Reagan to Sign California Death Penalty Bill Today
California Governor Ronald Reagan plans to sign a bill reinstating the death penalty for 11 murder types effective Jan. 1. The ceremony at the Marriott Hotel will be attended by Attorney General Evelle Younger and Sen. George Deukmejian among others.
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UPI
Ronald Reagan
California
Marriott Hotel
Evelle J. Younger
Sen
George Deukmejian
Hunt testifies to fabricated cables linking Kennedy era to Diem death
E Howard Hunt Jr. testified at Senate Watergate hearings that in 1971 he was directed to fabricate cables to implicate the Kennedy administration in the 1963 killings of Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu. He said Colson urged a plot to suggest a Catholic U S administration conspired in the assassination. He described White House access after the arrest and his belief he acted as a secret government agent.
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UPI
White House
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Kennedy
Diem
E. Howard Hunt Jr
Hunt
Senate
Charles W. Colson
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngo Dinh Nhu
CIA
G. Gordon Liddy
John N. Mitchell
John W. Dean III
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Colson
Liddy
Howard Hughes
Las Vegas
Nev
Hank Greenspun
Daniel Ellsberg
Valley Club Picnic and Youth Photo Day at Santa Rosa Park
Valley Club members enjoy a picnic in Santa Rosa Park while hundreds of youth football players have their team photos taken in Ryan Park on Saturday. Forecast calls for fair weather through Tuesday with variable coastal clouds, small temperature changes, highs in the 60s at the coast to 70s inland, and northwesterly winds 10 to 20 mph. Tides show highs of 5.8 feet at 9:56 AM and 5.6 feet at 10:08 PM, lows 0.0 feet at 3:41 AM and 0.4 feet at 4:04 PM.
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Ryan Park
Skylab 2 astronauts prep splashdown after two months in orbit
The Skylab 2 crew Alan Bean Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma finish stowing two months of orbital research aboard the Apollo ferry ship and prepare for a Tuesday afternoon splashdown off California. Weather at sea looks favorable though Hurricane Irah tracks nearby, with winds around 17 mph waves five feet and visibility ten miles.
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UPI
California
Alan L. Bean
Owen K. Garriott
Jack R. Lousma
Pacific Ocean
San Diego
Baja California
Garriott
Baja
One Dead and Eight Hurt in Weekend Traffic Mishaps
A fatal motorcycle crash near Los Alamos claimed Stephen Michael Smith, 19, as the sole death. Accidents Friday through Sunday in the Lompoc area left eight others injured, including 15 year old Alan Oldham after a bicycle collision near Cabrillo High School.
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Stephen Michael Smith
West Covina
California Highway Patrol
Los Alamos
Smith
Vandenberg Village
Fred Wayne Goodgame
St. Andrews Way
Cabrillo High School
Young Oldham
Lompoc
Richard Guevara
San Jose
Highway 1
Marya Avila
Buellton
Cordell Beaird
Santa Ynez
John Elliott
Cottonwood Ave
Vafb
Michael Munioz
Feliz
Mission Hills
Connie Zingshine
Miss Zingshine
Lompoc Hospital
Calvin M. Dekker
Vaf'b Hospital
Debra K. Dekker
Bonnie Dean Degueyter
North M St
Apt. B
H Street
Nancy Estelle Gabel
Santa Maria
Oil stand, no payment, no drilling
California should not allow more oil drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel while the attorney general’s office has not collected damages from the 1969 oil eruption. Santa Barbara city and county officials argued the state Lands Commission should maintain its moratorium on new drilling and pursue full compensation from Union Oil and others in a federal suit.
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Dick Praul
State of California
Santa Barbara Channel
State Lands Division
Santa Barbara
State Lands Commission
University of California, Santa Barbara
Union Oil Co
Houston Flournoy
Sacramento
Barry Cappello
Marvin Levine
Union Oil Company
Los Angeles
Wye signal upgrade proposed to four phase control
Santa Barbara County traffic engineering committee backs a four phase signal at the Lompoc Wye to reduce traffic crashes and improve left turn flow on Lompoc Casmalia Road. The project costs about 2000 dollars with 50 percent county state cost sharing sought for participation.
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Lompoc Wye
Santa Barbara
Lompoc-Casmalia Road
Attorneys to file to stop Agnew investigation
Vice President Spiro Agnew's lawyer says a suit will be filed this week to halt the federal probe into his alleged Maryland kickback scheme amid a flood of leaks. The move coincides with renewed focus on the Watergate Senate inquiry and the formation of a defense fund.
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UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Maryland
Senate
Judah Best
Laird
CBS
Face the Nation
Nixon
White House
J. Marsh Thomson
Justice Department
Moscone Sets Gubernatorial Bid in Lompoc Events
Sen George Moscone Democratic floor leader and gubernatorial hopeful presented his platform to reporters at a Press Club conference in Lompoc and attended a Democratic Club dinner later. He urged individual effort against Reagan tax proposals, criticized regulators on porn policy, rejected the highway trust fund concept, and supported the Brown Secret Meeting Act for public government meetings.
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Highway 135
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Polaris Ave
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