California Alaska oil pipeline plans face federal review
California officials press to expedite Sohio pipeline amid Alaska crude surplus. ARB chair Quinn in Washington on air quality talks. Andrus cites environmental studies and need to move West to East oil to Midwest refineries. Interior officials back northern route in concept with four month federal-permit window.
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State Air Resources Board
Tom Quinn
Washington, D.C
ARB
Quinn
Andrus
Interior Department
Alaska
United States
Chicago
California
California Coastal Commission
Long Beach
Sobio
Elk Hills
Pacific Northway
Upper Midwest
West Coast
Strangle Case Leads to $196000 Reward in LA Murders
A $196000 reward was approved by supervisors for tips in a string of strangulation deaths linked to the Washington murder case. Undersheriff Sherman Block and DA bureau head Richard Hecht outlined the investigation, while Lt. Ed Henderson cautioned that no solid evidence has emerged. The task force will review a year of victims’ associates, as calls pour in with hundreds of leads.
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Washington
Lauren Wagner
Mount Washington
Jane King
Griffith Park
Dolores Cepeda
Elysian Park
Sonja Johnson
Kristina Weckler
Highland Park
Kathleen Robinson
Wilshire
Jill Barcomb
Hollywood Hills
Lissa Teresa Kastin
Glendale
Judith Ann Miller
la Crescenta
Sherman Block
Richard Hecht
District Attorney
Special Operations Bureau
Los Angeles
Ray Ruddell
Special Interagency
Ed Henderson
Los Angeles Police Department
Henderson
Ruddell
Ed Edelman
Jone
Block
Nixon letter fetches 6250 dollars at New York sale
An autograph dealer paid 6250 for a handwritten Nixon letter dated December 14, 1971, to Brigadier General Thomas Aldrich and his wife. The sale set a living-person letter record, with other items including a 1936 Howard Hughes letter and a 1744 Thomas Jefferson letter.
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New York
Richard M. Nixon
Charles Hamilton
Nixon
Thomas A. Aldrich
U.S. Air Force
Azores
Mary Benjamin
Walter R. Benjamin Inc
Hunter, N.Y
Jacqueine Kennedy
Howard Hughes
Louis Sobol
Thomas Jefferson
Pennsylvania death penalty law declared unconstitutional
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled the 1974 death penalty statute unconstitutional in a 5 to 1 decision. The court held the law violated the U.S. Constitution by failing to require adequate consideration of a defendant’s character and prior record by the sentencing jury.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
High Court
Milton Shapp
Court says juror bite experiment not prejudice Miller case
In a 4th Circuit ruling, the court held that a juror biting an arm as an experiment during an April 1975 rape trial did not prejudice the verdict. George William Miller, convicted of rape, argued the Richland County jury’s conduct tainted his trial, but the appellate court declined to overturn the conviction or grant relief.
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4Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
George William Miller
Miller
Richland County
S.C
Juey
Israel to attend Cairo talks on draft peace plan
Officials in Jerusalem said Israel plans to bring a draft peace treaty to the Cairo talks called by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to prep for Geneva. Carter set a Dec 13 start date and only Israel, the U S and the U N have said they will attend. King Hussein urged Arab unity and said Jordan would skip Cairo and the anti Sadat summit in Tripoli.
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Israel
Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Geneva
Jerusalem
Sadal
Jesiabar
Carter
United States
United Nations
Moshe Dayan
Dayan
Washington
Menahem Begin
Sadat
Jordan
Tripali
Libya
Carter splits winter trip into two journeys
President Carter's trip plan is divided into a nine day winter journey starting Dec 29 to Europe India and the Middle East with meetings in Poland Iran India Saudi Arabia France Belgium and a projected spring trip to Brazil Nigeria and Venezuela. An anticipated Bonn economic summit may occur in the spring. He will dine with the Shah in Tehran New Year’s Eve and address India’s parliament.
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Washington
Carter
Continents
Europe
India
Middle East
Brazil
Nigeria
Venezuela
White House
Jody Powell
Bonn
Poland
Iran
Saudi Arabia
France
Belgium
Powell
United States
Teheran
U.S
Tle
New Delhi
Morarji Desai
Riyadh
Versailles
Paris
Brussels
Congress
Dion
Plac
Hoge
Warsaw
Edward Gierek
Communist Party
Neelam Reddy
Wil Desai
Alamemorial
Mohandas Ghandi
Khalid
Fahd
Arc Dé Triomphe
Valery Giscard d
Giscard d'Estaing
Baudonin
Common Market
North Adriatic Treaty Organization
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Laura Collins
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Los Angeles County
Ward
Sheriff’s Department
Hecht
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Colo
Colorado
Pennnsylvania
Richmond
Sao
JennAir
Jenn-Air
Seana
Jann-Air
Jenn
AIR
Thermador
Soe
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