Spy case testimony ties drinking to blackmail plot at TRW
Christopher Boyce, a 38 year old TRW aerospace clerk in Redondo Beach, testified he was blackmailed into selling CLA secrets to the Soviet Union but swore he did not act as an agent willfully. He said he and colleagues drank heavily during briefings and that security at TRW was lax. Co defendant Andrew Daulton Lee faces separate trial.
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CLA
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Redowicf Beach
Palos Verdes
Los Angeles
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FBI
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Ments. Lee
Mexico City
TRW
Carter signs $4 billion jobs bill to spur economy
Senate and House conferees approve President Carter plan to provide $4 billion in federal aid to local governments for public works. Hospitals schools parks sewers bridges and other projects could create 150000 to 400000 jobs while unemployment remains above target. Conferees postponed the $7.25 billion water pollution section and aim to pass the measure soon.
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Senate
House
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Grand jury to review Assessor Watson misconduct file
Los Angeles County Supervisors voted to present the complete investigations into Assessor Philip Watson’s office to the grand jury and urge an accusation of misconduct in office. The accusation, a non criminal remedy, requires at least 12 of 23 jurors to vote yes, with removal if convicted.
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Los Angeles County Supervisors
Grand Jury
Philip Watson
Board eyes jury probe into 1972 Watson underassessment case
The board asks the jury to review Carmine Bellino’s allegations that Watson intervened to lower a 1972 commercial property assessment for a campaign contributor and that assessor staff worked on Prop 14 campaign tasks. Debate over sending complete transcripts vs selected passages stalls progress as Bellino heads west to provide further material.
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Watson
Baxter Ward
Bellino
Pete Schabarum
Schabarum
Ward
Maryland
Three Way Feud Over Energy Czar Power Emerges
Washington reports a three sided power struggle among Sen Abraham Ribicoff Sen Henry Jackson and the administration over who controls the energy secretary role in creating a Dept of Energy The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee meeting exposed friction over whether to adopt the administration bill or make changes reflecting party aims and presidential wishes
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Cgar
James R. Schlesinger
Congress
Schlesinger
Department of Energy
Abraham Ribicoff
United States
Connecticut
Carter
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Ribicoff
State sues GM too over engine switch in cars
California filed a 20 million damage suit in San Francisco Superior Court alleging GM used Chevrolet engines in Buicks Oldsmobiles and Pontiacs in the Great Engine Switch. Los Angeles and San Francisco suits seek refunds, bans on selling hybrids, and penalties while GM announces a consumer settlement plan.
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Los Angeles
San Francisco
General Motors
State Department of Consumer Affairs
Ray Bonner
District Attorney
California
Elliot M. Estes
State targets 20 doctors over nursing home care
Sacramento AP says state Health Secretary Mario Obledo recommends revoking the licenses of 20 doctors for shoddy nursing home care. Additional doctors and 16 homes could lose licenses, with criminal charges against three doctors under consideration. It marks the first mass action of its kind in California.
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Mario Obledo
Obledo
del Callaway
California Association of Health Facilities
Gas stalls effort to halt oil spill near Ekofisk field
In Stavanger Norway an American tech team paused caulking work on a runaway North Sea well after gas buildup forced evacuation of the offshore platform. Weather held hope for a resume at daybreak as Phillips Petroleum officials called the 24 hour window decisive. The slick grew to 96 000 gallons per hour and spread over about 80 000 acres in two sectors.
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Stavanger
Norway
Gordon Goering
Phillips Petroleum Co
Californians back statewide water rationing in drought poll
A San Francisco AP report shows about four in five Californians favor statewide rationing if needed to fight a two year drought. Legislators skeptical of two drought bills would limit rationing to short counties or require statewide metering by 1980, with hearings planned and one bill shelved indefinitely.
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San Francisco
What role for FBI
A brief note on the public debate over FBI functions and oversight appears on page A-6, with related TV-free family survival themes summarized on page A-7.
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