Long Beach D A expands corruption probe after Mayer arrest
District Attorney John Van de Kamp announced four investigative teams will pursue a broad corruption inquiry after the arrest of City Planning Director Ernest Mayer Jr. for bribery. More than 24 citizens have volunteered information as prosecutors target architects real estate developers and government workers. Information hints at parties with risqué material and marijuana found in Mayer properties as investigators pursue multiple leads in a widening case.
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Alty
John van de Kamp
Ernest Mayer Jr
van de Kamp
Long Beach
Bill Dawson
Dawson
Page Bt
Mayer
Marina Pacifica
William Burnett
Internation Towers
Ocean Blvd
Coppedge
Ballance
Senate approves permanent intelligence watchdog panel
The Senate voted 72 to 22 to establish a 15 member Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence with exclusive power to oversee the CIA and authorize its budget. The panel will share jurisdiction over other agencies with existing committees and ends a long dispute over its authority.
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Washington
Senate
Selari
Central Intelligence Agency
Defense Intelligence
Frank Church
D-T
Church
Congress
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Senate Armed Services
House
FBI
Judiciary Committee
Defense Intelligence Agencies
Armed Services Committee
Brown shifts campaign to West as primaries loom
Gov. Brown, after a Maryland upset over Carter, campaigns in Oregon for his write in bid while Carter heads to California. Reagan fends off Ford in Nevada as Ford preps California visit. Oregon Nevada primaries are next Tuesday with California June 8. Brown holds a Portland park tally and meets editors while ruling out the vice presidency. Reagan campaigns in Reno Elko and Las Vegas saying first ballot victory still possible for the party.
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Sacramento
Guv
Brown
Jimmy Carter
Maryland
Oregon
Carter
California
Ronald Reagan
Nevada
Ford
Portland
U.S
Tom McCall
Reagan
Reno
Elko
Las Vegas
Michigan
Burned body of girl found in Wilmington
Unidentified young Black girl, 11 to 18 years old, about 5 feet tall and 110 pounds, with French curled hair and wearing a multicolored shirt, black corduroy pants, and green wedges, was found burned in a vacant Wilmington lot. Police received report of an orange glow at 4 a.m. and a motorcyclist found the body at 12:15 p.m. The scene was on Eubank Avenue and Q Street.
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Wilmington
Duane Gansimer
Harbor Division
al Eubank Avenue
Q Street
Fire damages Long Beach hotel bar and shop
Eight rooming-house residents are homeless after a 3:28 PM fire at 243-2441 B Anaheimy Street Long Beach. The blaze gutted the Brentwood Hotel and Bargain Mart Ltd and caused about 100000 dollars in damage. No injuries reported. cause under investigation. Fire was fought by Long Beach units led by Battalion Chief Garrett Cady.
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Garrett Cady
Brentwood Hotel
Pastime Tavern
Anaheim Street
Tom Shaw
Long Beach
Anaheimy St
Cady
J. E. Anaheim
Brentwood
Anaheim
Bargain Mart Ltd
Red Cross
Sniper Kills Man Riding in Auto in Walnut Park
A 19 year old Huntington Park man was killed by a sniper while riding in a car in Walnut Park. The victim Thomas Lozano of 6730 Middleton Street was struck once in the head about 9 p.m. as the auto traveled east on Florence Avenue. Driver Renacio Trujillo, 19, of East Los Angeles was not injured and told deputies he honked the horn at two Huntington Park officers at Florence Avenue and Marbrisa Street as Lozano died. Homicide investigators searched the unincorporated county area.
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Huntington Park
Walnut Park
Firestone Sheriff's Deputies
Thomas
Lozano
Middleton St
Florence Avenue
Renacio Trujillo
Los Angeles
Trujillo
Marbrisa Street
Doctors rebuild girl's deformed face
Ida Hays born with a wide nose apart eyes set far apart and protruding jaw. In New York University Hospital a team led by Dr. John Marquis Converse began a six to eight hour reconstructive facial operation to improve her features and social prospects. Neurosurgery involved removing bone and repositioning the skull and brain to allow new orbit placement. The Hays family from La Grande Oregon raised nearly $10,000 through auctions, bake sales and gifts to fund the operation.
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Alton Blakeslee
New York
Ida Hays
Ida
Jacquie Hays
la Grande
Ore
New York University Hospital
John Marquis Converse
Hoe
Institute For
Converse
Edgerton sells boat partnership amid pressure over mayor ask
Long Beach City Councilman Wallace Edgerton pulled out of a Queen s Way Bay Charter Service partnership after feeling pressure from questions about the coownership. He divested his stake Tuesday in the $26 000 power boat bought recently with developer Jay Feinberg and others including Whitey Littenfield and Stewart Elner, amid concerns the alliance could look problematic.
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Long Beach
Wallace Edgerton
John “Mansell
Queen's Way Bay Charter Service
Edgerton
Jay Feinberg
Feinberg
Queen's Way Tilton
Whitey Littefield
Stewart Elner
Elner
Queen's Way Hay
Plank to Break Up Major Oil Firms Urged by Demo Platform
A political platform linked to the Democratic side calls for dismantling large oil companies. It outlines a plan to reduce market concentration and promote competition, signaling a broad reform agenda. The article notes reactions from industry groups and policy experts on A-13.
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Gence Agency
National Security Agency
Walter F. Mondale
Minnesota
Walter Huddleston
Kentucky
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
West
Associated Press
Udall
L.B. Hotel
Russ MacDonald
Sniper
Man
Marbrisa
Joanne Norris
INST
Todas Independent
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Calif
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Ray
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