Bardelli Bound Over For Murder For Hire Trial
Lompoc liquor store owner Philip Bardelli was bound over to Santa Maria Superior Court on charges that he solicited the murders of three Lompoc men. Judge Eckhoff upheld the solicitation count but threw out the conspiracy charge. Bardelli, 32, faces arraignment July 29 with bail at 15,000.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc
Philip Joseph Bardelli
Santa Maria Superior Court
Robert Eckhoff
Lompoc Justice Court
Bardelli
Eckhoff
Loren Sutton
Las Vegas
New
Sutton
James Westwick
Nev
John Coday
Kevin Coffelt
Axel Jansson
Coday
Star
Ryan Earle Swinney
W. Ocean Ave
Swinney
Westwick
Ruben Talavera
George Lee Taylor
John Doe
Army and Air Force push retirements to refresh leadership
The Army and Air Force are urging many generals and colonels to retire to allow younger officers to advance as peacetime downsizing and Army recruitment shift. About 60 of 450 generals, 64 of 285 Navy admirals, and 125 of 400 Air Force generals retire by Sept. 1, with retirement pay law quirks affecting timing.
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Washington
UPI
Army
Air Force
Defense Department
Vietnam
Butz says Soviet grain purchase will have minimal bread price impact
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz told the Senate Agriculture Committee that the pending Soviet grain deal would have only a minimal effect on bread prices. He noted a Friday department estimate of record U.S. corn and grain crops boosting global supplies, with private traders discussing Moscow deals though no confirmation.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Earl L. Butz
Butz
Senate Agriculture Committee
Agriculture Department
Moscow
Church finds no evidence of CIA agents in White House
Sen. Church's Select Committee states no proof the CIA planted undercover agents in the White House or other agencies. He notes continued inquiry into Alexander Butterfield's alleged CIA contact role, while Ret. Col. Fletcher Prouty cites other CIA contact figures in government and discusses Haig's possible past CIA ties.
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Church
Butterfield
CIA
White House
Washington
UPI
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Senate
Central Intelligence Agency
Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
Alexander Butterfield
Nixon
Air Force
Fletcher Prouty
Alexander M. Butterfield
Prouty
Alexander M. Haig
Richard M. Nixon
al Haig
Army
Haig
Henry A. Kissinger
House Armed Services Committee
Kissinger Gromyko See SALT Talks Narrow Nuclear Gap
Secretary Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko reported progress in Geneva on a SALT pact to limit nuclear delivery systems to 2400 and 1320 MIRVed missiles. They cautioned on Middle East hopes and noted further meetings to pursue verification and thresholds.
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Geneva
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
Andrei A. Gromyko
Middle East
Kissinger
Bonn
Yitzhak Rabin
Rabin
Gromyko
Salt
America
Vladivostok
U.S
Moscow
Lompoc CSEA rejects latest school salary offer
Members of the California School Employes Association in Lompoc last night overwhelmingly rejected the Lompoc Unified School Board offer of a 2.44 percent raise plus changes in the pay schedule and range. The vote, taken at Lompoc Junior High, leaves 280 classified workers paid on last year’s schedule while salary talks move to a three member fact finding panel.
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California School Employes Association
CSEA
Lompoc
Alice Illigan
Robert Halstead
Halstead
Johnson
Milligan
CEC
Sirica frees Cubans tied to Watergate bugging
U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica reduces the sentences of four Cuban-Americans linked to the Watergate break in to time served. Bernardo Barker faces no further prison time, while Frank A. Sturgis Eugenio R. Martinez and Virgilio R. Gonzalez have their probation erased. The men were involved in the June 17 1972 Watergate incident and pled guilty to conspiracy burglary bugging and wiretapping. James W. McCord Jr. was released earlier this year, with Liddy and Hunt remaining in prison.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
John J. Sirica
Democratic Party
Bernardo Barker
Frank A. Sturgis
Eugenio R. Martinez
Virgilio R. Gonzalez
Watergate
James W. McCord Jr
Nixon
Sirica
G. Gordon Liddy
E. Howard Hunt, Jr
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Beattie Park
Crestview Terrace
Jack Anderson
Parks and Recreation
Lompocan
Rob Northrop
Parks and Recreation Commission
McDonalds
Cooperage
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Stuart H. Sherman, Jr
Strategic Aerospace Division
William M. Schoning
Center
James M. Keck
Strategic Air Command
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