New channel oil ban leaves fees skeptical
In Santa Barbara, anti oil groups react skeptically to a federal agreement to ban exploratory drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel. Officials say Interior clearance is needed for Texaco and the Corps of Engineers processes the request, with warnings of buck passing and uncertain enforcement.
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Santa Barbara Channel
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Corps of Engineers
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Interior Department
Texaco
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Los Angeles
Brown to oversee Berkeley recount
Secretary of State Edmund G. Brown Jr will oversee a Berkeley recount after Warren Widener’s slim 56 vote win. The margin fell to 47 after hand counts of damaged ballots, with officials weighing hand versus machine methods and cost estimates underway.
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Berkeley
Sacramento
UPI
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Warren Widener
Wilmot Sweeney
Widener
Alameda County
Sweeney
Edythe Campbell
Bill would limit pupils to neighborhood schools
Sacramento Assemblyman Floyd Wakefield proposes a bill to bar districts from assigning students to schools outside their home neighborhoods. The measure, opposed as racist and unconstitutional by Willie L. Brown, comes after courts upheld mandatory busing but allowed distant assignments for racial balance.
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Sacramento
Floyd Wakefield
R-South Gate
Willie L. Brown
San Francisco
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Admiral Jackson Remembers Trenton Sail in Rain Visit
Retired Adm. Rich ard H. Jackson, 104, visited the amphibious transport Trenton in San Diego. He recalled saving the sister ship Trenton from rocks during a 1889 typhoon off Samoa, while the new ship paused en route to Norfolk.
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Alabama
Guards Use Shots and Gas to Break Out Inmates
Guards at the State Conservation Center fired warning shots and released tear gas to disperse a large group of recalcitrant inmates at a recreation area. The disturbance involved about 700 of 900 inmates during a 3 day work stoppage. One convict had cuts and bruises after a fight. another had minor injuries during restraint. Burglars robbed Dr. Leo LaDage's office at 3901 Cerritos Ave stealing camera equipment valued at 1530 dollars.
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UPI
State Conservation Center
Leo LaDage
Cerritos Ave
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