Supervisors urge vote schedule for State Water Project bond
The Board of Supervisors urged the County Water Agency and OEQ to place a bond issue for State Water Project financing on the November 1978 General Election ballot. They asked for proposals to create a master environmental impact statement, budgeting about $200,000, with $60,000 already set aside and $140,000 potentially covered by contingency funds.
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James P. Sweeney
Board of Supervisors
County Water Agency
Ofice of Environmental Quality
OEQ
Water Agency
Santa Barbara County
Albert F. Reynolds
Charles Lawrance
Lawrance
Bill Wallace
Lompoc
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Wallace
Vandenberg
Cachuma
Twitchell Lakes
Robert Hedlund
Scheel urges worldwide treaties to fight terrorism
West German President Walter Scheel, at Hanns-Martin Schleyer funeral guarded by 750 police, urged global leaders to quickly conclude conventions against terrorism. He warned that flexible resolve is needed as terrorists threaten to widen the conflict and praised the decision not to release imprisoned members tied to hijackings and killings.
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Bonn
West Germany
UPI
Walter Scheel
Hanns-Martin Schleyer
Ito
Scheel
Stuttgart
St. Eberhard
Schleyer
Lufthansa
Europe
Japan
Soviet Union
German Democratic Republic
Andreas Baader
Ford recalls 63,300 vehicles for fire and steering risks
Ford Motor Co recalls 63,300 autos and trucks due to potential engine fires from improper hose clamps on 351 and 400 CID V-8 engines and a steering loss risk from mis-torqued pitman arm attachments in 13,600 1978 F-series trucks. No accidents reported. repairs free of charge.
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Livonia, Mich
Stephen P. Geoffrey
Ford
Mercury, Ltd
Geoffrey
Geofrey
Air Force funds shuttle platform design contracts
The Air Force awarded two contracts totaling 1.5 million dollars to Martin Marietta Aerospace of Denver and General Dynamics of San Diego each for a pre prototype antenna like platform atop the space shuttle orbiter. The design features a surface 15 feet wider and 60 feet longer for servicing rendezvous docking and testing to be assembled in space by remote control.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Air Force
Martin Marietta Aerospace
Denver
General Dynamics
San Diego
Carter urges conference on energy bill clash with liberals
President Carter pressed lawmakers to send the energy bill to conference with the House version, seeking a stripped down package to push quick action. Senate liberals prepared to fight the tax credit heavy proposal as Finance Committee aims to blend the House and Senate bills for a final form.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Carter
House
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Senate Energy Committee
Finance Committee
Russell Long
Biko death inquest to be prepared soon
Police Minister Jimmy Kruger announced a preliminary investigation into Steve Biko’s death is complete and an inquest will proceed. Meanwhile security police detained 13 blacks in Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg over the past 36 hours, including Ntsitisi Moremi, amid ongoing Eastern Cape unrest tied to anti-government protests.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
UPI
Jimmy Kruger
Steve Biko
Kruger
Port Elizabeth
Ntsitisi Moremi
The
Christian Institute
Soweto
Col
Piet Goosen
Eastern Cape Province
New Brighton
Association For Science and Technology
Nune Mgoduka
Coastal Fog Clears With Beach Partial Clearing Through Wednesday
Weather reports fog on the coastal strip clearing back to beaches after mid morning through Wednesday with partial clearing on beaches in afternoons. Surf rises tonight. Temperature little changed. Highs 68 to 75 inland, lows 50s. Wednesday tides include high 5.9 ft at 10:01 a.m. and 4.4 ft at 10:50 p.m.. lows 1.1 ft at 3:55 a.m. and 0.1 ft at 4:45 p.m.
Glimpses Mark Yeager Buys Feeder After Hummingbird Trap
Glimpses Mark Yeager purchases a hummingbird feeder after spotting a hummingbird trap ped in the Camera Shop. Clint Inglee receives a payout of 5000 pennies from a baseball pool run by the Lompoc Unified School District office.
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Mark Yeager
Clint Inglee
Lompoc Unified School District
Four charged in Cuban raid plot by private vessel
A federal grand jury in Miami indicted Pedro Gil Armando Lopez Estrada Juan Raimundo Arce and Isidoro Pineiro Castineira for conspiring from May to August to mount a military and naval expedition against Cuba. They allegedly planned to export a 20mm cannon a .50 cal machine gun a .30 cal machine gun and two Browning automatic rifles aboard their private ship.
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Washington
UPI
Cuba
Justice Department
U.S. District Court
Miami
Pedro Gil
Armando Lopez Estrada
Juan Raimundo Arce
Isidoro Pineiro Castineira
United States
Planning Commission seeks probe into advisory panel impact
Lompoc Planning Commission urged a City Council inquiry into how the General Plan Advisory Committee affects Lompoc's sphere of influence and the rural urban line. The motion, supported by Commissioners Whitaker and Peto, followed GPAC questions on jurisdiction and LAFCO implications.
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Lompoc
Community Development Department
General Plan Advisory Committee
LAFCO
GPAC
Lompoc Valley
Commission
William Fick
Fick
Vandenberg Village
Mission Hills
Britt Johnson
Board of Supervisors of Advisory Committee
Santa Ynez
Perkins
E.C. Stevens
Lafco Board
County General Plan
Robert L. Hedlund
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Ford Motor Co
USAF
Jackson
la Purisima Mission
Santa Maria
Biko
Planning Commission
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