Death row author gets life term for San Diego kidnapping
Edgar Smith, once on death row for a New Jersey murder, was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after seven years for kidnapping and related crimes in San Diego. He urged psychiatric treatment, claiming to be a mentally disordered sex offender, while prosecutors urged society protection.
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New Jersey
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Smith
Harelson
Lefteriya Ozbun
Trenton State Prison
Victoria Zielinski
Zielinski
Edgar Smith
Richard Neely
Inmates locked in to black race row at San Quentin
AP reports most San Quentin inmates were confined to cells after a stabbing sparked fears of racial conflict. Garland Berry, 29, of Sacramento, with seven stab wounds, was attacked by white inmates in an outside yard. Guards released a warning shot to stop a follow up fist fight. Authorities caution the episode may reflect gang dynamics rather than pure race.
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SAN Quentin
Garland Berry
Sacramento
Bill Merkle
Berry
Whale Institution
Aryan Brotherhood
Merkie
Health Magazine Praises Chiropractic Headache Treatment
An issue of a national health magazine urges headache sufferers to seek modern chiropractic care. It cites a high success rate in relieving headaches caused by spinal misalignment from poor neck posture, especially when sleeping on the abdomen. Dr Wes Helzer promotes chiropractic consultation at Bellflower offices.
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National Health
Wes
Kasabian recounts Tate killings in retrial testimony
Linda Kasabian testified in Los Angeles at the Leslie Van Houten retrial, recounting the Tate house murders tied to the Manson group. She described Watson shooting Stephen Parent, the stabbing of Fakyoski, and Krenwinkel chasing Abigail Folger, while noting she did not know of planned killings.
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Sharon Tate
Mrs. Kasabian
Charles Manson
Leslie van Houten
Los Angeles
Manson
Charles “Tex" Watson
Susan Atkins
Patricia Krenwinkel
Spahn Ranch
San
Fernando Valley
Tate
Watson
Stephen Parent
Kasabian
Tex
Iby du Atty
Stephen
Nirsef Klag
Voit Yok
Es. Tate
Roman Polanski
Frykowski
Miss Tate
Miss Atkins
Tate House
Sadie
Miss Krenwinkel
Abigail Falger
Kasablan
Miss van Houten
Pyramider project cited as gimmick in spy trial
Former CIA analyst Victor Marchetti testified that the Pyramider Project was a dog and pony show used to please Congress and justify CIA budgets. He called the project a nonfeasible, vaguely funded effort to contact agents in denied areas, never completed and likely unfeasible. Boyce faces life term if convicted for allegedly stealing the top secret files from TRW and sharing them with Andrew Dalton Lee, who is accused of selling them to the Soviets in Mexico City.
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Victor Marchetti
Marchetti
Los Angeles
Christopher Boyce
The
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Cult of Intelligence
TRW Inc
Redondo Beach
Andrew Daulton Lee
Mexico City
Lee
Vocational program trains students for scarce cosmetology jobs
Sacramento AP The states 500 million plus vocational education program trains many students for jobs that do not exist. A LA Alan Post cites a 4 percent oversupply in cosmetology through 1980. In 1973-74 about 9,700 public cosmetology students and similar private enrollments. by 1975 there were 14,522 students in police classes.
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A. Alan Post
California
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