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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1978
Page
3
More than 100 governments UN agencies and liberation movements begin a 12 day conference in Geneva to Combat Racism. The United States and Israel boycott citing the 1975 General Assembly resolution classifying Zionism as racism.
A Beirut bombing at the Palestine Liberation Front HQ leveled a nine story building. Abul Abass, head of the pro-Iraqi faction, accused Ahmed Gebril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command of the attack. At least 161 Palestinians were dead or missing, with 98 confirmed dead and 63 buried in rubble. Eleven Al Fatah guerrillas were among the dead. The incident overlapped with ongoing intra-Palestinian reconciliation talks led by Yasser Arafat.
Factions within the Roman Catholic Church lobby for the kind of pope they want as Pope Paul VI’s death spurs prayers at his tomb. Cardinals to vote August 25 in secret conclave. conservatives call for doctrinal rigidity while liberals push for openness and reform. Seventy-nine-year-old Paul VI’s successor selection draws strong global participation with theologians and scholars weighing in.
Mayor Dennis Kucinich clung to a 275 vote margin as election officials began a recount process after a bitter recall drive. Unofficial results showed 60,308 for Kucinich and 60,033 against, with 645 precincts reported. Hongisto, now New York prison chief, suggested little would change. He thanked Cleveland for giving his administration another chance and faced a possible full two year term if sustained.
Israel's PM Menachem Begin orders suspension of five new West Bank Jewish settlements and reverses a secret decision to extend construction, delaying action until after the Camp David summit. Radio Israel reports the cabinet's stance and continued pause amid regional talks.
The House Assassinations Committee opens public hearings on Dr. King’s 1968 murder with Rev. Ralph Abernathy as lead witness and James Earl Ray slated to testify. Officials compare the session to a trial and a play in Memphis mood while noting constitutional limits and uncertainty over Ray’s statements.
Police recovered two dynamite devices early today outside the United Nations building at First Avenue and 46th Street and in a Grand Central locker. A caller with a heavy foreign accent claimed responsibility to NBC at 4:20 a.m. CBS also reported a related call, but the guard could not be reached. The devices were moved to Rodman's Neck for disposal.
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