Kissinger Faces Late Start in Africa Mission
Secretary of State Kissinger flew to Tanzania to begin an African shuttle amid cautious notes from the Tanzanian press that he is arriving too late to broker a settlement in southern Africa's racial conflict. Washington framed the trip as a test of diplomacy with Namibia and Rhodesia on the table.
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Zurich
Switzerland
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
Tanzania
Africa
Kissinger
Dar Es Salaam
Daily News
Black Africa
Pretoria
South Africa
Salisbury
Rhodesia
United States
Washington
Ford
South West Africa
Namibia
UN Delays Vietnam Membership Vote Amid U.S. Election
The UN Security Council postponed Vietnam's bid for UN membership until after the U.S. elections at France's suggestion. Ambassador Mansur Rashid Kikhia announced the deferral to November, noting the General Assembly will discuss the matter in its 31st session. Vietnam's mission agreed to the delay.
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United Nations
UPI
Security Council
Vietnam
U.S
France
Mansur Rashid Kikhia
Libya
General Assembly
Kikhia
Ford
Auto pact by deadline impossible says Woodcock
United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock declares a new Ford contract by the strike deadline is absolutely impossible. The union readies a 170000 member walkout across 22 states, while Ford refuses extension and offers a third proposal 30 hours before deadline amid stalled talks.
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Detroit
UPI
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
Ford Motor Co
Woodcock
No. 2
Ford World Headquarters
Dearborn
Dates set for Ford Carter debates and audience plans
The second and third nationally televised Ford Carter debates are scheduled for October six and October twenty two at undetermined venues. Sens. Dole and Mondale will hold a separate debate the week of October eleven. The opening Ford Carter clash is set for September twenty third at the Walnut Street Theater Philadelphia.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Walter Mondale
D-Minn
Carter
Walnut Street
Philadelphia
Senate Acts to Bar Discrimination in Revenue Sharing Funds
Senate votes 60 to 15 and 59 to 16 to add anti discrimination rules to a $41 billion revenue sharing bill through Sept 1982. Prohibits discrimination by religion age or handicap in programs using federal funds. House bill extends funds to Sept 1980 with no inflation add. Senate also allows attorneys fees in suits against programs. Biden opposes pre set annual appropriations. Local governments urge advance pledge for planning.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
House
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Treasury Department
Russell B. Long
D-La
Gravel
Joseph R. Biden
D-Del
Congress
Biden
Long
Bob Packwood
R-Ore
William Scott
R-Va
Fire Department cutbacks raise rural response and insurance concerns
The Board of Supervisors heard from insurance agent Robert Lilley that cutting the County Fire Department to two full time men per engine could slow rural response times and push insurance rates higher for residents in Vandenberg Village Mission Hills and surrounding areas. Lilley endorsed maintaining current staffing, while Supervisor Beattie supported keeping outlying stations fully manned to ensure mutual protection.
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Board of Supervisors
Vandenberg Village
Mission Hills
Robert C. Lilley
Lompoc
John Sherman
Lilley
Bob Halliburton
Sherman
Francis H. Beattie
Santa Ynez Valley
Moscow blames Japan and US over MIG 25 defection
The Soviet Union denounces Japan for not returning pilot Viktor Belenko and the top secret MIG 25 after his Sept. 6 landing. Tass accuses Washington of inviting the airman and suggests possible coercion. Belenko is now in the United States.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Japan
United States
Tass
Viktor Belenko
Belenko
Glimpses Lompoc Museum Director Gets Favorable Book Review
Anita Nygaard, director of the Lompoc museum, receives a brief positive review for Earthclock A Narrative Calendar of Nature's Seasons in the San Francisco Sunday Chronicle and Examiner. Forecast calls for morning low clouds with partial afternoon clearing through Wednesday, highs in the 70s, and tide details for Wednesday.
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Lompoc Museum
Anita Nygaard
San Francisco Sunday Chronicle
Examiner
Syrians mass on highway toward Beirut amid Lebanon war
Syrian troops mass on the Damascus to Beirut highway with reinforcements moving toward Safar to keep a military option open. The clash widens as leftist and Christian militias fight near Beirut and Tripoli while Arab leaders seek peace talks ahead of Elias Sarkis’s inauguration.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Damascus
Christian Phalangist Party
Voice of Lebanon
Bekan
Safar
Syria
Tripoli
Palestine Liberation Organization
Elias Sarkis
Cairo
Sarkis
Arab League
East
West
Peace Lutheran Church wins bid for four homes near Ryan Park
Lloyd Hanson of Peace Lutheran Church secured planning commission support to build four single family homes on church land across Cypress Avenue from Ryan Park. The commission, 4-0, dismissed staff objections about park noise and approved related actions including a large environmental impact plan for 110 homes on 27 acres near Central and Barton avenues.
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Vaughn Proctor
Ryan Park
Lloyd Hanson
Peace Lutheran Church
Ocean Ave
Community Development Department
Cypress Avenue
R Street
Ryan Park Athletic Fields
Commission
William Fick
William Paulin
Robert Swarner
John Peto
Jean Jacoby
Hanson
Jack Lam
Verle F. Brewer
South
O St
Brewer
O Street
Lam
Planning Commission
William James Hopson
S. Sixth St
Central
Barton Avenues
First Street
Santa Ynez River
B St
Pine Ave
Alan Davidson
Shuttle pilots urge routine spaceflight for practical use
Astronauts Gordon Fullerton Fred Haise and Richard Truly say the space shuttle aims to end the gee whiz era and fly routinely. The reusable vehicle is to make at least 100 orbital trips, enabling payloads to aid life on Earth. First flight is planned for March 1979 from Cape Canaveral with Edwards AFB landing.
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Houston
UPI
Earth
Gordon
Gordon’ Fullerton
Fullerton
Fred Haise
Richard Truly
Johnson Space Center
California
Haise
Truly
Joseph Engle
Cape Canaveral
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
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Beshir Gemayel
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