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BRIEFLY : MTA TO CONSIDER MERGING POLICE.


The MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system.

(2) See M Technology Association.

1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent.
 board will vote next week on merging its police force with the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).

This article or section is written like an .
 and the Sheriff's Department, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

An ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode.  Metropolitan Transportation Authority committee voted Thursday to submit the proposal without a recommendation for a board vote Wednesday, said MTA spokeswoman Mary Ann Maskery.

Under the proposal, the nearly 400-member MTA police force would merge with the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel.
2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department.
 and Sheriff's Department, and have multiyear contracts to patrol the transit agency's bus and rail lines.

The MTA would pay $35.6 million to the two agencies for the 1996-97 transition year. The contracts would not exceed $237.1 million over five years.

If approved, law enforcement officials would start a two-month transition period in August, with implementation completed by October. The merger also would require approval by city and county officials.

The merger is expected to provide more service per MTA dollar allocated for security.

SOURCE: - City News Service

2 Marines burned in Pendleton fire

SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay.  - Two Marines were burned severely Thursday when they tried to extinguish an accidental fire at Camp Pendleton, a base spokeswoman said.

Manuel Gonzalez Jr., 20, a nuclear biological chemical defense specialist, and an unidentified Marine were in critical condition at the University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. , Medical Center, said hospital spokeswoman Sandi Pierz.

The fire broke out Thursday morning during routine training at the Las Pulgas area in the northern part of the base, said Marine spokeswoman Lt. Megan McClung Major Megan M. McClung (April 14, 1972– December 6, 2006) was the first female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat during the Iraq War. Maj McClung was serving as the head of U.S. Marine Corps public affairs for Al Anbar Province, Iraq when she was killed. .

The men were burned when they tried to put out the fire, she said. They were airlifted to the hospital just before noon, McClung said.

Camp Pendleton fire crews who were working nearby put out the blaze, McClung said.

The other victim's name is being withheld until his family is notified.

SOURCE: - City News Service
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 19, 1996
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