Ford signals plan to end gasoline price controls
President Ford said on Wednesday it is highly likely he will recommend to Congress the elimination of all gasoline price controls. He hinted at a decision within a week on reconsidering blanket amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers. Ford noted price controls remain the last major federal restraint at retail pumps and warned removal could raise prices. Morris Udall criticized decontrol as a fatal Christmas gift to oil companies and inflationary to consumers.
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Vail
Ford
Carter Administration
Ihe
Morris Udall
Nine murders verdict in Skid Row Slasher case
Associated Press reports Vaughn Orrin Greenwood, 33, convicted in Los Angeles of nine murder counts including eight Skid Row Slasher killings and one assault with intent to commit murder. Jurors could not reach verdict on two 1964 murders, mistrial to be declared on those charges. Greenwood already serves 32 years to life for other crimes.
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Associated Press
Vaughn Orrin Greenwood
Los Angeles
Greenwood
Jan. Li
Skid Row
Hollywood
David Russell
Charles Jackson
Superior Court
Steve Brown
Burt Reynolds
Hollywoods
Dry '76 Weather To End Long Beach Drought
A Pacific storm front threatens Southern California today ending a 40 day dry spell in Long Beach with a 50 percent rain chance. Showers could linger into the weekend while Bay Area rain marks first since mid November. The system may ease drought relief for ski slopes though rain challenges Rose Parade and Rose Bowl preparations. Snow is forecast at high elevations.
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Long Beach
California
National Weather Service
San Francisco Bay Area
Weather Service
Carter to trim defense budget in first push
President elect Jimmy Carter, after his cabinet meetings at Musgrove Plantation, announced plans to cut defense waste by 5 to 7 billion dollars, freeing funds for tax cuts and social programs. He said some reforms will be phased in and further reductions could come from reduced Middle East tensions and improved Soviet relations. He also expects an economic recovery outline next week and a welfare reform plan for Congress next year.
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Jimmy Carter
Itl
Pentagon
Carter
Congress
Musgrove Plantation
St. Simons Island
Georgia
Defense Department
Middle East
Soviet Union
Ex-con holds wife and children in Willowbrook siege
Ex convict Lafayette Pruitt, 35, released from San Quentin 11 days earlier, barricaded with his wife and four children in a Willowbrook apartment. Deputies negotiated with hostage team after he allowed entry for talks. He threatened authorities with a handgun as deputies surrounded the Firestone area complex for hours.
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Willowbrook
Lafayette Pruitt
Wadsworth Ave
San Quentin
Sheriff's
Pruitt
Marcella
Firestone Area
Flu shot moratorium extended as study continues
The CDC extended its pause on swine flu immunization indefinitely while doctors study links to Guillain Barre syndrome. Data show 383 paralytic cases since October with 202 after swine flu shots and 19 deaths related to the syndrome, prompting officials to weigh when to restart vaccination.
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Atlanta
Federal Center For Disease Control
Alexander Langmuir
Harvard Medical School
J. Donald Millar
The
Atlanta Journal
General Accounting Office
GAO
Congress
CDC
Hong Kong
William Foege
Guilty plea in Black Marines race attack case at Pendleton
Cpl. E F Henry, among 13 Black Marines, pleaded guilty to reduced charges of assault and conspiracy after an alleged attack on six White Marines at CAMP PENDLETON. Henry, 20, said they thought they were confronting Ku Klux Klan members. He received three months hard labor, pay cut, and demotion to private. The case next decides others accused. one has immunity for testimony.
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Camp Pendleton
Cpl
E.F. Henry
Tienry
Ivanhoe
N.C
Henry
Marine Corps
Vey
Marines
Haery
Economy shows leading indicators rise for second month
Washington AP reports the index of leading economic indicators rose 1 percent in November marking a second straight gain. Six of ten indicators improved, led by a lower layoff rate, with signs of a pickup in growth and advertising that unemployment may edge down. Weather: 50s to 60s, chances of rain.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Ortoher
Brown seeks Norwalk care volunteers in state hospitals
Governor Jerry Brown and a coalition of religious leaders urged recruiting 400 volunteers to assist patients at Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk and Agnew State Hospital in Santa Clara. The program aims to add to about 1,000 existing volunteers and to expand to nursing homes prisons and alcoholism programs if successful.
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Sacramento
Brown
Gations
Metropolitan State Hospital
Norwalk
Agnew State Hospital
Santa Clara
Metropolitan
William Keating
State Health Department
Long Beach councilman tied to DA probe over drywall payments
Long Beach councilman Wes Carroll, linked to a district attorney investigation, is named in a suit alleging Coast Drywall Construction Co issued two checks totaling 197,640.24 to Leebrick & Fisher Building Materials Co with a scheme involving blank invoices and misdirected payments. Carroll says he followed orders and did not know the purpose or fate of the funds.
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Long Beach
Wes Carroll
District Attorney's Office
Independent, Press- Telegram
Carroll
Coast’ Drywall Construction Co
Leebrick & Fisher Building Materials Co
Leebrick and Fisher
Leebrick
Coast Drywall
Drywall
Charles Allen
Allen
Reno
Nev
U.S. Issues Ban on Credit Discrimination
The edition notes a U.S. ban on credit discrimination highlighted on page A-6. A solar heat claim that it can compete economically with electricity appears on its page. Page references include A-8 discussion of Rev Moon aides calling an attack hateful. Canada-US disputes strain ties noted on page A-$.
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