County Watchdog Unit to Aid Minority Hiring
The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors urged new hiring practices in county departments to boost minority representation and blamed some labor unions. A proposed citizens watchdog committee will monitor hiring, with leaders from labor management and minority groups. The board also ordered revisions to the county code to ensure equal opportunity employment and to create jobs to support minority hiring, with three months for a progress report.
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Board of Supervisors
Gordon Nesvig
Kenneth Hahn
Hahn
Nesvig
Citizens’ Advisory Committee
Church Bows To Pressure Over Black Manifesto
South Bend reports the Episcopal Church’s general convention scrapped a planned agenda on black reparations after demonstrators disrupted the gathering. About 1,000 delegates split into work committees and debated whether to compensate blacks, with support and opposition voiced by delegates including Spiro Kypreos and Caron Gerald McAllister.
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Church
South Bend
Episcopal Church
Court of Conscience
Trov
Caron Gerald Mc.Allister
San Antonio
Black Economic Developmion Conference
New York
James Forman
Cannon McAllister
Sign Oil Ban Reagan Is Urged
Santa Cruz and Monterey counties supervisors urge voters in radio spots to appeal to Gov Ronald Reagan to sign a bill banning oil drilling off Monterey San Luis Obispo and Santa Cruz counties. The measure by Sen Don Grunsky would halt offshore drilling and awaits the governor’s signature. KSCO and KOMY airs the tapes as public service while KSCO Monte rey does not.
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Santa Cruz
Monterey
Ronald Reagan
Sen
Don Grunsky
Watsonville
San Luis Obispo
KSCO
KOMY
Australian Indicted for Fire at El Aksa Mosque
Michael Denis Rohan has been indicted in Jerusalem for setting fire to the Al Aqsa Mosque citing his extreme religious conviction. He faces charges including an abortive attempt to ignite the shrine. no trial date was announced in the Jerusalem district court. Also noted is unrelated Chicago taxi safety legislation requiring bulletproof shields by Sept. 1.
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Jerusalem
API
Israel
Michael Denis Rohan
el Aksah
Rohan
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Martin Luether King Hospital
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Behn
Asbestos Workers
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Martin Lither King Hospital
Watts
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Burton Chace
Dees
Chace
Hev
Robert P. Varley
Salisbury
Spiro T. Kypreos
Florida
Jong
Coleray
Benkamerteara
Bond's
Lakewood Blvd
Lakewood Center
Amahlim Shopping Center
Huntington Beach Shopping Center
Reagan
Springfield
Chicago
Richard Ogilvie
Genite
Pete & Fred
Atlantic Ave
Long Beach
Bixby Knolls
Lakewood
Ait Service Dept
Dia
Berlman
Trencher
Bergman
Viking Way
Headquarties Y Dio
Woodruff Ave
Zenith Chromacolor
Western Air Lines
Zenith
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