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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1977
Page
3
Three leaders of the Baader-Meinhof gang were found guilty in a Stuttgart court of four murders, 32 attempted murders, and forming a criminal conspiracy. Andreas Baader Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe, ages 33 36 and 32, received life sentences.
Washington reports two formal agreements governing fishing inside the U S 200 mile zone and a preliminary boundary between the 20 mile zones. Also in Washington recruits quality for Army low, with 47 percent high school graduates in January to March.
Dr. John B. Coleman, 47, Houston physician, sworn in as the first Black member of the Texas A&M University board of regents. He praised Gov. Dolph Briscoe for appointing a minority to the historically unrepresented body.
Phillips Petroleum faced a severe setback after three failed shutoff attempts to contain the runaway North Sea well. Officials said a blowout preventer was placed upside down on the wellhead before last week’s accident, complicating efforts to curb pollution.
Reporter Richard E. Meyer describes a community upheaval sparked by a simple walk in Washington. Travis Britt sees the act as a movement while opponents cite disruption and risk to local harmony as tensions rise around the Carter cause.
A Dallas man faced a $644.79 water bill before installing a new meter reduced it to $12.29. The narrative then shifts to Britt and his son meeting President Carter over backlash from Britt’s walk to Plains, highlighting racial tensions and political outreach amid campaign hopes.
Attorneys for former Attorney General John Mitchell and ex White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman seek permission to comment by May 7 on a news leak about the court final decisions on their Watergate appeals. Reports say the court voted 5-3 to deny the appeals, with Chief Justice Burger delaying an official announcement. The leak, if accurate, would mark a historic pre announcement disclosure of a final ruling. The trio were convicted in 1975 of conspiracy obstruction of justice and perjury. Mitchell and Haldeman remain free, Ehrlichman began serving time. If denied, they face prison.
Texas Attorney General John Hill said he is optimistic Americans held in Mexican jails could begin returning to the United States by September 1 after discussions with congressional leaders on Senate ratification of the Prisoner Exchange Treaty. The Mexican government has ratified the pact and the measure awaits review by the budget office. The arrangement would let U.S. prisons hold Texans and others serving remaining Mexican sentences, with parole possible under U.S. law. Mexican nationals in U.S. prisons would also be returned to Mexico to finish their sentences. Hill cited four American women in a Mexican jail as a motivating case and noted over half of the 604 American prisoners in Mexico are from Texas or California.
Dozens of letters and telegrams from FBI staff to President Carter and the Senate Judiciary Committee condemn the indictment of John J. Kearney a former NYC FBI supervisor accused of illegal wiretapping mail opening and conspiracy in the early 1970s related to surveillance of alleged Weatherman contacts. Protests cite bombings and civil unrest of the era.
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