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equalization. Riggs also praised the
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) -
Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian im-
migrant who assassinated Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, will get a
new parole hearing because his June
hearing did not follow appropriate
guidelines, the state ruled.
“We had a bizarre case conducted
in a carnival atmosphere,” Sirhan's
attorney, Luke McKissack said Tues-
day after learning of the decision. "It
went way beyond what was
necessary to violate the rules.”
An official of the state Board of
Prison Terms Tuesday announced
the nine-member board decided
hearing officers acted improperly in
denying parole last June and
scheduling the next hearing for two
years later.
McKissack said his 41-year-old
client was treated unfairly at the
June hearing when his seventh re-
quest for release from prison was re-
jected.
Secret deliberations by officers
mum were unusually brief after that hear-
ing at the California Training Facili-
7 ty at Soledad, 100 miles south of San
Francisco. Reporters — who
overheard the hearing officers
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Friday and Sunday morning, except
Christmas Day. by The Altus Times,
Inc., at 218 West Commerce, Altus,
Oklahoma 73521. Second Class
postage paid at Altus, Okla., Identifica-
tion Number USPS 015-140.
The board is charged with equaliz- assessors for their cooperation with
ing the valuation of real and personal the committee.
property in the state’s 77 counties. Turpen told the committee Tues-
Taxes on that property are a main day his office is hoping rulings on
source of funding for common civil lawsuits against Tulsa County
schools. Assessor Cheryl Clay being tried this
Contacted at his office, Auditor week will clarify laws mandating
and Inspector Clifton Scott, one of revaluation of property.
discuss the case because a
microphone was left on - said denial
of parole appeared a foregone con-
clusion.
“This is the first time and the only
time that he was not granted a fair
hearing,” McKissack said in a
telephone interview with United
Press International. “The reasons
they gave (for denying parole) were
not substantial.”
McKissack said the board’s action
is "a good Christmas present for
him. I think he feels the straw men
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It will be Columbia's first flight in
two years and NASA officials said
the long layup for modifications was
partly responsible for the 24-hour
launch postponement called Tues-
day.
The weather for Thursday morn-
ing was the one remaining area of
concern for the Kennedy Space
Center launch team. Spokesman
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terest,” he said. “I didn't think they tax collections.
put a lot of thought into it or spent a “We have no way of checking" Tax
lot of time on it.” Commission data, Scott said.
Riggs said responses by Nigh and Riggs said Equalization Board
Bernard could have been prepared members should “do a better job of
tee. thought it was a routine thing.” —---------------
Rep. David Riggs, D-Sand Springs, The other two equalization board
said Tuesday that three of the seven members who did not respond, on Dec. 14, 1984, four customers
members of the board did not return Treasurer Leo Winters and were killed and three wounded in the
the surveys and responses from two Agriculture Board President Jack $17,000 robbery of a bank in
others - Gov. George Nigh and Lt. Craig, could not be reached for com- Geronimo, Okla. Two suspects were
Gov. Spencer Bernard - were unim- ment. arrested in San Francisco three days
pressive. Scott said the Equalization Board later.
“I just didn’t think their answers members depend on the Tax Com-
indicated they had a whole lot of in- mission to provide data on property
Long trial may end
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) — tern of assaulting young girls. witnesses were incompetent to
Murder and kidnapping charges “It is my position the judge has er- testifyin the case,” Gassaway said.,
against former Wyoming truck red in this particular point. We Judgings a hard, tough job. I
driver Royal Russell Long, 50, may pointed out 22 points where they’re just happened to.turnout our way.
be tossed out of Oklahoma County exactly the same,” Macy said think it’s the rightdecision, he said.
District Court, the judge presiding “It’s the manner in which he got Owens was expected to announce
over the case said Tuesday them into his control. He would offer his decision Wednesday afternoon
District Judge Charles Owens said them food. He taped them up with Pallett and Kinsey have not been
prosecutors have shown no evidence duct tape. We brought duct tape seen since they vanished from the
that Long kidnapped two 13-year-old down here. There were stuffed fair.
girls from the State Fair of animals in his pickup at the time we Their parents testified the girls
Oklahoma in Sept. 1981 arrested him," the prosecutor telephoned them the day they disap-
Owens would not admit into stated. peared .and told them they had been
evidence testimony by a teenaged Defense attorney Michael offered jobs unloading stuffed
girl whom Long was convicted of Gassaway said after the judge’s an- animals at the fair.
sexually assaulting in Wyoming. nouncement that he is pleased with A Moore, Okla, youth last week
Oklahoma County District At- the judge’s decision to consider identified Long as the man he saw
tomey Bob Macy has contended the dismissing the case. drive away with the girls after leav-
Wyoming case was a signature "It’s the position we had been ing the boy and another youth at a
crime that indicated Long had a pat- asserting from the onset. Some of the truck stop outside Oklahoma City.
Rep. Bill Nelson, R-Fla., an RCA Costa Rica. ’
engineer and five NASA astronauts Columbia, which made the first
are scheduled to take off at 7 a.m. shuttle flight in April 1981, last flew
EST, weather permitting, for five in December 1983 before being
davs in orbit returned to its factory at Palmdale,
Calif., for hundreds of modifications.
The nation’s first shuttle is Because of the long delay between
scheduled to return to a Christmas flights, spaceport workers have
Eve landing on the Kennedy Space taken extra time making sure the
Center’s 3-mile-long runway 5 miles billion-dollar spaceship is ready to
west of the oceanside launch pad fly.
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been exposed for what they are.”
Gilbert Saucedo, executive officer
of the board, said the board decided
to grant Sirhan a new hearing as ear-
ly as possible - perhaps March -
due to McKissack’s appeal.
After his last hearing, Sirhan call-
ed parole officials “political lackeys
following the orders of higher-ups”
ir bowing to pressure from state At-
torney John Van de Kamp and others
to keep him behind bars for killing a
presidential candidate.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) The flight’s major objective is to Sirhan shot Kennedy in Los
- Lagging flight preparations have launch a television relay satellite for Angeles June 5, 1968 after the New
been completed and the countdown RCA American Communications York senator won the California
has resumed for the one-day-late Inc. There also is a variety of scien- Democratic presidential primary,
launch Thursday of the overhauled tific experiments aboard, including a He was convicted in 1969 and
shuttle Columbia on the tenth and materials science laboratory to be sentenced to die, but the penalty was
final mission this year operated by Chang-Diaz, a native of reduced in 1972 to life in prison when
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OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) - The those who did not respond, said he He said he also would like the
chairman of a Legislative committee did not mean to ignore the survey. Legislature to approve a resolution
studying Oklahoma’s property tax “I didn’t realize the committee to clear up confusion over a statute
system says he is disappointed by the was placing that much significance that requires revaluation of all pro-
response of State Equalization Board in it,” he said. “It certainly was not perty every five years.
members to a survey by the commit- any apathy on my part at all. I
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Neither Nigh nor Bernard could be Tax Commission.
reached for comment late Tuesday. “I think they realize surely there is
The state equalization board is a big problem and there has been for
composed of the governor, lieutenant a long time and they should be mak-
governor, attorney general, state ing more demands of the Tax Com-
superintendent of education, state mission,” he said.
treasurer, state auditor and inspec- He said the Tax Commission pro-
tor and the president of the state bably is understaffed to handle the
board of agriculture. property tax problem.
Riggs praised the responses pro- The committee also sent surveys to
vided by Attorney General Mike various people involved in the pro-
Turpen and State School Superinten- perty tax system, such as county
dent John Folks, both of whom ad- assessors and county boards of
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