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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1977
Page
1
The Legislature investigates charges that moonlighting state college and university professors incur unearned salaries and retirement benefits costing taxpayers. A subcommittee of Ways and Means and the State Teachers' Retirement System examine complaints from private and public institutions.
California Senate passed a measure to restore the death penalty after a nearly two hour session. The bill moves to the Assembly Criminal Justice Committee for April 11 review as opponents warn of deterrence failures. Senators Deukmejian Briggs Robbins Dunlap weigh in on justice and risk. Associated Press reports Catholic teachers ratify a pact ending a 22 day Los Angeles strike affecting 24 high schools.
The Senate sent a reorganization bill to the White House without dissent authorizing President Carter to submit plans that realign department functions. The measure allows reorganizations to take effect unless rejected within 61 days but bars abolishing departments or enforcement programs and prevents dissolving independent regulatory agencies or transferring all their functions.
The Los Angeles County Health Services Department ordered all public and private schools to exclude students not immunized against measles by May 2, with medical or relief grounds as the only exceptions. Health Services Director Liston Witherhill cited a rising epidemic and at least two deaths since October. The Board of Supervisors asked officials to draft a law to let the county review immunization records and penalize districts failing to exclude unprotected students.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said Washington’s arm control package was unfair and inconsistent and rejected claims that Moscow spurned a broad disarmament proposal. He insisted no such proposal was ever offered and criticized U S rights rhetoric as harming negotiations. Vance defended his package in Bonn and planned briefings in Paris.
A DEA and multiple agencies seized heroin with an estimated value of 2 million after a six month probe. Six subpoenas were served in Gardena Lennox and southwest Los Angeles with two arrests at 1622 W Segundo Blvd Gardena and four at Felix Club and Bar 1559 W El Segundo Blvd yielding nine handguns four rifles one shotgun and about 1000 dollars of cocaine. Names of detained were not released.
Hanafi chief Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, free since the hostage crisis, is jailed after a court wiretap captured him making threats. His son in law is arrested on a federal weapons charge. warrants seize two Maryland homes with guns. Police raid Hyattsville and Kensington. three men charged with carrying deadly weapons. Treasury also arrests Abdul Aziz, Hanafi spokesman, on firearms charges.
Light showers fell in the Long Beach area on Thursday evening but no measurable rain was recorded. The National Weather Service reported traces in Pasadena San Gabriel Mt Wilson and Lake Arrowhead with a high of 63 and a low of 42. Mostly clear skies and warmer temperatures were predicted through the weekend.
A report notes an independent death case where the author faces a guilty plea in a kidnapping and murder attempt. The article references related indictments sought against FBI officials over break ins and mentions broader themes on substance use and auto industry trends across several pages.
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