New Warden Brings Colorful Change to Lompoc FCI
Warden Gerald Farkas introduces bright muraled H Unit and bunting of color at FCI Lompoc, implementing functional unit management FUM to decentralize services. The plan aims to lower disciplinary cases and boost inmate education while preserving realism about crime.
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Lompoc
FCI
Stan Tulledo
H Unit
Gerald M. Farkas
Farkas
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Tallahassee
Florida
FUM
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Gerald Farkas
John Flinn
Khmer Rouge Capture Phnom Penh End Five Year War
United Press International reports Khmer Rouge insurgents captured Phnom Penh ending five years of war that killed about a quarter million Cambodians. Rebels formed a Revolutionary Liberation Committee, forced officials and monks to surrender, and pledged neutrality. Red Cross noted temporary hotel refuge concerns but said all is well.
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United Press International
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
White House
Revolutionary Liberation Committee
le Phnom
International Committee of the Red Cross
Red Cross
Geneva
Khmer Rouge
Bangkok
Norodom Sihanouk
Tanjug
Peking
Sihanouk
Khieu Samphan
Chau Seng
Europe
Paris
China
South Vietnam
Radio Phnom Penh
Chhim Chhuo
Lon Non
Lon Nol
Hawaii
Ministry of Information
Saigon
Thailand
Battambang
Regan begins prison term after bribery conviction
Phil Regan the 68 year old former singing cop surrendered at Santa Barbara County Jail and began a 1 to 14 year sentence for bribery related to a Santa Barbara condo rezoning. He was transferred to Chino to serve his term as his son Joseph looked on. Regan rose to fame in film in the 1940s and 1950s before his legal troubles.
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Santa Barbara
UPI
Phil Regan
Regan
Joseph
California Institution For Men
Chino
New York
Adeline
Irene Dunne
Rosie O’grady
Betty Grable
Fred Astaire
Superior Court
Arden Jensen
Connally bribery trial jury begins deliberation
A federal jury started deliberations in the bribery trial of former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally. Judge Hart warned jurors to weigh the informer's testimony of payoffs totaling $10,000 carefully and to consider Connally's grand jury omissions and motive.
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Jacobsen
Hart
Connally
Buena Vista Considers All-Year School Plan At PTA Meeting
Public meeting opens a series on the 45 15 Block Plan with pros and cons for year round schooling. Officials note pilot programs require staff and parent support and legal timing, with a possible September 1976 start if approved.
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Buena Vista Pta
Bill Williams
Buena Vista
Joe Carlin
Glen Wegner
Williams
Crossman
PTA
Kissinger warns against U.S. drift toward isolationism
Secretary of State Kissinger told the American Society of Newspaper Editors the United States must not retreat from international engagement despite Vietnam setbacks. He urged weighing new commitments to national honor, said the U.S. remains a key global actor, and called for restraint after Vietnam debates while warning against 1920s 1930s isolationism. He contrasted Ford's views on Russia and China and noted public mood remains hopeful overall. Fresh green vegetables sprouting all over the city's beat inflation public garden program.
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Washington
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
United States
South Vietnam
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Kissinger
Vietnam
U.S
Indochina
Ford
North Vietnam
China
Soviet Union
Russia
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Long Boretand
Sak Suthsakan
Duong van
Big) Minh
Nguyen van Thieu
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