Rodda Warns Tax Hikes May Be Needed for Property Relief
Senate Finance Chair Albert Rodda says higher sales or income taxes may be the only way to fund property tax relief as California faces budget surpluses and a school funding mandate. He warns voters will push their own measures if lawmakers stall. Rodda backs acting now despite Brown opposing broad tax increases. He notes groups are drafting ballot property tax relief initiatives.
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Education Committee
Premier Miki to resign as Japan party president
Premier Takeo Miki, known as Mr Clean, announces his resignation as Liberal Democratic Party president to clear the way for a successor. Takeo Fukuda emerges as likely next leader as the LDP plans a Thursday vote and Christmas Eve premiering. Miki calls for sweeping reforms to end factionalism and to open a full public investigation of Lockheed bribes.
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Pendleton base finds 17 Ku Klux Klan members
At Camp Pendleton Maj. Gen. Hof fman says an inquiry found 17 Klan members on the base among 27 000 personnel and that most are gone. He calls the KKK a miniscule operation while noting racial violence prompted congressional attention and potential court martials for fourteen black Marines.
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Reform group ranks TV violence. Quest tops list
A National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting study found Quest the most violent show this season, with NBC showing the most violent programs and CBS the least. Sponsors cited include Chevrolet, Anacin, Sears, Proctor and Gamble, and Frito Lay, while Peter Paul Cakes and Hallmark were among the least violent sponsors.
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CBS
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Efferdent
Quasar Television
Gilmore's Last Will Revealed Amid Death Row Controversy
Handwritten will found after Gary Gilmore's second death attempt names uncle Vera Damico as heir to a cache of food, money, clothing, and a radio while excluding his mother Bessie Gilmore. The document lists items and funds and notes burial desires and inaccessible letters. Damico runs a Provo shoe repair shop and Gilmore had lived with her after parole.
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UPI
Gary Gilmore
Vera Damico
Gilmore
Bessie Gilmore
Milwaukie, Ore
U.S. Supreme Court
Damico
Provo
Utah
Bennie Bushnell
Oregon State
Ron Stanger
Fourth District Court
Robert Bullock
Revenge motive linked to Mexican family in Meza brothers killings
Three Meza brothers were gunned down outside their California workplace in a high‑profile revenge killing tied to the Ballardo family in Mexico. The brothers, once police in Culiacan, fled to the United States under false names after a Ballardo son’s killing. Their mother and widows say the shooting was targeted by a powerful Mexican family seeking vengeance.
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Julieta
Los Angeles Times
Longet to Stand Trial Despite Diary Evidence Bar
Glenwood Springs Colorado prosecutor says singer Claudine Longet will face felony manslaughter charges for the death of lover Vladimir Sabich with trial set to begin January 3. The Colorado Supreme Court barred use of Longet's diary and other evidence.
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