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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1972
Page
6
U S jets accidentally bombed a coastal area near Hoi An and Da Nang killing at least 49 and wounding 29. Two Air Force F4s and four Navy A-4s dropped several 50 pound bombs amid a mission to support South Vietnamese ground troops.
Erla Mae Williams, convinced she wore five dynamite sticks detonatable by remote, withdrew $2,180 from a bank and handed it to a tall robber armed with a pellet gun. Police later said cylinders were not dynamite. Williams escaped, later telling investigators the robber planned to flee toward Mexico or Canada.
UPI reports a night stakeout on a Left Bank apartment broke an international drug ring. Agents seized 132 pounds of pure heroin valued at about 26 million dollars for U.S. streets and arrested five Frenchmen two Mexicans and a Uruguayan. The group linked traffickers smuggling heroin from Marseille via Latin America into the United States. Suspects faced arraignment in French courts.
Two armed men attempted to rob Radlers cocktail lounge at 5520 Del Amo Blvd. Sheriff deputies, alerted by a phone call from bartender John Campanale, engaged the suspects in an alley. One fled, later wounded. Arturo Merjio, 32, was found nearby with a shoulder wound. Mario Arciniego, 34, was captured uninjured nearby.
A reader asks about the fictitious business name statement law passed on July 1 1971. It requires publication in a newspaper legal notices section and filing with the Los Angeles County Clerk. Non compliance bars the business from using its name in court actions. records are public and accessible for verification.
A reader asks about being billed for personal property tax after selling a mobile home in late March. The answer explains that owners of record on March 1 owe that year’s tax, with no prorating, so the seller remains liable for the tax and penalties even if a previous overrule occurred, and the carport attached to the home is taxable.
Patrolman EB Wagner leapt to avoid a speeding car that struck him and sent him 1 foot into northbound lanes on the San Diego Freeway. The collision caused a three-car pileup with at least 10 vehicles and four injuries. Wagner was treated at UCLA Medical Center for shoulder and hip injuries and survived thanks to conditioning and a split second decision to bounce off the car.
President Nixon, announcing a mandate for change after a landslide win on November 7, plans a broad cabinet overhaul. Only Rogers and Volpe remain from 1968 as new appointments and a lean federal bureaucracy are outlined to energize his second term. Nixon spoke at Camp David promising significant changes to avert the usual post reelection slowdown. He said announcements would come after needed congressional clearance and sub cabinet reviews, in a media session at Camp David.
Judge Older rebukes Farr for defying a gag order and seeking martyr status while probing who supplied Farr with case material. The courtroom scene features refusals to testify, assertions of press ethics, and tensions between Farr, his attorneys, and prosecutors about sources and transparency.
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