State seeks prison bond to ease New York overcrowding
Albany reports proponents push a $3 billion bond for 4,000 new beds to reduce prison crowding and fund improvements. Critics, including Assemblyman Arthur Eve, say alternatives and current tax funding should cover needs, while some officials warn costs could rise to 15 to 20 billion over 30 years.
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JDA bond issue up for third ballot vote
Albany AP report on the Job Development Authority seeking a third ballot approval to raise its bonding limit. The agency touts loans as job creators with a 20 year record of 1,100 loans totaling about 190 million and a default rate under 2 percent while critics question effectiveness and city impact. Governor Carey backs the measure amid a prison bond contest.
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Hugh Carey
Dormer
JDA
Albany
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Franz Leichter
Manhattan
George Dempster
Leichter
New York City
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Edward Regan
Regan
Carey of election: Take on a winner
Gov. Hugh Carey fuels talk of a third term after a sellout fundraiser. He warns challengers to study his record, noting his nine tough races in Congress and the executive mansion. He says he is governing, not running, though observers expect heavy 1982 campaign spending.
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Albany
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Kahane Arrested in Canada After Toronto Talk
Jewish Defense League founder Rabbi Meir Kahane was arrested in Toronto by immigration officials after speaking at a synagogue. He told about 500 attendees that Israel should threaten nuclear force to block the Camp David peace process with Egypt. Kahane was in Canada illegally, having been expelled previously and lacking permission to return.
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Probe reveals underground radical operation in Brink's robbery
An FBI led, computer aided probe into the Brink's robbery expands into an underground movement. Arraignment for Cynthia Boston scheduled in Manhattan as six suspects are charged and raids uncover radicals’ safe houses, weapons, documents, and links to other crimes.
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New York Mobs Shrink Into New England Territory
New York five crime families extend influence into Massachusetts and Rhode Island as Raymond Patriarca weakens due to illness and investigations. Francesco Scibelli of Springfield allegedly runs Western Massachusetts and northern Connecticut under La Cosa Nostra while FBI ties him to unlawful gambling. Hartford and Springfield areas face organized crime expansion linked to the New York syndicate and Genovese remnants.
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Cticut
New York
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Photographer and student slain found in campus area
Police investigated a fatal double shooting with a photographer and a 20-year-old student found dead late Saturday. Detectives are pursuing leads to identify the suspects and establish the sequence of events. The case remains under active inquiry with no arrests announced.
New York Hikes Cut For Malpractice Rates
New York Insurance Superintendent Albert Lewis rejected a private consultant's advice and cut rate hike requests for MLMI and MMIA. MLMI faces an average 21.3 percent increase plus a 5.3 percent one-time surplus charge, while MMIA gets 27.8 percent with no extra surcharge. Both firms had sought larger increases earlier in the year.
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New York
Albert Lewis
Medical
MLMI
MMIA
Lewis
Supreme Court declines to speed census review case
The Supreme Court refused to accelerate New York's challenge to the 1980 census results. The decision leaves New York's appeal pending while contested figures on minorities and urban residents may affect federal aid and House reapportionment for 1982. Also on the docket, rulings involving deaf student interpreters and a tax exemption law for Universal Life Church members.
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Supreme Court
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House of Representatives
High Court
Denver
Essex County
N.J
New Jersey
New York City
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U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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Hendrick Hudson Central
Westchester County
Amy Rowley
Universal Life Church
Hardenburgh
Pregnant Egyptian Transferred Back to Yugoslavia After Labor
At Kennedy Airport immigration officials sent Mamoud Hanem Zaki and her husband back to Yugoslavia after they entered illegally with altered documents. Zaki, 25, went into false labor en route to a hearing, and Dr. Steven Swersky of Queens General Hospital accompanied her to Yugoslavia. The couple, on a three month Yugoslav visa, may now return to Cairo.
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UPI
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Kennedy International Airport
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Air Yugoslavia
Steven Swersky
Queens General Hospital
Swersky
Belgrade
Zemun
Zaki
Ately
Queens General
Lottery Winners In Albany Drawn Numbers
Albany AP reports state Lotto numbers drawn Saturday night were 13 24 21 34 14 with supplementary 7. The daily numbers game picked Saturday was 297.
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