Oakland draft board evicts antiwar troop unit
Bay Area brief reports the Oakland draft board evicted an antiwar group operating a counseling service inside its office. Two Berkeley women, Regina Wurst and Fran Best, were arrested for trespassing after ignoring a warning to leave. Bail set at 500 dollars each. The Berkeley Peace Brigade had established the information and resistance service a month earlier.
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Qarland
Calif
UPI
Oakland Draft Board
Selective Service
Regina Wurst
A Mills
Fran Best
Berkeley
Truft Board
Revolutionary Army claims Oakland airboard bombing attack
A group calling itself The Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility for bombing Foster & Kleiser billboards near the Oakland Army Terminal. A letter to KSAN denounced pig-think and warned Foster & Kleiser, part of Metro Media, Inc. The blast at 707 p.m. damaged a terminal area including a receptionist desk, switchboard, and stained glass, with $40,000 in damage. A separate Sunday blast hit Sequoia Elementary School. another damaged a San Francisco Southern Pacific trestle. No injuries or leads announced.
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Oakland
Revolutionary Army
Doster & Kleiser
Bill Ooard
Oakland Army Terminal
Babylon
KSAN
Foster & Kleiser
Metromedia, Inc
Jetter
Oatland Army Terminal
FBI
Sear
Sequoiia Elenentary School
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
Jacksons father urges crime hall in San Francisco
Lester Jackson, father of two slain sons, calls for a one year moratorium on black crime to protect the black race and forge a new image. He cites the killings of George at San Quentin on Aug 21 and Jonathan on Aug 17, 1970, urging unity to confront biased law enforcement and judges.
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San Francisco
UPI
Lester Jackson
Hwo
Jackson
George
San Quentin
Jonathan
Marini County
Pasadena
Soledad trial adds third judge for murder case
In San Francisco a third judge was named to preside over the murder trial of the Soledad Brothers. Judge Lee Vavaris, elevated from municipal court six months ago by Gov. Reagan, will handle the case. Co defendants Claudelthc and Fieela Drumgo face trial Sept. 20 on charges tied to the guard’s death at Soledad prison in 1970. George Jackson died Aug. 21 during a flood escape attempt at San Quentin.
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San Francisco
UPA
Claulehethc
Fieela Drumgo
John V. Mills
Soledad
George Jackson
San Quentin Prison
Miss Davis
Jonathan
UCLA
Insiiterer
Eliips
Solesdad Stile
Guards push for new max security prison at San Quentin
Ken Brown of the California Correctional Officers Association says a small inmate segment desiring self destruction justifies a maximum security facility. Leaders met with Warden Louis Nelson and director Raymond Pracunier at San Quentin. He cites 7 percent of inmates driving violence and challenges any investigation into guard abuse amid the Aug 21 deaths during an alleged escape attempt by Soledad brother George Jackson.
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State Corrections
Raymond Pracunier
San Quentin
Soledad
George Jackson
Surviving seabirds released after oil spill rescue
In Richmond California the last surviving sea birds from the San Francisco Bay oil spill were released after months of care at the Richard son Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. Dinah Bonne and International Bird Rescue Center volunteers led the release of 11 white wing seaters, noting the birds began swimming and diving immediately. State officials say about 7000 birds were caught in bunkering oil from January spill near the Golden Gate Bridge. 4200 were rescued, 1300 cared for in Richmond, and around 3400 died.
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Richmond
Calif
San Francisco ‘Bay of
Dinah Bonne
Richardson Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
International Bird Rescue Center
Berkeley
Bob Steiner
Standard Oil of California
Gallen Gate Bridge
Bay
Richmond Bird Care Center
Identity of dead man sought in Redwood City case
Police investigated a decomposed body found in a gulch near Pescadero wrapped in a mattress and rope. Officials doubted it matches attorney Stephen Bingham given height and tattoo differences. The body’s identity and cause of death remained undetermined, with several missing-person possibilities under review.
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Redwood City
Loraner
Conwoner
Paul Jensen
Stephen Bingham
Soledad
George Jackson
San Quentin
Jackson
Aly Tempt
Jensen
Bingham
Ensen
Amateda
Lin Waa
Gun Battle Wounding Deputies During LA Stakeout
Two plainclothes Los Angeles County deputies were shot during a stakeout when misidentification led to a fatal- looking exchange at a home in east Los Angeles. One deputy, John Hawksly, 21, was critically wounded. Gerald Boyd, 25, sustained an arm wound and was hospitalized. Deputy J. Roger Wagnon, waiting at the scene, opened fire first after misreading approaching figures as suspects. no one else was hurt.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Sheriff's Department
Hawksly
Gerald Boyd
J. Roger Wagnon
Wagnon
Hrawksly
Boyd
Wignon
Building workers back on job in Northern California
Heavy construction workers resume duties across Northern California after a tentative Washington DC settlement ending the Teamsters strike. Ratification votes will be held this week among 17 locals. The proposed two year contract with AGC and Excavating and Grading Contractors of California calls for a 0.0% wage rise per year, up from 4.85 to 6.21 dollars an hour, plus fringe benefits and improved grievance procedures. The plan reclassifies independent dump truck owner operators who would join and pay dues if approved by the National Labor Relations Board this month.
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San Francisco
California
Washington, D.C
Teamsters
Associated General Contractors
Oakland teachers back pact restoring 145 positions
The Oakland Education Association voted to endorse the proposed contract for the city schools while the AFT local failed to reach quorum. The package restores 145 teacher posts funded partly by a $31 million federal grant, shifting priorities with no planned strike.
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Oakland
UPI
Oakland Education Association
American Federation of Teachers Local
AFT
Ed Chase
OEA
Case
Cave
Dhef Jordan
Dock strike talks continue near settlement in West Coast
Negotiators from the 16,000 member International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union and 120 Pacific Maritime Association employers held closed door sessions on Labor Day, signaling possible progress toward ending a strike that began July 1 and halted West Coast ports, delaying ships and disrupting business.
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San Francisco
International
ILWU
Police officer suspended over TV promotion in Redwood City
Patrolman Michael Luddy received seven days suspension without pay after he used his patrol car in a television spot backing a record urging community support for police. Deputy chief A Stansfield said Luddy violated orders by appearing in uniform and linking the department to the record Lonely Men in Blue by a San Francisco real estate agent, which has sold thousands of copies locally.
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Redwood City
Calif
UPN
Michael Luddy
Dr. A. Stansfield
Luddy
San Francisco
Davis murder trial moved after San Quentin violence
Attorneys for Angela Davis argued the San Quentin prison escape killings on Aug 2 1971 have poisoned the atmosphere and demand a change of venue for her scheduled Sept 2 1971 murder kidnapping and conspiracy trial in Marin County. They say a fair trial is impossible there and seek postponement or relocation.
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San Rapareo
Calit
UPI
San Questin
Angela Davis
Slovens of Peririal Rcations
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Nixon
National Labor Relations Board
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