Hoffa and Clay Rehearings Over Bugging Evidentiary Claim
Hoffa's lawyers press affidavits claiming electronic bugging of a Chattanooga hotel suite led to his indictment. Clay, stripped of the heavyweight crown, sought relief after a 1967 Houston jury conviction and five year sentence, with DOJ acknowledging overheard conversations but asserting no impact on prosecution. The court denied the government's bid to reconsider its ruling on eavesdropping in national security matters.
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Chattanooga
Hoffa
Chicago
S. George Burris
New York
Richard B. Austin
Clay
Houston
Tex
Department
Justice Department
Ovea
Landslide Strands LA Area Traffic on Three Freeways
A Sunday landslide 12 miles north of Castaic blocked the Golden State Freeway, Route 14, and Route 138, leaving only two lanes open. Builders used bulldozers as dirt kept sliding, diverting Bakersfield traffic toward Antelope Valley while Mammoth skiers clogged routes eastward. Patrols warned of possible repeat jams if the slide isn’t cleared by next weekend.
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Los Angeles
Castaic
Golden State Freeway
Pyramid Rock
Golden Staite
Gorman
Los Angeles County
Highway 14
Highway 138
State Division of Highways
Bakersfield
Antelope Valley
Mammoth Mountain
U.S
Hahn Reverses on Board Size to Seven Supervisors
County Supervisor Jen Hahn reversed his 1962 stance and endorsed enlarging the Board of Supervisors from five to seven members. He outlined a phased plan to reach seven by 1970 and beyond, plus an elected county mayor and an elective superintendent of public instruction, noting ballot amendments would require voter approval and charter change.
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Jenmeth Hahn
Hahn
Watts
Board of Supervisors
Los Angeles County
California
San Francisco
Coast Guard Works To Save Stricken Vessel Yavari
A Coast Guard team reboarded the freighter Yavari, 455 feet, now the Cody Victory, after weather eased. They pump out water in holds as captain Lewis Diaz Orjeda and crew struggle to stabilize the ship 950 miles southwest of San Francisco. The vessel had earlier listed and took on water while en route from Los Angeles to Korea with 9,000 tons of scrap steel.
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Cody Victory
Los Angeles
West Coast
Mawali
U.S. Coast
Korea
Hawaii
SOS
Jiong Beach
Coast Guard
Minnetonka
San Francisco
Barataria
High Court Restricts State Libel Law Reach
The Supreme Court ruled state libel laws do not govern radio and TV broadcasts on public interest unless malice is shown. The decision, in a Portland firm defamation case, narrows earlier 9th Circuit expansion of libel doctrine. Other actions included school funding tax challenges and prisoner appeals, with mixed outcomes across civil rights and criminal matters.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today Jet
Oregon
United Medical Laboratories
Portland
9Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9Th Circuit
Supreme Court
Chicago
le Chas. Pitzer & Co
Mets
Cour
Mehl Cub Dourmen
Culver City
Calif
Jal
Bn Tearyidu
Equal Employment
Onpurlundy
Commission
Eet
Peten Tae
Marin Carolina
Fis Ath
Circuit Court of Apdea
Aste
Giehricy
Gava
Ensaren
Bess
Billy
VA Center workers call programs slave labor at West Los Angeles
Domiciliary patients at the Veterans Administration Center in West Los Angeles accuse a rehabilitative work program of forced labor paying 25 to 60 cents an hour. VA official says only 450 of 1400 patients work, arguing pay is not wages and serves rehabilitation. dispute echoed by Long Beach VA spokesman and Senator Cranston.
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Veterans Administration Center
Los Angeles
Veterans Administration Hospital
Long Beach
West Los Angeles VA Center
Leonard A. Wilson
West Los
Charles $. Modica
Modica
Nixon Trudeau talk with focus on defense and alliances
President Nixon met for an hour and a half with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to discuss the antiballistic system and broad topics including East West relations arms control and the Middle East. Afterward they spoke with Rogers and Sharp about further talks and the two leaders shared informal remarks. Trudeau visited Washington for two days as the first head of state since Nixon took office, amid questions over Canada’s stance on continental defense and Ottawa's position on missile programs.
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Nixon
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
U.S
Ziegler
Middle East
Oval Office
Trudeau
Rogers
Mitchell Sharp
Key West
Fla
Washington
United States
Canada
Continental
Ottawa
Sirhan in Hypnotic Trance Doctor Testimony
Dr Bernard Diamond testified in the Los Angeles murder trial that Sirhan Bishara Sirhan killed Robert F Kennedy in a self induced hypnotic trance and suffered chronic paranoid schizophrenia. Diamond linked Sirhan's 1957 family incident and early life to dissociated states, noting an obsession with the Kennedy family and a Rosicrucian influence. The testimony detailed Sirhan's mind states during the assassination and earlier fantasies, with further discussion of his youthful failures and gambling.
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Sirhan Bishar Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Bernard J. Diamond
Sirhan
Los Angeles
Diamond
Et H
Pasadena
Dr. Diamond
Russell Parsons
Petty
Petye
Kennedy
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FBI
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Our
Jack
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Yevari
High Court
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United Press International
Wilson
Sible
Sen. Kennedy
Post Office
Michael C. McPharr
Post Office Department
Foreman & Clark
Lakewood Center
Los Altos Center
Welch’s
Welch's
San Antonio Dr
Atlantic
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