Brown taps first black cabinet member and farmer pick
Sacramento AP report says Governor Brown named the first Black cabinet member and appointed Leonard Grimes as director of the Department of Food and Agriculture, elevating it to cabinet rank. Donald Vial to Industrial Relations, David Janssen to General Services, with Bird set to join the California Supreme Court. The moves aim to ease tensions with farm groups and expand minority access to top posts.
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Line Brown
Farmer
Suis Agriculture
Leonard Grimes
State General Services
Ivill
Agriculture and Services
Rose Bird
Jushen
California
Richard Rommer
Warky
Wheal
Yale County
Department of Food and Agriculture
Department of Industrial Relations
Donald Vial Grimes
David Janssen
Grimes
Rominger
Brown
United Farm Workers
Cesar Chavez
Sovernor
Agriculture
Fred Heringer
California Farm Bureau Federation
Raminger
Goe
Edmund Brown Sr
Yorn County
Ieaders
Sidemt
Witnesses recount light and blast at Sansinena harbor disaster
Witnesses described a bright flame along the tanker’s starboard side near the dock and a quick flare before an explosion. Dockworkers and survivors recalled a sequence of flashes, a shipwrecked raft, and rescue by merchant vessels and Coast Guard aircraft as crews worked through the night.
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Willian Marron
San Pedro
Los Angeles Harbor
Marron
Ames
Raymond Bozutieh
Sansinena
Dorking
Berth 4
Vincenzo
Rafl
Conway
Moss
Coast Guard
Alotta
Navy
Freeport
Bahamas
Charles Conway
New York
Cosmopalit Shipping Co
Bozulich
Elsie Pemdleton
Wth St
Ports O' Wall
Pendleton
Continental Airlines
Jams Beylon
Los Angeles International
Beylon
Manflay
James W. Moron
Janata Party wins solid majority in 1977 India election
National news agency Samachar says Janata Party and allies secure 280 seats for an absolute majority in a 42 member parliament. Jagjivan Ram's Congress for Sherinoc racy adds 14 seats, while Congress Party falls from two thirds to Mb seats. Communist Party declines from 23 to 7. Regional groups and minor parties fill the rest.
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Agriculture
Jagjivan Ram
Congress For
Congress Party
Janata Alliance
pro-Moscow Communist Party
Indian election turmoil leaves Gandhi widow amid family ties
In New Delhi Mrs. Gandhi calmed after defeat and stayed with her two sons and their families. Son Sanjay missed a parliamentary bid as Janata vows to dismantle emergency era autocracy. Surinder Mahan cites Thursday PM pick. Morarji Desai and Ram seen as likely successors.
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Janata
Mra. Gandhi
Surinder Mahan
Petitica
Gandhi
Morarji Desai
Ram
Desai
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