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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1970
Page
1
About 75 entertainers on strike since Friday seek higher pay as two acts Kids of the Kingdom and American Indian dances are shut at Disneyland. Union says management stalled wage talks during two months of negotiations.
The President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography proposes repealing laws prohibiting adults from buying or possessing pornographic films books and material. It urges protection for children from smut and bans on unsolicited public displays of such material while saying government controls on access by adults should end.
AAP survey shows fifty senators committed against expanding Safeguard from two to four sites, with three undecided. If the undecided join the present stance, the bill could fail 51 to 48, jeopardizing the program overall.
U S official Daniel A. Mitrione was executed by Tupamaros in Montevideo after Uruguay rejected ransom for him and two other kidnapped foreigners. His body was found in a bloodstained car amid a police seal off, with authorities confirming identification though details remained fluid. The incident prompts the White House to condemn the act as despicable and inhumane.
Israeli planes attacked guerrilla bases in Lebanon while ground forces battled infiltrators on the Golan Heights. Arab forces fired mortars at a Northern Galilee settlement wounding a civilian as Jordanian factions clash over the Egyptian cease fire.
In Peru a Lansa airliner crashed after takeoff from Cuzco, killing 99 of 100 aboard including 49 American exchange students aged 14 to 19. The International Fellowship program, based in Buffalo, had organized the Peru trip with 400 American participants.
President Nixon signed legislation extending unemployment insurance to about 4.7 million more workers and adding extra benefits during high unemployment. Congress rejected extending coverage to farm workers but approved including other large groups not previously covered.
The Army plans a final rail shipment of lethal nerve gas rockets in armored vaults from Blue Grass and Anniston depots to a North Carolina coastal terminal. The 418 vaults will be loaded on a barge and scuttled 16,000 feet deep 282 miles east of Cane Kennedy Florida. The route passes through Georgia towns Bremen Macon and Athens before Sunny Point N C. Critics urge safety, but some officials volunteer to ride the train to reassure residents.
In his state of the judiciary message to the American Bar Association Chief Justice Warren E. Burger urged creation of a council uniting all federal branches to modernize the court system. He warned courts need more money judges and trained administrators and a streamlined system amid big federal spending.
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