Reserve units stay in Ukiah amid transfer plans
Opponents of moving Army Reserve units to San Jose win a partial victory. Lt. Col. Norman Soeth says at least two Ukiah battalion companies will remain and local reservists will continue training in Ukiah. A Bay Area unit will absorb excess drill sergeants, prompting renewed efforts to keep the unit in Ukiah. Local officials and boards oppose the transfer. recruiting continues. For more details contact Capt. Frank Wolfe at 462-4705 or 462-1946.
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San Jose
Norman Soeth
Ukiah
Mendocino
Lake Counties
Soeth
6Th Army
Bay Area
Santa Rosa
Board of Supervisors
Frank Wolfe
Whispering Bill Pifer Dead and Tape Ties to Murders
William Moran faces murder trial as a videotaped testimony by Whispering Bill Pifer links LSD spiked drinks to the killings of Thomas Shull and Charlie Baker at a Hell's Angels party in Richmond. Bodies of Shull, Baker, and an unidentified woman were found near Ukiah after a ranch raid led to immunity bargains for George Wethern and Helen Wethern.
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William
Whispering Bill
Shull
Baker
Pifer
Mendocino County
Boonville Road
Ukiah
Skull
Hell’s Angel
San Francisco
George Wethern
Helen
Wetherns
Hell’s Angels
Remap vote showdownThursday in California Assembly
In Sacramento the Assembly debates a reapportionment bill AB8 as Democrats sweeten amendments to win GOP support for a veto override by Governor Reagan. Republican leaders including John L. Collier back the changes, with a floor vote set for Thursday amid a tight deadline.
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Sacramento
UPI
Assembly Democrats
Ronald Reagan
John L.E. Collier
Los Angeles
Meade
Sudan faces choice on eight Black September killers
Khartoum officials promise an early murder trial for eight Black September guerrillas who killed three diplomats in Khartoum during a hostage siege at the Saudi embassy. U S officials urged the death penalty, while President Numeiry voiced revulsion at the diplomats’ deaths. The case tests Sudan’s Arab ties and reaction from the wider world.
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Khartoum
UPS
U.S
Sudan
Jaafar Nuneiry
Nixon
Settlement close at Wounded Knee optimism grows
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. UPI officials said a settlement in the week long occupation appeared near as federal and Interior Department negotiators moved talks to a tepee on Bigfoot Trail. AIM leaders demanded senate hearings and pressed for broader investigations while tribal politics and BIA grievances shaped the talks.
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Wounded Knee
S.D
UPI
Justice Department
U.S. Cavalry
FBI
U.S
Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIA
Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux
Interior Department
Bigfoot Trail
American Indian Movement
AIM
Rifle Point
Henry Kissinger
Senate
United States
South Dakota
Military blamed for air tragedy in France collision
Paris reports a French pilot blamed military traffic controllers for the crash of an Iberia DC9 and a Spantax Convair 990 over western France that killed 68 aboard the Iberia jet. European carriers halted flights over France amid strikes. U S carriers continued.
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Paris
API
France
British Airline Pilots Association
Iberia Airlines
Spantax
British European Airlines
British Caledonian
Lufthansa
KLM
Air France
el al
Scandinavian Airlines
Swiss Air
Frerich
U.S
Pan American
Trans World Airlines
Coronado
Spantax Company
Yves Marchais
French National Pilots Union
Robert Galley
Air Force
Claude Grigaut
Galley
Convair
Mallorca
POWs face choice to stay in or leave military service
Returning prisoners of war weighed career paths at news conferences in Philadelphia and Riverside. Lt Cmdr Robert B. Doremus said he would stay in the Navy and accept another flying assignment, even years in prison. Other officers debated remaining in the military while Maj. Thomas Collins II received ovations in Mississippi after more than 74 years in captivity.
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London
Convair
Madrid
Cognac
Pierre Tardy
Maurice Richard
United Press International
Navy
Robert B. Doremus
North Vietnam
Philadelphia
Montclair
N.J
Naval Hospital
Riverside
Calif
Darrell Pyle
Kile Berg
Alan Lurie
Air Force
Alloway
Joseph S. Abbott
Abbott
James Lamar
Little Rock
Ark
Mississippi
Maj
Thomas E. Collins II
Clinton
Collins
Donnie
Weather Snippet From March Readings in 1972 and 1973
A brief weather update lists March readings showing daily highs and lows for 1972 and 1973. It notes rainfall totals and compares last year’s figures, with entries like 5 and 58 for highs and 35 and 80 for lows, plus today’s noon and low values and rainfall 21.01 inches.
House Dems seek veto power over Nixon impoundment
The House leadership unveiled a bill to require the President to notify Congress within 10 days of any appropriated funds he refuses to spend and to let the House and Senate veto such impoundments within 60 days. Speaker Carl Albert announced the measure, drafted by Rep. George Mahon, while Republicans warned of potential tax increase implications.
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Washington
UPI
House
Congress
Nixon
Carl Albert
George Mahon
D-Tex
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
IRS versus Klee set for San Francisco court date
Oscar Klee, a Ukiah tax practitioner and former Mendocino official, must appear before U.S. District Court Judge Albert Wollenberg in San Francisco on March 9 for plea entry. He is charged with failing to file federal income tax returns for 1966, 1967, and 1968, with possible fines up to 10,000 dollars and up to one year imprisonment per year, amid ongoing disputes over tax law.
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Oscar Klee
Internal Revenue Service
California
U.S. District Court
Albert Wollenberg
San Francisco
Klee
Mendocino County
Joe Allen
Allen
U.S
Santa Rosa
IRS
Philo
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Ukiah Fire Department
George Land Jr
George Hall
Carl Purdy
Ukiah Fairgrounds
Buddy Alan
Buck Owens
Journal
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Cleo A. Noel Jr
George C. Moore
Guy Eid
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
William P. Rogers
Numeiry
Israel
Libya
Egypt
Syria
Iraq
Fort Bragg
Robert Peel
Tenn
Peel
Scott Air Force Base
Ilinois
Bulletin
OPPEL
Ames Irrigation
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