Brown touts major state breakthroughs in six months
Gov. Brown praised early achievements including the abolition of the oil depletion allowance and near passage of the home office exemption. He signed a housing bill injecting up to 950 million into California’s low income housing and said more reforms are needed, especially in education, farm labor, and public employee bargaining.
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Home Office
California
Brown
New Housing Agency
Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act
Ford urges longer delay in car smog rules
President Ford proposed freezing exhaust standards through 1981 to avoid inflation and preserve fuel economy gains. He argued tighter rules would raise costs while the NAS warned the tightening would save lives. The National Clean Air Coalition criticized the move as a last ditch effort by industry.
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Washington
UPI
Ford Friday
Environmental Protection Agency
Ford
Congress
EPA
National Academy of Sciences
National Clean Air Coalition
Clean Air Coalition
Laos Students Occupy U S Embassy Compound in Vientiane
Student demonstrators in Vientiane occupy the U S Embassy maintenance compound posting Americans Go Home and CIA Go Home signs. They block entry to a housing area and seize the U S Information Service library.
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Vientiane, Laos
U.S
CIA
Vientiane
U.S. Information Service Library
Long Beach Sues Major Oil Firms Over Price Fixing
Eight large oil companies are named in a Los Angeles federal suit filed by Long Beach and the State Lands Commission alleging price fixing and contract breaches in tidel and oil production. Damages are cited as substantially over 100 million dollars. The action targets Standard Oil California Texaco Exxon Union Oil Mobil Shell Atlantic Richfield and THUMS Long Beach Co. The suit charges conspiracy to fix and stabilize crude oil prices at unreasonably low levels and restrain trade under federal antitrust and state law.
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Long Beach
State Lands Commission
Tidel
U.s.district Court
Los Angeles
Standard Oil Co
California
Texaco, Inc
Exxon Corp
Union Oil Co
Mobil Oil Corp
Shell Oil Co
Atlantic Richfield Co
Thums Long Beach Co
Wilmington
Texaco
Exxon
Union
Mobil
Shell
State of California
John R. Mansell
Leonard Putnam
Blecher, Collins & Hoecker
State Business and Professions Code
Eulogies for Busch Highlight Southland Prosecutor
The sudden death of Los Angeles County D A Joseph P. Busch Jr 49 at his West Covina home from a coronary occlusion drew outpourings of praise for a career prosecutor who led the nations largest district attorney office since January 1971 He died while preparing for his son Stevens wedding and funeral services are planned in West Covina with a rosary Monday night.
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Los Angeles County
Joseph P. Busch, Jr
West Covina
Thomas Noguchi
Busch
Steven
Joseph Jr
St. Christopher’s Catholic Church
Queen of
Land air search for FBI killers on Pine Ridge Reservation
The FBI deployed aircraft armored personnel carriers jeeps a helicopter and a light plane to conduct a systematic search of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for suspects in the slayings of two FBI agents and one Indian. Agents interviewed residents while concentrating on the wooded area near the ramshackle house where the shootings occurred.
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Pine Ridge
S.D
FBI
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Thomas Coll
National Guard
Coll
Long Beach Woman Arrested For Hiring Hit Man
Police say Ruth Lee Jimerson, 32, was booked on suspicion of soliciting to commit murder after offering an undercover ABC officer $5,000 to kill her husband Kenneth Jimerson. Investigators traced the scheme through bars where she worked, aiming to gain life insurance and custody.
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District Attorney's Office
Long Beach
ABC
D. C. Blachowski
R. E. Forbes
Petite
Ruth Lee Jimerson
Daisy Ave
Jimerson
Long Beach Blvd
Nixon testimony to remain secret in Watergate probe
Former President Richard M. Nixon testified for 11 hours under oath before two grand jury members in California. He asked that the public be informed of his sworn testimony. Legal observers note it is the first sworn grand jury testimony by a former president.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Watergate
California
Library of Congress
Ford
Herbert J. Miller
District of
Columbia
Henry S. Ruth
U.S. District Court
San Diego
Edward J. Schwartz
Capitol Remodel Approved by State Senate
State Senate passes remodeling of the Capitol Building with plans for safety and modernization. The action accompanies other notable pages including responses to life sentences and agricultural price trends as reported on page A-3 and A-5.
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State Senate
Capitol
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