
Brinkley, Ark
Campaign charges fly as Carter and Ford clash coast to coast
President Ford accuses Carter of risking national defense with deep defense cuts while Carter denounces Ford for tolerating the Arab boycott. Carter campaigns from Miami to New York, outlines health care plans, and pledges action on the boycott. Mondale and Dole speak on urban policy as Walters to moderate the final debate in Williamsburg.
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Ford
Jimmy Carter
Carter
White House
Miami
Winston-Salem
N.C
New York City
Amvet
America
Miami Beach
U.S
Israel
American Public Health Association
Harlem
League of Women Voters
Barbara Walters
ABCTV
Williamsburg
Weather Cancels Fourth World Series Game
Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn called off the fourth game between the New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds due to bad weather. The rescheduled fourth game will be played Thursday night at 8 30 p.m. EDT, with the fifth game if needed set for Friday at Yankee Stadium, time to be announced.
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NEW York
UPI
Bowie Kuhn
New York Yankees
Cincinnati Reds
Yankee Stadium
Dangers Cited in SLO Alaska Crude Terminal Plan
Long Beach officials release a $2 million environmental impact study warning a San Luis Obispo site would threaten central California coast ecology and recreation. They favor Long Beach for the $10 million terminal, arguing it is environmentally and economically feasible and would bring funds to city, port, schools, and Los Angeles County.
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Long Beach
Calif
UPI
Alaska
San Luis Obispo
California
Donald Bright
Pismo Beach
Avila Beach
Standard Oil of
Ohio
Port of
California Public Utilities Commission
Standard Oil of Ohio
Los Angeles County
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Steve Schlah
National Alliance of Businessmen
Santa Barbara
Dean
Watergate
Lompoc Senior High School
Dennis Dufour
St. Charles Parish
Frosta
Coast Guard
New Orleans
Guard
Louisiana
Canal
Sheriff Department
VAFB
Arguello
United Press International
Robert Dole
Oklahoma City
Walter Mondale
California League of Cities At
San Diego
Carter-Mondale
Mondale
Air Resources Board
Tom Quinn
Los Angeles Basin
Standard Ohio
Texas
Midwest
Quinn
Standard of Ohio
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