Four Republican candidates enter California attorney general race
The attorney general contest widens as four Republicans John L. Harmer Georg Deukmejian Evelle Younger and Spencer Williams announce bids while Democrat Thomas C. Lynch plans to run if he seeks reelection. Each vows tough court and crime policies amid Reagan era politics and marijuana law debates.
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Santa Clara County
Inflation Sways As Leading Indicators Rise 1 3 Percent
The Commerce Department reports the eight leading indicators jumped 1 3 percent in September signaling inflation remains less controlled. Five indicators increased while three fell, as coincident indicators dropped 3 tenths and lagging indicators rose 4 tenths.
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Expensive Homes Inch Toward Pacific Plunge
Four cliffside homes in San Pedro face collapse as a 300 foot fissure widens at a rate of about half an inch per hour. Geologists link the crevasse to landslides and recent earthquakes amid heavy winter rains. Officials say the main crack is 2 to 3 feet wide and extend 100 feet deep, with no evacuation planned for the nearby six homes. Peggy Slater reports visible cracks in her residence as neighbors watch the instability.
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Missing Bakersfield Girl Clings To Fence In Freeway Night
Four year old Jody Smith with missing front teeth spent 12 hours outdoors after claiming her parents, Ronnie and Betty Smith, ordered her to wait by a chain link fence near a freeway. Kern County authorities, swamped with calls, have yet to locate her parents while she remains in county welfare custody.
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Jody Smith
California
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Rhonda
Kern County
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Agnew adlibs at defense ceremony during speech
Vice President Spiro T Agnew spoke at a Defense Department event with prepared text. A misread line appeared on the page saying no public figure has gone down in history for shouting give me liberty or give me economy.
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UPI
Spiro T
Agnew
Defense Department
Apollo 12 to test SNAP-27 nuclear power on Moon
The Apollo 12 mission will deploy SNAP-27, a plutonium 238 nuclear electric power unit, to power the NASA ALSEP on the lunar surface for a year. SNAP-27 joins solar cells and other systems, marking a first in lunar nuclear power use.
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Department of Defense
Transplant Pioneers Say Procedures Are No Longer Experimental
Dr Norman Shumway and Dr Thomas Starzl argue heart and liver transplants are now therapeutic and safer, though insurers still label them experimental. They cite early results, ongoing rejection control work at Stanford, and note two of eight heart patients survive beyond one year. The experts caution on long term effects.
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Norman Shumway
Shumway
Thomas Starzl
University of Colorado Medical Center
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