Technology seen as key to world problems from space to semiconductors
Hudson Institute analyst Dr. William M. Brown told 700 Motorola engineers that semiconductor tech will drive vast space and computer advances. He cited unlimited space solar power, moon minerals, ultra strong fibers, and space tourism as future growth, with space employment reaching a billion and many becoming millionaires.
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Harris to Seek Hearing Over Bolles Prosecution Shift
Maricopa County Attorney Don Harris plans a special superior court hearing after the Arizona Supreme Court refused to review Gov. Raul Castro’s move removing Don Bolles death case from Harris to the state attorney general Bruce Babbitt testified sought. Adamson trial pending with motions, venue questions, and mistrial amid pretrial media coverage.
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Don Bolles
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Arizona Republic
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Nema
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Long-range flood plan proposed for Paradise Valley and Phoenix area
Engineers from PV, Northeast Scottsdale, and Phoenix will seek a major drainage study for a region between Tatum Boulevard and Pima Road from Indian Bend Wash to the Central Arizona Project. The plan aims to solve flood problems with a district board discussion set for December 6 and a start on study next year.
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Flood Control District Board of Directors
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Citizens Advisory Board
Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department
Washington
SAM seeks Scottsdale-Shea area commercial plan
Scottsdale Associated Merchants requests a specific commercial plan for the Scottsdale Road and Shea Boulevard area to boost patronage. David Newcomer presents petitions from 79 area merchants urging action. The group calls for a merchant and property owner committee to draft an area plan with buffer zones and expansion, facing past resistance from residents and fear of more development.
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Campana
Weekend Warmth and Breezy Skies Forecast
Sunny and slightly warmer today and Thursday with breezy conditions this afternoon. Highs stay in the upper 70s both days and overnight lows cool to the lower 50s.
Arcadia High Book List Debate Highlights Community Split
Arcadia parents pressured the Scotts dale School Board over the Paperback Power course reading list. Supporters defend elective exposure under control while critics call several works vulgar and obscene and question public funding.
School board weighs revised book guidelines amid controversy
Usdane urged new rules to halt adding titles until guidelines are written, list already in course, remove unlisted books, and finish course problems by semester end. He argues censorship is hard but necessary when readings appear controversial. No action taken. proposal may return. The course lists about 1,600 titles with 30 on a sensational popularity list. About 90 percent of Arcadia juniors and seniors take the course.
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Scottsdale
Arcadia
Charles Jones
Jones
Charles Summers
Round Table
Alan Kyman
Kyman
Ron St. John
St. John
Aaron Rosen
Donald Swanson
Paul Streich
Language Arts Review Commission
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Personal income gains lift US October growth
Washington reports October personal income rose at a 9.2 percent annual rate to 1401.9 billion dollars, aided by higher pay and benefits for federal employees, up from 5.5 percent and 6.2 billion dollars in September.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Bomb threat evacuates exhibit in Moscow park
A bomb threat at the U.S. Bicentennial exhibit in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park led to the evacuation of about 1,000 Russians. A delayed Soviet bomb squad arrival kept the show closed as crowds waited in near freezing weather.
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U.S
Sokolniki Park
Lebanese Christian Warlords Send Emissary to Carter
Charles Malik, former UN ambassador and AUB professor, will explain the Christian position in Lebanon's 19 month civil war to U.S. President-elect Jimmy Carter.
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Beirut
Lebanon
U.S
Jimmy Carter
Charles Malik
United Nations
American University of Beirut
Record beef prices seen for 1977 by USDA economist
Washington officials forecast higher meat costs with beef retail prices rising to a record average of 1.49 dollars per pound in 1977. Agriculture Department economist Richard J. Crom of the Economic Research Service warned consumers that though prices had fallen from last year, beef costs are headed upward.
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Agriculture Department
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Economic Research Service
Carter Meets Democratic Leaders in Lovejoy Summit
President elect Jimmy Carter and Vice President elect Walter Mondale hosted top House and Senate Democrats in Lovejoy Georgia to plan how the new administration can work with Congress. The leaders traveled from Plains to discuss legislative strategy and passing the campaign agenda.
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Senate
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Walter F. Mondale
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Studies show long term unemployed remain jobless after benefits end
Washington reports two government studies indicating most people who exhaust unemployment benefits remain unemployed a year later. The findings counter claims that the long term unemployed “ride the system” at government expense.
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