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The group has cited Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird's recent testimony before the senate Foreign Relations Committee as particularly convincing evidence that the U. S. will again bomb North Vietnam.
City Manager John H. Corcoran yesterday unexpectedly fired his new appointee Joseph A. Spadafora, the Executive Director of Rent Control.
The City Manager ostensibly fired Spadafora after a source, whom Corcoran refused to identify, gave him a list of several of Spadafora's minor violations of the law.
The violations included speeding, drunkenness, and serving someone underage while bartending. Spadafora made public a complete list of the violations last night "to show the glaring wrongdoing to myself and the rent control program."
"The reason for my termination, I believe, was that I fairly and impartially administered the law, and in the process of so doing refused on numerous occasions to act in a manner that I felt was contrary to the spirit of the law," Spadafora said.