Death Penalty Seen Unlikely for RFK Killer
As the Sirhan Bishara Sirhan trial nears closure the likelihood of a death sentence decreases. The defense maintains Sirhan should live, with Dr. Seymour Pollack testifying he is mentally ill but capable of premeditation. Final prosecution and defense witnesses are set, with closing arguments and jury deliberations anticipated this week.
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RFK
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Friday
Sirhan
Seymour Pollack
Herbert V. Walker
Walker
Pony Drowning Saddens Boy 13 in La Mirada
Peppermint the pony, 12, was bound by a leather strap and left to drown in a La Mirada pool after his abductors cut a gate lock. Sheriff deputies hunt the killers as Randy Clifford and family cope with the senseless act. James W. Reno found the body floating in ten feet of water at the Olympic pool.
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Bath
Peppermint
la Mirna
Perons
Sheriff's
Clifford
Ocaso Ave
la Mirada
Norwalk
James W. Reno
Foster Road
Adelfa Drive
Reno
Chief's Son Pleads Guilty In Pot Transport Case
Lanky Steve Murray 21, son of San Clemente Police Chief Clifford Murray, pleaded guilty to transporting five kilos of marijuana. Four other felony charges were continued to April 24, when he faces sentencing in Santa Ana. He was arrested February 2 on orders of his father. authorities found heroin and more marijuana in his pickup.
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Steve Murray
Friday
Murray
San Clemente
Clifford Murray
Criminal Court
Robert Gardner
Santa Ana
Young Murray
Store Contract Talks Resume in Southern California
Representatives of Local 770 of the Retail Clerks Union and the Food Employers Council resume negotiations today. Six of the union locals in Southern California including Long Beach agreed to new three year contracts. Local 770 covers supermarkets in the Los Angeles metro area and two other Southern California locals have not yet reached agreements.
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Retail Clerks Union
The
Food Employers Council
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Southern California
James North
Foremen’s Union
James Jackson
Marine Clerks Association
San Francisco
Curt Johnston
Longshoremen’s Union
Harry Bridges
Longshore Local Heads Face Contempt Hearing
Leaders of three Longshoremen locals and other ILWU officials face a contempt of court hearing in San Francisco for refusing to handle containerized shipments. PMA seeks penalties and a cost recovery, while union leaders argue the shift favors containerized cargo under the current contract.
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Longshore
Longshoremen’s Union
San Francisco
Seattle
Portland
San Diego
Stockton
Sacramento
Port Hueneme
Pacific Mariime Association
Richard Ernst
Robert Peckham
Ernst
PMA
Peckham
Sam Kagel
Teamsters
Topless and bottomless pubs padlocked by county DA
Orange County district attorney invoked the Red Light Abatement Act to close three pubs after slow criminal proceedings. The Apartment A-Go-Go in Santa Ana, Country Girl No. 2 in Anaheim, and Harbor Inn in La Habra were ordered shut at the DA’s request and signed by a Superior Court judge.
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Orange County
Dist. Atty
Cecil Hicks
17Th St
Santa Ana
Mira Loma St
Anaheim
Harbor Inn
la Habra
Superior Court
Bryon
Ventura Coed Wins Medical Settlement
A 22 year old Ventura Junior College student with partial paralysis after an ear operation won 160000 damages from surgeon William F House and two associates in a Los Angeles Superior Court jury ruling. An April 15 hearing was set to consider a preliminary injunction to keep the premises closed until final decision.
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Ventura Junior College
Los Angeles
Louise A. Beall
William F. House
Hicks
Palm Springs seeks rules after hippie exodus and riots
Palm Springs faces a mass departure of about 3000 hippies amid a week of violence ending with arsons fires and rapes. Police moved to clear Tahquitz Canyon and city officials plan grounds for future influx while courts order cleanup sentences for dozens.
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Themerican Civil Liberties Union
Los Angeles
Owever
Palm Springs
Agua Caliente
Tahquitz Canyon
Suit Seeks End of All Offshore Drilling in State
Santa Barbara city and county filed a federal suit in Los Angeles seeking a permanent injunction to halt all offshore drilling along California coast. The action names Interior Secretary Hickel and multiple oil companies, seeks a three-judge panel and challenges the Outer Continental Shelf Land Act as unconstitutional.
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ILWU
William Ward
William Forrester
Ilwu Coast Labor Relations Committee
Bridges
Los Angeles
State Alcohol Board of Control
Santa Barbara
California
U.S
Walter J. Hickel
Outer Continental Shelf
D. W. Solanas
Oil and Gas Division
U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey
Union Oil Co. of
Santa Barbara Channel
Tunney Dives Santa Barbara Channel for Oil Leak
Rep John V Tunney D Calif joined a Sierra Club dive to inspect underwater oil damage in the Santa Barbara Channel. He reported nitrogen euporia and a disoriented feeling during a 200 foot dive while Tommy Thompson aided him. Tunney pledged to seek an end to drilling in the channel and push for congressional hearings on alleged secret government drilling operations.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
UPI
John V. Tunney
D-Calif
Santa Barbara Channel
Tunney
Gene Tunney
Tommy Thompson
The
Sierra Club
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Srant Cooper
Mr. Cooper
Pollack
I.O
Eisenhower
Corona del Mar Beach
Seaside
Southland
Phete
Roger Coar
Randy Clifford
Andy
Randy
Jack
Jack O. Baldwin
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Ventura Coed
K. McMillan
Municipal Court
David McGahey
Desert
Riously
Richard Bradford
Venice
Ventura
Pauley Petroleum
Mobil Oil Corp
Phillips Petroleum Co
Western Offshore Drilling and Exploration Co
Standard Oil Co
Humble Oil Co
Peter Bawden Drilling Inc
Gulf Oil Co
Texas Inc
Atlantic-Richfield Oil Corp
Union
Mobil
Gulf
Texaco
Peter Bawden Drilling, Inc
State Attorney General's Office
Channel Dive
Lakewood Blvd
Rosecrans Ave
Downey
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