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From the Western White House in San Clemente, Calif., President Nixon in 1969 gazed down the 6½ miles of adjacent beach held by the U.S. Marine Corps, Camp Pendleton and mused that the public should have use of it. Last week he followed through, asking the Senate and House Armed Services Committees to approve giving the beach to California. It was, he said, the first of several planned transfers of $6.8 billion worth of "excess" federal property to state and local governments for recreational and other uses. Others now under consideration are in Long Island, N.Y., San Francisco...
CHARLES I. SHADE Manager, Investigation Division Pendleton Detectives of Mississippi, Inc. Jackson, Miss...
...prison needs far more than play. It teems with bitter men, one-third of them black. Some of the toughest are young militants transferred from Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton, where 225 blacks staged a sitdown last year to protest the prolonged solitary confinement of their leaders. Instead of using tear gas or other nonlethal weapons, Pendleton guards fired shotguns pointblank into the unarmed crowd, killing two blacks and seriously wounding 45. One official gasped: "They slaughtered them like pigs...
...Indiana State, Pendleton survivors and other young blacks grate against 245 guards, most of them middle-aged whites and some close to 70. This is a U.S. pattern: only 26% of all prison
...Greyhound bus depot, including the clothing store, a cafeteria and assorted pinball games. "These big shots, the President, Agnew, they mean nothing to me," Joannidi says. "All I know is I'm losing business." Joannidi's business comes from the Marines on weekend passes from nearby Camp Pendleton. When Nixon is in town, 1,000 fewer Marines get passes-allegedly the number kept on tap in case the President is attacked, even though the residents of San Clemente do not seem likely to rise in revolt any time soon. "Now I make $2,400 a weekend less than...