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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1977
Page
6
Rhonda Belle Whitback, 23, stands on a 12th floor fire escape in downtown Portland, Ore., preparing to jump. Mark Zertamma talks her down and a friend, Joe Parker, arrives to persuade her to come inside.
Jana Jae Owens filed a motion in Los Angeles Superior Court asking that Buck Owens undergo a psychiatric examination. She says their marriage began May 2 and he left two days later, filed for divorce, then pursued reconciliation attempts while alternately leaving and returning. A hearing was set for Sept. 8.
Huey Newton, freed on bail for a teen girl’s killing, returns to Sacramento to accept a commendation from Oakland legislators for a Panther operated school in Oakland. He portrays a calmer, politician like stance while noting the Panthers tactics adapt to times and focusing on community programs and voter registration.
Cincinnati report says International Typographical Union chief A. Sandy Bevis expects a merger vote next Thursday at the ITU convention. He aims to fold with The Newspaper Guild and International Mailers Union, targeting a 750 000 member “super union” to combat automation and job losses.
United Mine Workers District 17 leaders push for a Charleston meeting to explain health benefit cuts and fund operations as the two month wildcat strike drags on. Governor Rockefeller urges immediate bargaining while Arnold Miller resists threats to end the walkout amid national economic damage.
Jorge Luis Borges receives the Argentine Publications Chamber prize for best art book of the year for Cosmogonias a poetry volume illustrated by Aldo Sessa in Buenos Aires.
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