Bill targets flaws in California coroner inquests
A California Assembly bill, approved with four dissenters, aims to reduce adversary litigation in coroner inquests, end the whitewash perception of justifiable homicide verdicts, and grant next of kin the right to submit witness lists. The measure would limit verdicts to cause of death and require disclosure of pertinent evidence, with fate depending on administration and avoiding deepening cover‑up suspicions.
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California
Senate
James A. Hayes
Long Beach
Long Beach Council Faces Earthquake Safety Dilemma
Long Beach city councilors grapple with enforcing an earthquake safety measure requiring unreinforced brick buildings to be demolished or rebuilt to standards. Amid protests they seek the city attorney’s view on legality while considering moral duty to protect residents.
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Long Beach
Raymond C
Kealer
OPEN FORUM letters on birth control and airport noise
Readers share views on sterilization as a solution to birth control, criticise past tax and subsidy Politics, and oppose central airport placement in a city. Letters discuss Cres into public policy, campaign contributions, and noise impacts from jet traffic.
Fair housing call sparks letter to editor in Long Beach
Don Anderson urges the editor to visit a new ghetto proposal claiming 242 years can transform a community when the right people arrive. He hints that the “right people” are the original residents who leave amid panic selling and aggressive real estate tactics.
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Los Angeles
Long Beach
Walter Ross
Don Anderson
Reader Anderson
Iblock-bunting
Riot calm in ghetto unrest study notes lull
Washington report notes a Nixon era calm with only a modest number of racial disturbances. The Brandeis Center tracks aggression and the Pentagon braces for potential violence, with explanations pondering the absence of a King assassination scale riot in 1968.
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Washington
Republic
Brandeis University Center For the Study
Pentagon
Martin Luther King
Directorate for Civil Disturbance Planning and Operations
The Pentagon runs a 2.7 million underground crisis center with a Univac on 24 hour duty monitoring civil disorder. A 150-city network links federal and local agencies, utilities, media, and community leaders to rapid force deployment and information sharing. The plan targets vulnerable neighborhoods and stages federal back up to support state and local police forces.
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Univac
Defense
Clark Clifford
Defense Department
Pennsylvania
Detroit
Johnson
Michigan
George Romney
Clifford
NAACP
Urban League
Union
Chamber of Commerce
FBI
Intals
Mini War in Middle East Grows Amid Talks
New York reports on a tense Arab Israeli mini war intensifying as Soviet American discussions on a Middle East settlement proceed without progress. Diplomats warn force may be necessary as neither side is ready for settlement and hope remains uncertain.
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New York
Middle Zaslam
U.S
Middle East
Arbitration shifts in Arab Israeli talks amid superpower tension
Flora Lewis analyzes the Arab Israeli dispute as a struggle over a small self ruled land. She argues talks should shift from direct conflict to preventing superpower entanglement, warning against a permanent UN force and Soviet American domination. She cites Eugen Loebl on imperialist solutions and urges defusing brinkmanship in the Middle East.
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Cairo
Moscow
U.S
Ians
World Organization
Washington
Eugen Loebl
Soviet Union
Interplay
Loebl
City University faculty vote on union affiliation delays
The article notes university faculty debating unionization, with Albert H Bowker and Alan S Boyd cited on the issue. It argues that college teachers may not be seen as sanitation workers and discusses highway congestion as an ongoing policy challenge.
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Albert H. Bowker
City University of New Yorks
Alan S. Boyd
Trans+portation
Sidewalk Senate Voices From Amatia Neighborhood
A series of informal reminiscences from residents Juline Young Gary Ramirez Pete Kendall Joan Odum and Otis Gates. They recount childhoods in Amatia with stories of luxury kidnapping parental harmony divorce and family life in a lively, nostalgic tapestry.
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Pete Kendall
Germany
Joan Odum
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