Chowchilla victims recall hours of fear and pain
Jodi Heffington, 12, and other Chowchilla kidnapping victims testified about a 10 to 16 hour confinement in vans and a buried bus, with no food or rest, multiple injuries, and fear of injury as the trial proceeds to determine if physical harm occurred. The defendants face possible life without parole if injuries are found.
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Karin Lisa Len Oakland
Jodi Heffington
Joist
Chowchilla
Riverside Superior Court
Lea Deegan
Deegan
James Schoenfeld
Richard Schoenfeld
Frederick Woods TV
Peninsula
Posabile
Ra Phasic San
Madera
Livermore Eck
Breen
Stom
Livermore
Michael Marshall
Ible
Dutch tycoon Maurits Caransa freed after four million ransom
In VinKeveen near Amsterdam Dutch real estate mogul Maurits Caransa says he negotiated his own release after five days in captivity. He says kidnappers demanded four million dollars stating they only wanted money not politics. He described handcuffed confinement, a dark room, and psychological bargaining to secure the payment.
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Vinkeveen
Netherlands
UPI
Maurits Caransa
Caransa
Amsterdam
Palice
Halland
Cavansa
Fils
Leo
Csransa
Brezhnev proposes ban on all nuclear explosions
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, in a televised 90 minute speech, offered to ban all peaceful and military nuclear explosions and end production of nuclear weapons by all nations. He said a moratorium on peaceful explosions alongside a ban on all nuclear tests should last for a definite period. The move aims to push a comprehensive test ban and reduce parity tensions with the United States.
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Moscow
UPI
Leonid Brezhnev
U.S
Brezhnev
United States
United Sates
Soviet Union
Europe
United Nations
Trezhnev
Russia
Britain
Geneva
Project Succeed shows California backs Chabot program
An array of brief items notes a California assessment that a Chabot program is a success, plus items on BART prize errors, a strike message at Rylock Jart, Humphrey dedication in Washington, a Golden Gate toll protest, disabled benefits from registries, and looming weather with south county clouds and steady temperatures.
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Tritt
Seven Nuestra Familia members arrested in predawn Hayward raid
Seven alleged Nuestra Familia members were arrested at the Travelodge Motel on Foot Hill Boulevard in Hayward during a predawn raid by Hayward and Union City police with state task force aid. Weapons, cash, and vehicles were seized as investigators link the suspects to armed robberies, conspiracies, and possible murders in the Bay Area and San Joaquin Valley.
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Rich Riggs Hayward
Nuestra Familia Prison
Foothill Blvd
Hayward
Union City
Honkie Curdy
Haywarh
Bay Area
San Joaquin Valley
Watsonville
Salinas
Hay Area
San Joaquin
Willie Hill
Hayward Beret
Police Department
Sail Hill
Te Pines Club
Mission Blvd
Hill
Nuestra Familia
Alex Agurdez
the Lopez
Fourth St. Union City
Consule Palice
McCurdy
N Et
State
Fairview area may get study committee
Alameda County Planning Commission votes to form a citizen committee to study Fairview with possible city aid from Hayward. The plan includes reviewing the general plan, traffic, land use, parks, and services, and seeks cooperation with Hayward to address bottlenecks on lower Kelly Street.
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Rita Resare
Hayward
Fairview
Alameda County Planning Commission
City of
Castro Valley
Kiddie Coopers Fight State Over Gopher Formula
RAMONA, UPI. Kidco led by 17 year old Richard Cessna Jr faces state pressure again over its gopher control method claiming government wants to shut them down. Regulators say Kidco lacks valid extermination licenses for underage operators and may probe the secret formula cited in internal memos. The youths refuse to disclose the method, saying it would ruin their business, and they have appealed to Governor Brown and a state senator.
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Kideo
Kidco
Mickie
NeNe
Exte
June Cole
Agriculture Department
Sla
Dickie
Cecil
Uie
Edmund G. Brown Jr
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