California AG cites organized crime in visible and subtle forms
Attorney General Evelle Younger released a state DOJ report stating organized crime exists in California in visible and subtle forms. It notes at least 100 gang type killings in five years, with Chinese youth gangs like Wah Ching Yu Li and Suey Sing active in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles. The Hells Angels are described as expanding into large scale organized crime.
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Sacramento
UPI
Evelle J. Younger
State Department of Justice
California
Younger
San Francisco Bay Area
Californie
Wah Ching
Yu Li
Suey Sing
San Francisco - Oakland Bay Area
Los Angeles
Trudeau loses majority control in Canadian election
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Liberal party fails to win a majority in the 264 seat House of Commons finishing in a near deadlock with the Conservatives. Conservatives led by Robert Stanfield capture 107 seats with Liberals at 108, NDP 32 and Social Credit 15.
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Ottawa
UPI
Pierre Trudeau
Liberal Party
Canada
House of Commons
Liberals
Conservatives
Robert Stanfield
Socialist New Democratic Party
NDP
Social Credit
Trudeau
House
Lucien Lamoureux
Rod Lasalle
New Democrats
David Lewis
Panel urges removal of illegitimate child from mother
SACRAMENTO UPI The Social Welfare Board chairman says additional background and research bolster its controversial plan to place an illegitimate child for adoption if a mother has a third illegitimate baby and to take away the first child of an unwed mother 16 or younger. The board plans to discuss extending study into family planning and abortion at a Nov 16 Los Angeles meeting. Mitchell says the panel will stress illegitimacy’s severity and cite rising rates compared with other industrial nations.
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Sacramento
UPI
State Social Welfare Board
Robert Mitchell
Norwalk
Mitchell
New York Times
Los Angeles
Mixed reaction to peace plan in Northern Ireland details
Protestant and Catholic militants denounced Britain's outline for a future Ulster, while moderates in Ulster and Ireland expressed approval. Sinn Fein dismissed the plan as failed politics, and the Ulster Defense Association demanded security controls. The Whitelaw document affirms the Union but allows an Ulster regional government with minority input and continued UK security responsibility amid ongoing violence.
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Belfast
UPI
Britain
Northern Ireland
Ulster
Irish Republic
Sinn Fein
Irish Republican Army
Ulster Defense Association
IRA
Stormont
William Whitelaw
United Kingdom
Nation Faces Snow and Cold Across the U S
Snow and rain blanketed large parts of the country with heavy snow warnings in the eastern Arizona Colorado New Mexico mountains. Cold waves stretched into Oklahoma and New Mexico while flash flood watches covered Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Record low readings and scattered warmth appeared as Rawlins Wyoming hit 4 below and Corpus Christi Texas reported 81.
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United Press International
Nation
Arizona
Colorado
New Mexico
South Dakota
Iowa
Oklahoma
Texas
The
Panhandle
Texas Panhandle
Lead
Alamosa
Colo
Plains
Arkansas
Rockies
Rawlins
Wyo
Corpus Christi
Tex
Pony express spoof race challenges mail between cities
Nataprobu president James Boren leads six riders and eight horses on a staged pony express from Philadelphia to Washington to mock bureaucracy. Police in Baltimore warn no horse racing allowed. Boren says there will be no racing and the postal service offers no comment.
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Baltimore
UPI
National Association of Professional Bureaucrats
Nataprobu
Washington
Philadelphia
James Boren
Association
Boren
State Department
Pony Express
Postal Service
Israeli troops in full alert on Syria border amid latest clashes
Israeli commanders warn Syria to curb terrorism as air strikes and artillery bombardment continue along the Golan Heights. A 30 minute Syrian attack wounds one Israeli soldier while Israel hits targets near Damascus and a Syrian armored HQ north of the border.
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Tel Aviv
UPI
Syria
Middle East
David Elazar
Israel
Damascus
Golan Heights
Elazar
Lufthansa
Turkey
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Stan Tulledo
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