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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1977
Page
3
Washington reports the 1973 anti hijacking treaty with Cuba expired today and Fidel Castro says Cuba will honor its terms without a contract. The break follows lingering tensions between the two nations.
Natalia Makarova cancels a long-time regret by dancing the Romeo and Juliet ballet choreographed for her. The benefit for the Maryland Ballet Co. features 16 dancers and marks a symbolic emotional performance.
Elton Baldwin writes to the U S attorney in Houston alleging life threats after the Liberian tanker George Vergottis left Brownsville in September while attempting to extract low grade oil from man made pits at the port. Also Ft Hood reports 1.5 million in attributed missing property not lost.
State representatives paused work after a parliamentary move wiped out a week of progress on a complex school finance bill. Rep. John Bryant urged delay to highlight inequities, while Gov Briscoe limited debate to the report on public school finance.
Texas Railroad Commissioner Jim Langdon warned in Midland that President Carter’s forthcoming national energy plan will fail if politics taints proposals. He called the plutonium ban a terrible mistake and urged cutting political recriminations to pursue viable long range energy projects.
Washington AP FBI Director Clarence Kelley asks Attorney General Griffin Bell to review the decision to prosecute FBI agents for illegal investigative tactics. He cites CIA officials avoiding charges and notes the Kearney indictment has hurt morale.
Aerospace engineer Kaplan from Penn State proposes using a space shuttle equipped with a giant water nozzle to coat spinning satellites with ice. As ice sublimates, the satellite slows and can be captured, allowing study and potential relaunch. NASA funded the study and the plan interests the Defense Department for foreign object retrieval.
President Mobutu Sese Seko alleges Soviet forces bombed a Protestant mission hospital and two villages in Zambia to complicate relations with the Zambian government. He cites Russian responsibility amid the Katangan rebel activity in Shaba and notes no Soviet comment.
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