Malpractice bill clears Assembly in California
The California Assembly approved AB928 to curb malpractice insurance rates and create carrier pools to supply policies where unavailable. It targets seven months of rate relief after insurer hikes up to 400 percent and follows Gov Behr and CMA opposition to rival plans while Brown weighs long term reforms.
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UPI
Assembly
McLennan
R-Downey
California Edical Association
Edmund G. Brown Jr
CMA
Peter Behr
R-Tiburon
Los Angeles
Kenneth Hahn
State urges vet jobs not refugee for California
The Brown administration pressed the federal government to bar Vietnamese refugees from competing with 655,000 unemployed Vietnam veterans for scarce jobs. Obledo cited interviews at Camp Pendleton indicating 48,000 refugees may settle in California and warned welfare rolls could rise. Carleson criticized Brown and Obledo for fostering refugee fears while noting eligibility issues on welfare rolls.
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Sacramento
UPI
Brown
Mario Obledo
Camp Pendleton
California
John Eisenhower
Advisory Committee On
Obledo
America
State Department
Robert Carleson
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Carleson
Washington
Ford Vows Action as Congress Fails on Energy
President Ford in a 14 minute address blames Congress for inaction on energy policy and announces new measures including a $1 per barrel tariff on foreign oil starting June 1 and a 60 cent levy on imported refined products. He says gasoline prices will rise about 1.5 cents per gallon by August.
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Ford
Congress
Federal Energy Administration
Doctors Strike Halts Surgery Across Southern California
The anesthesiologists strike stops all but emergency operations in 111 hospitals across six counties with 22 000 workers laid off or placed on reduced hours. Northern hospitals lose 300 000 daily, while the Assembly passes a stopgap cap on malpractice premiums as Gov Brown appeals for an end to the walkout.
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Los Angeles
UPI
San Fernando Valley
San Francisco Bay Area
Southern California Hospital Council
John Brewer
State Assembly
Sacramento
Senate
Edmund G. Brown Jr
UN Extends Golan Peacekeeping Force for Six Months
The U N Security Council voted to keep the peacekeeping force on the Golan Heights and in the Sinai Desert in operation for six more months. The vote was 13 to 0 with China and Iraq not participating. Syria reportedly approves the extension to November 31. A Israeli official warns Egypt aims to isolate Israel and push for a U S imposed settlement.
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United Nations Security Council
New York
U.N
Golan Heights
China
Iraq
Syria
Sinai Desert
Middle East
Egypt
Israel
United States
U.S
Farm labor bill nears Assembly floor vote in California
Governor Brown's labor bill for California agriculture advances to the Assembly floor with a Thursday vote forecast. The plan creates secret ballot elections, limits secondary boycotts, allows harvest-time strikes, requires farm workers to join unions, and lets growers hire nonunion labor during walkouts.
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Sacramento
UPS
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Organized Labor
Teamsters and
United Farmworkers
Senate
Assembly
Brown
Labor Relations Committee
Mike Antonovich
Glendale
Ways and Means Committee
Robert Burke
Huntington Beach
San Joaquin Valley
Gordon Duffy
R-Hanford
Frank Lanterman
la Canada
Dunlap
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