Assembly Sets Death Penalty Showdown Vote Date
Assembly approves a showdown vote to override Gov. Brown s veto on restoring the death penalty set for August 11. Bruce Young of Cerritos supports the override after undecided earlier. Senate backed the veto override 27 13 ensuring two thirds. Curtis Tucker will sustain the veto to push a voter ballot.
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Fire crews tackle massive northern California wildfires
Hundreds of firefighters battle the Mt. Diablo blaze near San Francisco and a 7,000 acre blaze near Big Sur as dozens more fires burn across Shasta Mendocino Lassen and Humboldt counties amid drought warnings. Firefighters from Louisiana and other crews assist while evacuations occur.
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Alaska Firefront Stretches Over Million Acres
In Fairbanks, Alaska, more than a million acres burned out of control near permafrost as thick smoke blankets the tundra. Fire officials report 55 fires, inversions hindering visibility and air drops, threatening eight towns and prompting possible evacuations for vulnerable residents.
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Laughing gas mixup kills five patients at Suburban General
NORRISTOWN Pa UPI the hospital’s new emergency room fed nitrous oxide instead of oxygen after feeder lines were mixed up officials say five patients died and 35 additional ER deaths are being investigated state Health Department officials are pursuing legal questions while focusing on the human impact the error was detected July 6 after a nurse noticed a patient turning blue and oxygen was not reaching the intended patients
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Manhattan Bomb Attacks Kill One, Wound Two at Offices
Two blasts hit Manhattan office buildings including Mobil Oil and the Department of Defense causing one death and two injuries. Police evacuated four other buildings after bomb threats. A caller claiming FALN responsibility notified ABC TV. The FALN has carried out past New York bombings.
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Elmer Chapman
Didi Calhoun
Fifth Madison Corp
Police hunt Son of Sam as large New York dragnet continues
Three hundred officers press the case against the killer dubbed Son of Sam while the next move rests with the suspect. The latest Brooklyn attack killed Stacy Moskowitz and wounded Robert Violante as the manhunt expands with FBI help and nationwide leads.
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Stacy Moskowitz
Robert Violante
Violante
Pasquale
Japan
FBI
Secret CIA mind control experiments reveal 1953 to 1964 scope
CIA Director Stansfield Turner testified before Congress that 1953 to 1964 MKULTRA experiments involved 154 institutions from colleges to prisons and 185 non government researchers in 149 sub projects. He described drug tests behavior studies hypnosis and covert drug delivery across the United States with 5000 pages found in CIA files and some subjects possibly unwitting.
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Congress Today
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Powers may have steered copter to miss baseball kids
UPI reports Francis Gary Powers may have steered his disabled television helicopter toward the ground to avoid hitting boys at a Little League diamond before it crashed near Van Nuys airport. Police and investigators note the craft came within yards of the players as it descended and exploded, killing Powers and cameraman George Spears.
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UPI
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Powers
George Spears
Dennis Ruegsegger
van Nuys
Mel Melton
Feds Say Enriched Uranium and Plutonium Not Significantly Unaccounted
Federal officials disclosed that less than one percent of enriched uranium and plutonium produced since 1947 are unaccounted for in a bookkeeping sense. They stressed no evidence of theft or loss and urged a congressional independent evaluation.
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Energy Research and Development Administration
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Brown
Congress
Richard du Val
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San Francisco
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