Long Beach incumbents win renomination in city primary
Eight Long Beach City Council incumbents advance to May 13 two candidate runoffs. In the open Fifth District Edwin Wade’s successor finalists are Ernie Kell and Jo Ann Richards. Kell led with 1,264 votes to Richards 1,142 and Bond 997. City Attorney Putnam reelected with about 56 percent. turnout 39,721 of 117,204 registered, 33.89 percent.
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Bob Houser
Long Beach
Edwin W. Wade
Ernie Kell
Jo Ann Richards
Wade
Leonard Putnam
Carl Bergkvist
Edward M. Daley
Murray T. Courson
Robert W. Parkin
Kell
Richards
Bill Bond
Congress
State Assembly
Assembly
Bert Bond
Bond
Wallace W. Edgerton
Long Beach State University
Edgerton
Tom Shaw
CIA funded Hughes salvage ship for Soviet sub recovery
Washington reports the CIA financed a Hughes built deep sea salvage vessel to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine in the Pacific. The forward section with 70 plus bodies was raised, but missiles and code room were not recovered, and Jennifer operations sparked debate over value versus cost and detente risks.
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New York Times Service
Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Pacific Ocean
CIA
Howard R. Hughes
U.S
Hughes
Ford Warns Over South Vietnamese Retreat Reports
The White House said President Ford has unofficial reports of South Vietnamese retreat from three provinces and views the situation with considerable concern. No official confirmation from Thieu’s government yet. Ford also fears dimming chances for further U S military aid to Cambodia due to fuel and ammunition shortages.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Ford
Nessen
U.S
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Heavy rocket fire hits Phnom Penh during war anniversary
Rebels marked the Cambodian war’s fifth anniversary by firing rockets on government positions near Phnom Penh and testing defenses on the capital’s outskirts. A U S spokesman said a plane evacuated embassy personnel belongings while the embassy reported documents burned and relief agencies asked to trim staff in outlying areas. Government forces repelled a rebel assault on the Phnom Penh perimeter as insurgents reinforced with about 800 troops overnight.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
U.S
Bangkok
Thailand
Hessians Drug Arms Cache Bottles Up North Long Beach Bust
Police arrested Ellen Flake Bruce Be nek e and Jack Dodd after a North Long Beach search for a kidnap victim uncovered heroin explosives and stolen goods. Carol Scott a 25 year old topless dancer from Lomita reported being beaten by Hessians.
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Hessians
North
Long Beach
Ellen Rae Flake
Bruce Fred Beneke
Jack Ryan Dodd
Market Lane
Don First
Charles Gay
Carol Scott
Lomita
Dunkirk Scale Exodus As South Vietnam Flee Central Highlands
About 250000 refugees fled the central highlands by road to government-held areas as Communist forces advanced. Officials described a 60 mile long convoy along Highway 7 from Pleiku with towns emptied and hospitals abandoned.
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Saigon
UPI
South Vietnam
Dunkirk
Pleiku
Visa granted for actress Victoria Fyodorova to visit her father
Victoria Fyodorova, daughter of a World War II romance between an American admiral and a Russian actress, won permission to visit her father retired Admiral R. Tate in Florida. The 23 year old said Soviet officials asked 361 rubles for the visa and praised Brezhnev and the Russian people for humanitarian gesture.
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Moscow
Victoria Fyodorova
Adr
Nnce R. Tate
Victoria
Fyodorova
Orange Park
Fla
Tate
Brezhnev
Douglas pact talks pushed by federal mediators
An air of expectancy hung over the 35 day old McDonnell Douglas strike as federal mediators led talks with union and management into the evening. Similar talks were planned in St Louis between corporation officials and the striking machinists union. The round followed a long Sunday meeting in Washington with Federal Mediation Director William J. Usery who aimed to move toward an early conclusion to the settlement. Usery said meetings established a basis for pursuing negotiations to the earliest possible conclusion.
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McDonnell Douglas
Corporation
Machinists
St. Louis
Washington
Federal Mediation
William J. Usery
Usery
Robert Simpson
Tough state smog rule on cars
The California Air Resources Board adopted tougher 1977 auto emission standards in Los Angeles, opposing federal delay and seeking EPA waiver. New HC and NOx limits tighten California car rules, while CO remains at 9.0. The board delayed sulfate emissions decisions and urged automakers to push for a decade of clean cars.
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State Air Resources Board
Los Angeles
California
Ford
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
Tom
Quinn
EPA
Independent FBI harassed socialist workers party claims
New documents allege a decade long federal harassment by the FBI against the Socialist Workers Party. The report notes prior Chicago ear-to-ear slashing conviction linked to the same slasher. An assemblyman cites death threats tied to a dog racing bill.
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FBI
Socialist Workers Party
Assemblyman
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Kell, Richards
L.B
Long Beach Area
Westside
Eunice N. Sato
Wayne B. Sharp
Mrs. Sato
William E. Colby
Phnom Phen
S. Vietnam
Darlac
Kontum Provinces
South China Sea
Charles Sutton
Associated Press
Tod
L.A
Chicago
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