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...program of spraying malathion from helicopters over a 400-sq.-mi. area that includes Los Angeles and Orange counties. Last week Pasadena passed an ordinance that effectively outlaws spraying within city limits by prohibiting aircraft from flying at altitudes of less than 700 ft. Despite the objections, Governor George Deukmejian plans to continue the spraying. Pasadena is considering filing misdemeanor charges against the pilots involved in the anti-medfly mission...
...Santa Barbara -- as Republican a setting as any to be found in Southern California -- he assured a matronly audience, "An environmental ethic will pervade the administration of Governor Wilson from Day One." Obviously, Wilson was trying to distance himself on the environment from California's outgoing Republican Governor George Deukmejian and to lay at least some conservative claim to the issue. Insists Wilson strategist Otto Bos, with etymological aplomb: "The words conservation and conservative, after all, stem from the same root...
Within days of the Stockton massacre, several bills to prohibit the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons came before the state legislature. The proposed bans were supported by police groups, by Republican Governor George Deukmejian and even by Chief Gates. Enter the N.R.A. Mounting its typical take-no-prisoners campaign, the group mobilized California's 260,000 N.R.A. members and inundated legislators with mail and phone calls. This time it didn't work. The ban squeaked through by a single vote in the state assembly. Recall attempts launched by independent progun groups against three legislators who supported the law fizzled...
...people strolled onto the Bay Bridge in an advance celebration of its weekend reopening. The 50-ft. section of the upper deck that collapsed during the quake had been repaired well ahead of schedule in a round-the-clock $2.5 million construction feat. California Governor George Deukmejian cheerily declared, "We're back, and we're in business again...
...California, where America's tax revolt began in 1978 with Proposition 13 rolling back property levies, will have to consider a tax boost. The state has begun payments out of a $1 billion emergency fund, but Governor George Deukmejian does not intend to drain that fund, and even if he did, more would be required. The Governor is expected to call the state legislature into special session in another week or so to decide how much more relief is needed and how to pay for it. It is hard to see how any significant amount could be made available without...