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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1970
Page
4
Linda Kasabian testifies at the Tate murder trial recounting the Charles Manson group assault at actress Sharon Tate's home. She describes seeing killings, the car concealment, and the brutal stabbing of Frykowski and the assault on Abigail Folger and others, while police and courtroom tension unfold.
Dr Paine the U S Space Agency chief resigns citing family financial obligations and desire to return to private industry He says the NASA administrator role requires more months of effort than his personal situation permits President Nixon accepts his resignation With no successor named Deputy Administrator George Law would become acting administrator if no appointment is made by Sept 16 The report notes NASA’s prior contract controversy with GE and a reevaluation by a high level committeeات
About 60 persons have drowned in ponds rivers and lakes around Moscow over the last two weekends reports from the Tabor newspaper.
A commission headed by Gilbert W. Fugturah calls for decentralizing the Defense Department into functional segments led by three deputy secretaries and the creation of an independent weapons evaluation agency. It proposes abolishing major commands, forming strategic, tactical, and logistics commands, and prioritizing prototype development before production.
The bill allows local police to tap phones under restricted conditions to fight organized crime, arson, blackmail, burglary, destruction of property, and robbery. It imposes a minimum five year sentence on a second armed robbery and enables transfer of 16 and 17 year olds to adult court for murder, rape, armed robbery, burglary of a dwelling, or felonious assault.
The Sierra Club accused Standard Oil of California of reaping enormous profits from F-310, criticizing its air quality advertising as an empty achievement. President Philip Berry challenged the claim that the additive cleans air, while Standard Oil responded that it had provided data to the Sierra Club.
Western White House announced in San Clemente that June wholesale prices rose three tenths of one percent from May, seasonally adjusted, within the range of recent months. George Schultz said anti inflation programs were beginning to soar as Nixon faced a larger deficit and a $1.1 billion higher spending result for the 1970 fiscal year versus May forecasts.
Smog and high heat sweep from New York to Baltimore with 94 degree highs and a stagnant air mass. Authorities urge conservation as air pollution alerts expand from Washington to Philadelphia. officials warn of eye and throat irritation and risk for heart and lung patients.
Reagan's tax shift began March 4 and faced Democratic attempts to add school finance provisions. Guy Reagan argued for separate consideration and the plan moved to the Senate on May 22 after a May 4 rejection. In the Senate, Revenue and Taxation and Finance committees amended the bills three times each before final passage to the floor on July 15.
Washington conference committee reached tentative agreement on postal reform to create a U S postal service, grant an 8 percent retroactive raise to letter carriers, cut top pay reach time from 21 to 8 years, and place governance on a nine member board led by the president. A final House Senate vote was anticipated. In Mozambique a Portuguese army communiqué claimed 300 antigovernment guerrillas killed this month with 11 Portuguese troops lost.
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