Nixon signs law for dope control
President Nixon signed a major narcotics bill aimed at cutting drug use and expanding federal powers. The law increases agents and broadens jurisdiction, with provisions on rehabilitation and a no knock clause. Critics call some parts repressive and possibly unconstitutional.
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Arrested Brother of James Earl Ray Tied to Bank Robbery
John Larry Ray, alleged brother of James Earl Ray the MLK assassin, was arrested yesterday in a $50,000 bank robbery case. Police hunted three suspected accomplices in a rural Northwest St. Louis County area for the St. Peters bank holdup.
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James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
St. Louis County
St. Peters
Public housing rule challenged in Supreme Court
Seventeen groups including inter racial organizations petitioned the Supreme Court to strike down a California Constitution provision that requires voter approval for public housing projects. A special federal court in San Francisco ruled the 1959 amendment unconstitutional last April, in San Jose and San Mateo County, and the case is under review with other states showing similar legislation.
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UPI
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Virginia
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FTC allows student consumer group to intervene in case
The Federal Trade Commission approved a delicate experiment permitting a law student group, SOUP, to join a Firestone Theatre Rubber Co. case alleging deceptive pricing and safety claims. The move lets an official consumer party present witnesses and seek remedies if Firestone is found guilty, under narrow conditions and probation.
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UPI
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Firestone Theatre Rubber Co
Commission
Joseph Martin Jr
John FY. Banzhaf
George Washington University
Unfair Practices Inc
SOUP
Firestone
Martin
Benzhal
Underworld Linked to Smut, New York Says Mob Control
New York state pornography hearings concluded that organized crime dominates production and distribution of smut. Chairman Paul Curran named the DiCavalcante and Lucchese families as key publishers and distributors, with underworld figures allegedly defrauding the government of taxes.
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New York
New York State Commission
Paul J. Curran
Robert DiBernardo
DiCavalcante “Crime
Joseph Broccchini
Lucchese
Curran
Underworld
Strike talks reach critical phase at GM bargaining table
GM chief Marl Bramblett says negotiations with the United Auto Workers have entered a critical stage. He warns that without rapid progress within two weeks, auto production could resume slowly in November, affecting about 400,000 workers nationwide and causing multistate economic losses. Bramblett cites wage losses, plant idling, and a shared strike fund as the negotiators push toward a settlement.
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UPI
General Motors
United Auto Workers
Marl Bramblett
Bramblett
Bay Area
California
Goode
UAW
Dent Leonard Woodcock
Woodcock
Auto pollution to end by 1975 says GM chief
Edward N. Cole of General Motors predicted the automobile would be eliminated as a major air pollution factor by 1975 at a panel during the Financial Executives Institute conference. He cautioned that the problem may not be solved completely and further reductions could follow in later years.
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UPI
Edward N. Cole
General Motors
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Financial Executives Institute
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Army strips general of two honors for fabrications
The U S Army says brigadier general Eugene P Forrester has two decorations revoked due to fabricated citations though the general was not found to be aware of the fraud. The move marks the first time a general officer has had awards revoked in Vietnam. Forrester, 44, held the Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross earned in combat before serving as an assistant with the 1st Cavalry Division.
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Vietnam
Forrester
Santos
LI. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Bomb tips delay United flight and Bay Area Crusade debate
Anonymous bomb tips halted a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles, prompting a search and an evacuation at a maintenance shed, with no bombs found. Separately, the Peace Officers Research Association of California urged reexamining support for the United Bay Area Crusade, opposing funding for Stiles Hall YMCA Berkeley and several legal aid groups while defending Stiles Hall’s 40 years of free speech on the UC campus.
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Fremont
United Air Lines
Los Angeles
United
Wera
San Francisco International Airport
UPI
Peace Officers Research Association of California
United Bay Area Crusade
Charles Plummer
Berkeley
Runaway fishing boat captured off California coast
Coast Guard cutter Cape Wash caught a 45 foot trawler Darling after an all night pursuit about 70 miles off the Ble Sur coast south of Monterey. Two men jumped and were picked up by Sandra Jo and taken to Morto Bay. identified as David Lee Brownling, 24, Newport Oregon, and Giles Manwaring, Santa Monica California.
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Morto Bay
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Ing
Newport
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Santa Monica
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San Francisco Delays Put 47 Police Cars In Storage
Police cars delivered without radios for San Francisco were ordered early and arrived sooner than expected but remain out of service. Frank Garkns of the Department of Electricity expects radios by mid November and installation finished by mid December. The cars sit in a storage yard awaiting proper equipment.
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San Francisco
UPI
Frank Garkns
Department of Electricity
Trisk group to picket Black Watch in San Francisco
The Irish-American Action Association says it will picket Wednesday when the British Black Watch regimental band performs in Civic Auditorium. Spokesmen at two news conferences in Moray accused the regiment of terrorism and brutality during violence in Northern Ireland last summer.
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UPI
Irish-American Action Association
Black Watch
Civic Auditorium
Association
Moray
Northern Ireland
Pacifi c Gas & Electric workers back on jobs in San Francisco
An overtime complaint led to binding arbitration Monday as 115 PG&E employees returned to work after the IB E W was suspended Sunday for refusing overtime. New contract talks proceed with union agent Frank Quadros stating the dispute centers on an agency shop demand for all employees to join.
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UPT
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Frank Quadros
New Airport Director Post Created at S F Airport
San Francisco officials approve a new airport director post along with three other top level positions at San Francisco International Airport. The salary for the new post is 99000 per year. Current airport manager George Hansen earns 32000. It is unclear if Hansen will be promoted as several candidates are under consideration.
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UPN
San Francisco International Airport
New
Airport Commission
George Hansen
Hansen
New Short Takeoff Flight Service Begins in California
Experimental air service launches between Candlestick Park lot in San Francisco and Cal Expo Fairgrounds in Sacramento. Four round trips daily sponsored by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce run until November 28. Flight time is 35 minutes using 1500 foot runway for boxy twin engine planes. The chamber aims to place runways in city cores.
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UPS
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Candlestick Park
Cal Fixpo
Sacramento
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Servic
Alameda man receives life term for Reno cabbie slaying
John Lee Layton, 28, Alameda California, was sentenced by District Judge John Agee Brielli to life in prison without parole for the first degree shotgun slaying of cabdriver Charles Anderson, 87, found April 28 in a taxi near Reno. Layton plans to appeal citing inadequate defense counsel.
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UPI
John Lee Atom
Alameda
California
Reno
John Agebrielli
Layton
Charles Ander
Son
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Laton
Body of slain court reporter found in apartment
In SacHamento AP report the body of 28 year old Nancy Bemmallack a court reporter formerly of Grass Valley who worked in Judge Robert Coles Superior Court was found in her second floor Bell Street apartment. Her fiancé Harris Laramy chief deputy public defender told police he left her at about 1130 p.m. Sunday. Neighbors reported hearing a woman crying around 230 a.m. Monday. The body was found around 1000 a.m. Monday.
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Grass Valley
Superior Court
Robert Cole
Harris Laramy
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