Buried bodies found under Michigan home linked to Phantom Sniper case
Michigan deputies uncovered two women buried in a yard near Onsted in plastic bags with one bound by rope and another by electrical cord. Possible ties to four missing persons from Ann Arbor Toledo and Seattle linked to Gary A. Taylor aka Phantom Sniper, who faced sex assault charges and fled town after a lie detector offer.
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Michigan
Richard L. Germond
Cambridge Township
Onsted
Toledo, Ohio
Germond
Ann Arbor
Mich
Toledo
Ohio
Seattle
Wash
State Police Crime Laboratory
Lansing
Houston
Taylor
State Forensic Center
Ypsilanti, Mich
Burian
Vonnie Stuth
Governor to Appeal Ruling on North Coast Chair Firing
California Governor Brown will appeal a Ukiah court ruling blocking his attempt to fire John Mayfield as chairman of the North Coast Regional Coastal Zone Commission. The appeal may go to the District Court of Appeal in San Francisco or the state Supreme Court next week.
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Sacramento
UPI
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Brown
John Mayfield
North Coast Regional Coastal Zone Commission
Attorney General's
District Court of Appeal
San Francisco
State Supreme Court
Curtiss E. Wetter
Ukiah
Mayfield
Thomas
Bakersfield
California Highway Commission
State Department of Transportation
Inexpensive electricity and gas bill advances in Assembly
The measure by Assemblyman John Miller aims to guarantee low rates for poor and elderly residents to heat, cook, light, and refrigerate homes. It won approval 54 to 12, with Briggs seeking reconsideration. opponents warn of shifted costs to commercial users.
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Sacramento
UPI
Assembly
John Miller
Doakland
John V. Briggs
R-Fullerton
Portugal leftist rule could oust Socialist party
In Lisbon and Porto tens of thousands of Socialists protested against the left wing military rulers who may ban the Socialist party. Socialist leader Mario Soares urged the coalition government to curb Communist influence while the Revolutionary Council signaled it would block any party acting as intermediary between the Armed Forces Movement and the people. Politicians view the threat as aimed at the Socialist party, Portugal’s largest.
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Lisbon
UPI
Portugal
Armed Forces
Socialist Party
Porto
Mario Soares
Soares
Revolutionary Council
Armed Forces Movement
Communist Party
Phase one ends in SLA murder trial as jurors seated
In Los Angeles the first phase of the Remiro and Little SLA murder trial ended after six weeks and 144 witnesses. Judge Elvin Sheehy warned the white jury to ignore outside testimony and prepare for final arguments to begin soon.
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Sacramento
UPI
Sheehy
Clifford
Jefferson
Marcus Foster
Oakland
Remiro
Little
Foster
Robert Blackburn
Oakland Unified School District
Two Quentin inmates stage clever escape
Two convicts escaped San Quentin by hiding under a garbage truck crossing the Richmond San Rafael Bridge. They halted the vehicle with a copper wire shorting its electrical system and walked away when the driver reported mechanical problems. The fugitives are Peter Newman 32 and Colin L Quick 37, both serving life range terms for robbery and marijuana convictions.
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Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
San Francisco Bay
Richmond
Peter Newman
Shasta County
Colin L. Quick
San Bernardino County
Congress on Vacation Delays Key Bills and Veto Vote
Congress takes a 10 day break delaying action on 5 billion unemployment benefits a major housing bill and an energy program. Votes to override Ford’s strip mining veto and seating New Hampshire’s second senator are postponed until June 2.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Ford
Senate
New Hampshire
House
Market values up for State utilities
California 10 major privately owned utilities see operating property values rise 5.2 percent to 18.4 billion as initial determinations are set for August final rolls. Utilities include Pacific Lighting, PG and E, San Diego Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, General Telephone, AT and SF Railway, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, and Western Pacific.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Board of Equalization
Pacific Lighting Corp
Pacific Gas & Electric Co
San Diego Gas
Western Pacific Railroad
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Onsted, Mich
Texas
Gary A. Taylor
Phantom
Royal Oak
Tex
L.R. Thomas
Eureka
Houston Flournoy
Flournoy
North Coast
Wetter
Bill Metzler
Artisan
Laurie Morrow
Veterans Memorial
Los Angeles
UCLA
Charles Young
Institute of American Cultures
John C. Ries
SLA
Willie Wolfe
Quentin
San Quentin
Calif
William Merkle
San Quentin Prison
Mary Navarro
Riverside, Calif
Mary
Linda Hendren Shahnaz Bakhitiar
Jessie Greco, Owner
Jcpenney’s
Exxon
Bonanza
Santa Barbara County
Oil Town
U.S.A
QO. S. A
Poe
de la Guerra
Santa Barbara
Karen Thompson
Frank Sargius
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