House backs energy department with five year life limit
The House voted to create a new energy department to unite scattered programs, abolish three agencies, and grant broad powers via a commission. A Dec 31 1982 sunset was approved for the agency unless Congress renews it. A Conyers amendment to strip foreign oil buying powers was defeated.
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House
Department of Moncy
Congress
Energy Department
Prese
Carter
Senate
Houseto
Je New Semey
White House
James R. Schlesinger
James Y Bill
R-N.c
City Manager Lipsky Declines Rehire for Modesto Officer John Miller
City Manager Garth Lipsky refused to rehire former Modesto Police Officer John F. Miller despite an 18 month hearing series and a Personnel Commission ruling. He offered a compromise to reinstate from August 1976 to June 1977 if Miller resigns, citing morale and administration disruption. Miller vows to pursue court action to defend a police officer’s right to speak out.
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Lipsky
Modesto
John Miller
Garth Lipsky
John F. Miller
City Personnel Commission
Miller
Life without parole bill clears California Senate
In a 22-9 vote the California Senate sent SB 220 by Sen. Milton Marks to the Assembly as supporters pitched life without parole as an alternative to capital punishment. Gov. Brown’s veto on a death penalty measure looms while opponents argue it does not reflect public will and fails as a deterrent.
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State Senate
Milton Marks
San Francisco
Assembly
Marks
Senate
Edmund Brown Jr
Brown
California
George Deukmejian
Long Beach
State Supreme Court
Deukmejian
Fife
John Briggs
R Fullerton
Briggs
Nate Holden
D-Culver City
Supersonic Jets and Economic Sparks Across World
Read as a compact world wrap covering findings that supersonic jets may threaten ozone less than once thought, a jobs drop below 7 percent for the first time in 244 years, and a blend of political and regional notes including a saccharin ban freeze proposal, a Kentucky fire casualty, water project solvency talks, a state budget passage, and notable obituaries and events from Asia and Europe.
Water use drops as citizens heed new rules
Area residents in Stanislaus San Joaquin Tuolumne and Merced counties are conserving water amid new rules. Some agencies impose restrictions while others rely on voluntary cuts. Modesto and Stanislaus County enacted 3 PM to 9 PM bans. Tuolomne PG E districts enforce 35 50 percent cutbacks. San Joaquin Livingston and Groveland residents face enforcement and fines. early May 1977 data show widespread compliance.
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Tuolumne
Merced
Modesto
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Livingston
Tualumne County
San Joaquin County
Groveland
Cuba frees 10 American prisoners in gesture toward ties
Washington reports the Fidel Castro government released immediately 10 of 30 Americans held in Cuban jails amid a limited envoy exchange with the United States. State Department spokesman John Trattner framed it as a gesture within tentative steps toward normal relations, noting political prisoners remain and deserve consideration.
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UPI
United States
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Te House
Carter
State Department
John Trattner
Trattner
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Rosalynn Carter
Peru
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