California may raise another five billion for local bailouts
California finance director Roy Bell says a healthy economy could yield a further five billion in surplus within two years, enabling another round of local government bailouts by June 1980 after the current 900 million loan repayment. The forecast appears more optimistic than the Brown administration’s prior projections.
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Sacramento
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California
Roy Bell
Bell
Sacramento Bee
Edmund G. Brown
Killer dies at home five days after furlough in New York
Michael Covello, 34, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 1976, died of stomach cancer at 11:30 p.m. in New York after receiving a two 48 hour furloughs from Gov. Hugh L. Carey and Corrections Commissioner Benjamin Ward to die at his East 83rd Street home with his family. He had been hospitalized at Bellevue after withering to 78 pounds during cancer treatment and had served three years of a one to four year term.
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New York
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Hugh L. Carey
Covello
Ruby Ryles
Carey
East 83Rd Street
Bel
Levue Hospital
Benjamin Ward
Parole Board
Rioting Delays Spain Running Of Bulls In Pamplona
Political clashes shut down Pamplona's running of the bulls for a second day as riot police faced a 20 000 crowd. One man was killed and 135 injured in clashes between rightists and leftists during Fiesta of San Fermin.
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Spain
Pamplona
Friends
German Rodriguez
Five family members found buried in woods in Winnie Texas
Five members of the Phillips family missing from their Winnie Texas home since July 3 were found buried in a wooded Jefferson County area. Former in-law Joe Dugas, 31, of Port Acres, jailed on $500,000 bond in Chambers County, is charged in connection with the disappearance. Autopsies ordered. authorities cited a prepared gravesite and a possible kidnapping beginning July 1.
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Winnie
Texas
Jefferson County
Joe Dugas
Port Acres
Chambers County
Anahuac
Bishop Phillips
Ester
Elmer
Martha
Jason
Dugas
Phillips
Justice of the Peace
Jack Cravy
Last chance diet warned lethal by JAMA editorial
The Journal of the American Medical Association cautions that the liquid protein diet combined with fasting is potentially lethal and should not be used. Dr. Theodore B. Van Stalie notes safer, nutritionally sound alternatives and stresses ongoing weight maintenance. Reported deaths of three women aged 27 to 35 on the regimen are described, with a fourth severe case. FDA and CDC investigations cover 46 related deaths.
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Journal of
The
American Medical Association
Theodore B. van Stalie
St. Luke’s Hospital Center
New York City
JAMA
van Stalie
Food and Drug Administration
Center For Disease Control
House resumes hearings on Firestone 500 steel belt tire
The House subcommittee reopens hearings on the Firestone 500 Steel Belted Radial tire with Firestone officials set to testify before the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. Transportation officials say the tires have failed in significant numbers and urge a recall, though no recall is ordered for about 13 to 15 million tires pending a final decision after the August 7 hearing.
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House
Firestone
House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Transportation Department
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Ohio To Seek New Death Penalty
Ohio Attorney General William J Brown will ask the legislature to pass a new death penalty law modeled on Georgia’s statute. Ohio’s prior death penalty law was voided after a Supreme Court ruling found insufficient consideration of defendant character and offense circumstances. The Georgia law allows factors like age and lack of past criminal record.
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Columbus
Ohio
William J. Brown
Georgia
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
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