Architect Bribery Trial Highlights Cash Payments
In a Long Beach bribery trial, architect Coppedge testifies that Mayer of Design Development Associates received cash payments from 1971 to 1973 tied to Brock Pacifica and Marina Pacifica projects. Payments, mostly in Lombardo's restaurant, included a Caribbean trip and potential 5 percent fee, with Mayer labeled as pressuring officials. Mayer indicted on two counts of bribery. testimony may include taped recordings.
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Brock Organization
Brock
Mayer
Design Development Associates
Coppedge
Ballance
Ocean Blvd
Lombardo’s
Brock Projet
Brock/Pacific Terrace
Fecl
William Dawson
Marina Pacifica
Coppedge-Ballance
Lombardo
Caribbean
American Express
Scoppedge
Baltanog
Arcadia
Long Beach
District Attorney’s Office
Disabled sit in at Califano office demands civil rights action
About 300 disabled demonstrators picketed the HEW headquarters in Washington and crowded the secretary's outer office to press enforcement of civil rights laws for the handicapped. The protest spread to HEW regional offices in San Francisco Denver and New York with promises to stay overnight if needed. Dr Frank Bowe urged Califano to sign regulations now and study later.
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HEW
Joseph Califano
Washington
Wireanene
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Joseph A. Califano Jr
Califano
General Services Administration
San Francisco
Denver
New York
Frank Bowe
American Coalition of Citizens With Disabilities
Capitol Hill
Congress
Bowe
Califane
Soite
Joe Maldonado
Mary Jane Owen
Tom Hayden
California
U.S. Senate
Moonie parents ordered to bring children to court
In San Francisco, five Moonie followers’ parents were ordered to produce their adult children for an appellate court hearing. The Unification Church argues California’s temporary conservatorship law, used to gain custody, is unconstitutional, claiming violations of religious freedom.
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Moonie
San Francisco
Unification Church
State Court of Appeal
California
Church
Sun Myung Moon
Food stamp plan faces Senate clash over purchase rule
Stamps advocate F Talmadge of Georgia chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee and opposes removing the purchase requirement. Critics warn it would shift welfare framing and boost welfare arguments. Under current rules a four person family earning 300 monthly would pay 90 and receive 166 in stamps. proposed would grant 76 without upfront payment, with cash paid at checkout. The change aims to curb theft and streamline distribution.
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Man F. Talmadge
D-Ga
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
Agriculture Department
Carter seeks more Redwood acreage expansion plan
Washington sources say the Carter administration will ask Congress for authority to add about 47 100 acres to Redwood National Park in Northern California. The proposal focuses on protecting virgin redwood stands along Devils and Redwood creeks in the park's southern section.
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Washington
Redwood National Park
California
Congress
Engine Loss on L A Bound 707 Ends Safely
American Airlines Flight 241 en route to Los Angeles from St. Louis lost a right inboard engine about two minutes after takeoff from St. Louis. The plane landed safely near emergency equipment with 40 passengers and crew evacuating. No injuries reported while investigators review the incident.
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Soeke
St Louis
American Flight 241
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Larry Rohner
Centralia
Jules Caria
Patin Spring
Calif
Scott Air Force Base
Daniel W. Fausner
Or Diego
St. 8
Survivors recall emergency landing as plane skimmed trees
Survivors describe a chaotic moment after an emergency landing, with passenger Bernard Bryan of Atlanta saying a stewardess ordered heads down as the aircraft approached wooded terrain. Frederick Clemens of Wilmington recounts holding hands with companions while the fuselage brushed tree trunks and the plane tumbled in a sequence of crashes.
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Bernard Bryan
Atlanta
Plane Crash Rescue Muted by Explosion at Grocer Store Crossroads
Witnesses describe a blue and white DC9 drifting from the west, its left wing hitting Charlie Newman's white brick grocery and gasoline pumps at a crossroads intersection, igniting a blast and fire as survivors escaped from wreckage and rescuers freed the trapped.
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Childress
New Hope
Charlie Newman
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American Airlines
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Sam
Frederick Clemens
Wilmington
Dei
Clemens
Bryan
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Woolworth
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