Justice Dept. submits new brief on racial quotas to Carter
The Justice Department sent President Carter a new draft brief on racial quotas and affirmative action in the Bakke case. Officials expect a decision this week. Rep. Parren Mitchell said the brief should support affirmative action, while others weigh how strongly the administration backs such programs.
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University of California Medical School At
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Bakke
California Supreme Court
Robert Havel
White House
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Griffin Bell
Wade McCree Jr
Drew Days III
Rep
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McCree
Kent State shootings case reopened and gym decision
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a retrial in the $46 million Kent State lawsuit against Gov. James Rhodes and others, while nearby campus construction for a gym proceeds despite protests. Relatives of four students and nine wounded seek damages from Rhodes, Kent State officials, and National Guardsmen. previous trial ended in jury acquittals.
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Ohio
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U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Cal Monument
Ohio National Guardsmen
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Cleveland
Robert White
Guardsmen
Silence Lifts as Chinatown Youth Killings Prompt Rewards
San Francisco police report a surge of tips in Chinatown gang warfare that has claimed six lives since Sept. 4. The city offers 25,000 dollars for information leading to convictions in the Golden Dragon attack and an additional 10,000 for retaliation killings, while investigators seek suspects beyond the publicly known details.
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Prospects of record corn crop eyed for lower food prices
The Agriculture Department forecast a record 6.229 billion bushels of corn as of Sept 1, boosting hopes that 1978 retail food prices will rise more slowly. Production of all American crops totals a record 125 percent of the 1967 average, up 2.5 percent from last year. Robert Lowell, Nobel laureate and outspoken activist, died in a New York taxi at age 60 after a World War II draft refusal.
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Hjort
New York
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Lowell
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Manhattan
Elizabeth Hardwick
United States
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Wallace files for divorce from Cornelia Wallace
Gov. George C. Wallace petitions for divorce in Montgomery Alabama citing irretrievable breakdown and incompatibility after 12 year marriage to Cornelia Wallace. The case notes tapes from private recordings and a pre trial conference set for September 20 in Montgomery County Circuit Court.
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Ala
UPI
George C. Wallace
Cornelia
Wallace
Beach Strawberry Faces Extinction Threat in Coastal Belt
A rare wild beach strawberry found from Santa Barbara County to the Oregon border is threatened with extinction. UC pomology professor Royce S. Bringhurst says development and human activity are eroding the fragile coastal habitat. The plant is drought and salt tolerant, requires little fertilizer and resists root diseases.
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UPI
Santa Barbara
Oregon
Royce S. Bringhurst
University of California
Bringhurst
Copley executive denies CIA ties
Helen K. Copley, Copley Newspapers chief, says she is convinced no Copley News Service reporters were on the CIA payroll. She noted Penthouse earlier claimed CNS involvement but says 23 CNS staffers were not named and that the issue should be forgotten as from earlier decades. She urged balance between environmentalists and business for California’s economy and mutual understanding.
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Penthouse
California reports $27 million in MediCal abortions
California's Health Department estimates 77 000 medical abortions funded by tax dollars last year with an average hospital based cost of 600 and outpatient cost of 310. 39.4 percent went to doctors fees and services and 33.2 percent to outpatient clinic and hospital charges.
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API
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Carter Administration
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Health Department
Brown
California
Medi- Cal
Attorney to call 45 Hughes' will witnesses
Las Vegas based attorney Harold Rhoden will call 45 witnesses including gas station attendant Melvin Dummar and Hughes aides to prove that a will given to Mormon Church headquarters after Hughes death was written by Howard Hughes. The list includes two chemists who say the ink matches Hughes 1968 memos. Hearings set ground rules for a jury trial beginning Oct 3. Rhoden, executor of the Mormon Will, also complained of phone tapping.
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Nev
UPI
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Melvin Dummar
Howard Hughes
Hughes
Rhoden
Texas
James Dilworth
Hanna Targeted in Korean Bribery Probe
House investigators subpoena former California congressman Richard Hanna amid a widening probe into Tongsun Park’s influence buying. Hanna, 63, retired in 1974, moved to Arkansas, and denies any wrongdoing while Park faces 36 felonies. The inquiry cites Hanna as Park's agent in Congress.
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UPI
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Day in Sacramento and policy shifts headline
Day in Sacramento reports on an executive order creating the Southwest Border States Commission, steps toward an Alaska-Canada gas pipeline, and several California bills. Highlights include pay raises for statewide officials minus the governor, birth certificate changes after sex changes, and reforms in unemployment, terrorism threats, housing law, grand jury indictments, privacy rights, and child-focused food advertising requests to the FTC.
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Cullen
Long Beach
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Los Angeles
CAB proposes 13 cities as gateway to Europe flights
Civil Aeronautics Board names 13 U S cities as new gateway routes for transatlantic service and selects Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines as the carriers. If approved, non stop routes would link northern states to Scandinavia Paris London and Texas and the Midwest to London. The action follows a separate decision approving a $256 round trip standby fare New York to London.
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UPI
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U.S
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Begin forecasts no war during next 12 months in Israel
Prime Minister Menahem Begin told Israelis at the start of the Jewish new year that there will not be another Middle East war in the coming year. He urged optimism, saying war is avoidable and peace is inevitable, though it could take time.
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