Last year, Konnyu ran for tax assessor and made it into the runoff, where he was defeated by former Sunnyvale Mayor Larry Stone. Domestic Problems FBI probes, questioning of employers and landlords, surveillance by secret informants, sifting through garbage for documents, opening mail, unsolved break-ins. The spate of domestic spying includes everything from the FBI's counterintelligence forces and Oliver North's secret to the seeding of private operatives in conservative groups. The stepped-up surveillance has alarmed political activists and has sparked investigations of the FBI's role by two congressional committees. Currently the Northern California office of the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation is fighting the Omnibus Terrorism Act, introduced by President Clinton earlier this year and now inches away from passage.
Opponents are concerned that the bill's language is particularly vague.
That information and any evidence would be kept secret to protect the identity of FBI informants. The bill has passed the Senate but has yet to be voted on by the House. Thus far, the bill has had strong bipartisan support. Boxing played no small part in the death. As fate would have it, Velasquez's last fight was caught on film by photographer Larry Brazil, while on assignment for Metro.