Carter Tours bleak South Bronx during UN visit
President Carter with housing secretary and Mayor Beame toured the blighted South Bronx area devastated by arson and crime. He urged a study to decide what to salvage or tear down and suggested converting unrecoverable blocks into recreational facilities. The stop began on Washington Avenue near 168th Street in Claremont.
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Abraham D. Beame
South Bronx
United Nations General Assembly
Patricia Hareretary
Claude Briley
Jimmy
Bronx
Briley
Pear
Fort Apache
Abraham Beame
HUD
Patricia Harris
Watson Disabled After Board Ruling on County Assessor
The Los Angeles County Board of Retirement ruled County Assessor Philip Watson unable to continue his duties due to a heart condition and granted a non service connected disability retirement of 20 172 a year. The panel kept open a future vote on a possible job related disability retirement around 25 000 annually. Watson reacted from his West Covina home calling it a relief while noting the board ignored its medical expert.
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Los Angeles
Watson
Weat Covina
Alvin Markovitz
USC
Weather forecast brief for regional areas
Tonight and Thursday forecast mostly fair in the LB area with a low of 62 and high of 78. Mountain region expected fair with a low of 46. Desert area shows partly fair with a low of 58 and high around 10.
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L.B
Lockheed Machinists Threaten Southern California Walkout
More than 8,500 machinists at Lockheed plants in Burbank Palmdale Sunnyvale and Marietta may strike after talks on pay pensions health benefits and seniority stalled. The walkout could affect 19,000 Lockheed workers nationwide while unions seek a 1 percent raise first year 7 percent second year and 5 percent third year.
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Batin
Burbank
Palmdale
Santa Monica
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
TAM
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Lockheed Missiles and Space Company
Sunnyvale
Lockheed Georgia Company
Marietta
Carter Dayan agree on Mideast talks formula in Geneva plan
Israeli Foreign Minister Dayan said he and President Carter reached a tentative formula for reconvening a Geneva peace conference. The plan requires Israeli cabinet approval and acceptance by Arab neighbors, with 1972 and 1947 UN resolutions guiding the talks. Egypt urged caution as Palestinians withheld confirmation of side deals.
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Mideast
New York
Moshe Dayan
Middle East
Geneva
Israel
White House
Jody Powell
United States
Menahem Begin
Foreign Ministry
U.N
Anwar Sadat
PLO
Yasir Arafat
Aspmat
Carter energy plan in shambles says Finance Committee
Sen Abraham Ribicoff warns Carter energy plan faces deep Senate trouble and should be withdrawn for redrafting as Democrats seek alternatives. Deregulation of natural gas prices passed the Senate 50 to 46 despite White House opposition.
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Carter
Senate
Stnior Democrat
Senate Finance Committee
Abraham Ribicoff
Congress
Ribicoff
D-Conn
U.S
Senate Energy Committee
House
Conference Committee
Call for a sweeping overhaul of federal drug laws
HEW Secretary Joseph Califano urged a top to bottom revision of the federal drug law at a Public Citizen Forum. He called for ending secrecy in government drug proceedings, speeding new approvals, removing dangerous drugs, and making safety data public. He noted FDA resource limits and supported transparency and reduced research repetition.
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Washington
HEW
Joseph A. Califano Jr
Ralph Nader
Public Citizen Forum
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Califano
Harlem youth battles Channel two-way swim record
A Manhattan Beach youth attempts a two way swim to break the Catalina Channel record amid cold and exhaustion. The story notes related pages and other regional items such as Atlanta mayoral races and Long Beach dock worker arbitration updates.
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Hanhattan Beach
Catatina Channel
Lighter Mistaken for Gun Wounds Local Man
A 28 year old North Long Beach man was shot and critically wounded when Denise Keagy of Bellflower mistook a derringer for a cigarette lighter and fired. Police said the incident appeared accidental and continues to be investigated at Memorial Hospital.
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North Long Beach
Ralph L. Howard
Silva St
Memorial Mospital
Terry Walton
Ron Nelson
Denise Keagy
Bellflower
Howard
Walton
Nelson
Silent coed cited for contempt in Ann Arbor mayoral vote case
In Ann Arbor Circuit Court a 21 year old University of Michigan student was cited for contempt and handcuffed for minutes when she refused to reveal her voting history in a mayoral election appeal. The trial concerns a one vote margin and an allegedly mis marked absentee ballot.
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Ann Arbor
Circuit Court
James Keiley
Michigan Coed
Ann Arbor Township
Bliss
Vanhattam
Ann, Arbor
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