Apodaca Seeks US Probe of Journal Over Civil Rights Claim
Gov. Jerry Apodaca called on Attorney General Griffin Bell to investigate a possible conspiracy between the Albuquerque Journal and federal agencies alleging civil rights violations. He accused the paper of a long term racism policy toward Mexican-Americans after a Sunday Journal report on federal probes into Alfa Chemical and wiretaps in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa FE
Jerry Apodaca
Griffin Bell
The
Albuquerque Journal
Bell
New Mexico
Sun
Apodaca
California
U.S
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Peter W. Rodino Jr
D-N.j
Senate
House
Judiciary
Journal
Albuquerque Publishing Co
US. Attorney's Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Associated Press
Jerry Crawford
Jerrry Apodaca
Congressional
Justice Department
Alfa Chemical Company
Alfa Chemical Co
West Coast Justice Department
American Justice System
Lobbyists slow filing payments in New Mexico
Only 10 of 378 registered lobbyists have filed required expenditure reports for the 1978 session with the secretary of state by Monday. The Evans office reported 25 no expenditure notices. Reports must detail payments or gifts over 50 dollars, with exemptions for living and office costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa FE
Secretary of State
Ernestine Evans
Evans
Kenneth T. Scruggs
Phoenix, Ariz
Household Finance Co
Silver City
New Mexico State University
Gila
Karl Hill
Edgewood
Hillcrest Hospital
Hill
Brooks
Gila Wilderness Ranger Station
Ft. Bliss
Texas
Forest Office
Steve Reiser
U.S. Forest Service
Reiser
Hillcrest
Truck driver charged with murder by drunk driving in church truck crash
The driver Erwin Schmidt 51 of Alamogordo New Mexico faces a murder by drunk driving warrant after a truck carrying 22 members of a Louisiana fundamentalist sect plunged 100 feet into a ravine near Monteagle Tennessee killing four. Schmidt remains hospitalized as blood test results await.
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Monteagle
Tenn
Louisiana
Bill Killian
Erwin Schmidt
Alamogordo
N.M
Schmidt
Coffee County Hospital
Manchester
Jerry Millsaps
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Millsaps
Circuit Court
Altamont
Mary
Nashville
Terry Owen
Peter Thomas
New Orleans
Thomas
Beersheba Springs
Chattanooga
Runnels seeks hearings on oil divestiture bill
Rep. Harold Runnels Democrat of New Mexico urged the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee to hold hearings on a divestiture bill already advanced from subcommittee He opposes the measure which would bar the eight largest oil firms from new public land leases unless they divest both horizontally and vertically.
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Albuquerque
Harold Runnels
D-N.m
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Runnels
United States
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Scruggs
Bruce King
King
Jack Douglas Hall
Denver
Colo
Gulf Oil Corp
Hall
Abdallah Samuel Adele
Virgil O. McCollum
Carlsbad Industrial Relations
Carlsbad
Vincent J. Montoya
BoMar Telephone Interconnect Co
Larry Waterman
New Mexico Association of Retired Public Employees
Jason W. Kellahin
W. Thomas Kellahin
Phillips Petroleum Co
Rose Wood
New Mexico Podiatry Society
Mike Barbano
Atlanta, Georgia
FTC
Harrison Schmitt
R-N.m
Schmitt
Los Alamos
Las Vegas
Taos
Espanola
Raton
Tucumcari
Santa Rosa
Farmington
University of New Mexico
Paul Sutton
Lawrence Holmberg
New Mexico Humanities Council
Council
Department of Energy
Los Alamos and Sandia Laboratories
Pete Domenici
President Carter
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