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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1970
Page
2
Washington report: The Senate defeats a surprise compromise aimed at halting the SST filibuster after a second effort by its leadership. The vote blocks any end to the anti SST filibuster at the current level and leaves authorization unsettled.
Thanksgiving cards bring news loved ones are alive including Lt. William E. Pyle and others from California. Senate debate on the 2.6 billion SST appropriation stalls as Mansfield’s compromise plan fails amid cross party opposition.
The release in Paris of a 31 page North Vietnamese list states prisoners’ capture dates and death dates, with families notified. Kennedy sent Nolan to Paris to verify and relay the list to U.S. officials. Pentagon and State Department reconciled differences, while urging full Geneva Convention access and mail flow for all prisoners.
Sacramento reports a Republican lawmaker reintroducing a plan to lower adulthood to 18 and push a November special election. Briggs argues current law treats 18-year-olds inconsistently and would let 18-year-olds vote nationally but not in state matters. He seeks a constitutional amendment and a companion bill funding a November 1971 vote. others like Vasconcellos and Moscone echoed similar actions.
California Medical Association petitions the Reagan administration to restore Medi Cal cuts, calling emergency regulations illegal. CMA seeks a public hearing by January 5 and repeal by January 8, arguing the rules would force doctors out of the program and leave patients without needed services.
District Attorney Bruce Bales announced Angela Davis will be arraigned at 9 a.m. today before Superior Court Judge E Warren McQuire on charges tied to the killing of a judge and three others. Henry Winston and Gus Hall of the Communist Party USA accused the case of a frame-up and possible death sentence, while a Bay Area water board banned dumping pollutants in the Pacific near the Golden Gate.
About 6400 people marched from the Los Angeles Music Center to City Hall on a Tuesday for the second annual candlelight parade protesting alleged mistreatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. The event drew participants from diverse groups and aimed to raise awareness and show solidarity.
Joseph Broughton, a Folsom inmate, was sentenced to death by a Sacramento County Superior Court jury after three hours of deliberation. He stabbed fellow prisoner Salvatore Gandara twice in the back on June 25, injuring but not killing Gandara, while Broughton already faced two life sentences.
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