Death penalty ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court
Washington reports the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment and thus unconstitutional. The decision spared about 600 inmates on death row but varied on future limits. Justices split into camps with four dissents. other major rulings addressed grand jury immunity and bribery cases involving lawmakers.
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UPL
Supreme Court
Heath
Seulder
House
Daniel Brewster
D-Md
William ©. Douglas
Wiliam’ J) Brenan, Jr
Potter Stewart
Byroy R. White
Thurgood Marshall
Burger
Harry, A. Blackmun
Lewis Fi Pow
Douglas
Stewart
White
Unionist Mixes Prostitution Tally With Union Funds in California
The article describes a union headquarters at 276 Somerset in Castiro Valley near Stan ton Elementary, with the International Brotherhood of Professional Services and a second union, the International Brotherhood of Service Station Operators, both housed there. Charlen D. Morley, 40, Oakland, a conservative Republican, serves as secretary treasurer and has publically displayed a Barry Goldwater sign. A June 7 panel hearing is noted for the Backpage section.
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Castiro Valley
Somerset Avenue
Tabor Union
Stanton Elementary
International Brotherhood of Professional Services
Somerset
Nevada
Charlen D. Morley
Oakland
Barry Goldwater
Union
Morley
March Fong
7Th Assembly
McGovern Loses California Delegates On Credentials Panel
The Democratic Credentials Committee stripped McGovern of 15 of California's 27 convention seats, voting 73 to 65 to award them to Humphrey and others in proportion to their primary share. If sustained, McGovern may fall well below the 4,500 votes needed for the nomination, amid challenges to the state's winner take all rule. The issue could go to courts as federal judges have weighed in, while debate among credentials members grew heated over democratic principles and party reform.
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Wasitington
George McGovern
California
Tluberh Hl
Humphrey
McGovern
Edmunds. Muskie
Hey M. Jackson
Shirley Chisholm
Whey
McCovern
Joseph A. Califano Jr
Gas tax rise to take effect July 1 in California
The article notes a new state 3 percent sales tax on gasoline starting Saturday July 1, with Bay Area/BART counties adding 5 percent. Motorists face higher pump prices as the tax applies to the full gasoline price, atop existing 4 cents federal excise and 2 cents state motor vehicle tax.
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Bay Area
BART
Price control expands to fresh fish and vegetables
President Nixon signs an executive order removing the exemption on raw agricultural products from price controls after the first sale. Fresh vegetables fish and other raw goods will now fall under Price Commission rules at wholesale and retail levels. The action aims to discipline price markups and margins across the food processing chain.
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Washington
Nixon
Bay Area
Price Commission
Donald Rumsfeld
Post of Living Council
NG Enthus
Asm Horisfeld
Reagan discloses Nixon veto on high Sierra road project
Reagan opposed a 2.7 mile dirt road toward Red's Meadow near Devils Postpile, joining Nixon in blocking the trans Sierra highway. Nixon ruled the paving would harm the environment, cancelling plans and framing a wilderness classification effort to halt the project.
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Summit Meadow
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Lady Toa
Red's Meadow Pack Station
Devils Postpile National Monument
Mammoth Lakes
Reagan
Sierra Club
Trans
Reagay
Rip
San Joaquin River
White House
Nixon
Hayward union wins agency shop in wage settlement
Local 380 of the United Public Employee Union reached a wage and benefits deal with Hayward city officials. The 16 month contract includes an 8 percent raise effective July and introduces an agency shop requirement for non members to pay union dues or join. About 20 to 30 of roughly 125 city workers in maintenance and operations are non members. The pact marks the first agency shop in the Bay Area for municipal employees.
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Will Smith
Hayward
United Public Employee Union
Bay Area
Dorothy Christiansen
California Weather Outlook Turns Cooler Tomorrow
The forecast calls for cooler temperatures across the state with highs in the 70s to morrow and tonight's lows in the 50s. Expect fair weather with low clouds and fog night and morning, clearing before noon. More weather on page 2.
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California
Special prayers for paralyzed athlete Tim Sullivan
Fremont in a night long interdenominational vigil at Mission Valley Church will run from 8 am to 1 30 pm with psalms gospel music by the Guerran family and testimonies from those cured of injuries. Tim Sullivan, Kennedy High School star, has been paralyzed from the chest since a fall seven weeks ago. He remains under care at Kaiser Hospital Redwood City after spinal surgery and earlier complications including breathing stoppage and lung clots.
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Ierner
Tim Sullivan
Mission Valley Church
Misssion Blvd
San Jose
Guerran
Kennedy High School
Kaiser Hospital
Redwood City
Tim
Mary Sullivan
Stevanson Blyd
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