Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jose, Calif...
Keeping a step ahead of authorities, the group left the farmhouse. By the time authorities found the place, only the fingerprints of Wendy Yoshimura remained, but these positively linked her with the other fugitives. Born in a World War II detention camp for Japanese Americans near Fresno, Calif, Yoshimura was a familiar figure in the Berkeley street scene and radical movements, including Venceremos. She had become a fugitive as early as 1972, when explosives for use in the abortive Berkeley bombing plot were found in her garage. Yoshimura and three men were indicted by a California grand jury...
...became chief of the FBI office in Omaha and later had similar assignments in Cleveland, San Francisco and Chicago. Once, the lanky, 6-ft. 2-in. Bates was almost killed: in 1968, when he went after a kidnaper in a building in Aptos, Calif. Says Bates: "He had his gun at the hostage's head, turned and pointed the gun at me. I fired and killed...
Died. James J. Matles, 66, controversial general secretary-treasurer of the 165,000-member United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (U.E.), who spent most of the 1950s under fire for suspected Communist sympathies; following a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Born in Soroca, Rumania, Matles arrived in the U.S. in 1929 and went to work as a machinist. When John L. Lewis set up the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1935, Matles practically singlehanded converted his AFL-affiliated colleagues in the International Association of Machinists into a new union, which he called the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers...
...Portland, Ore.* 2. Sacramento, Calif. 3. Seattle* 4. San Jose, Calif 5.Minneapolis* 6. Rochester 7. Hartford, Conn. 8. Denver 9. San Francisco* 10. San Diego 11. Grand Rapids 12. Milwaukee 13. Salt Lake City...