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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1974
Page
3
Six day Soyuz 16 flight deemed a success as cosmonauts Anatoly Filipchenko and Nikolai Rukavishnikov land in Central Asia. They are backup crew for the July Soyuz Apollo joint flight and report feeling fine.
Greece rejects monarchy by a 69.2 percent majority in a Sunday plebiscite with 3,236,345 votes for a republic and 1,443,804 for the monarchy. Government says Parliament will likely elect a provisional president this week amid 25 percent abstentions.
At the Kansas City miniconvention, Democrats backed a broad economic package including wage and price controls, tax reform, energy conservation, credit rationing, and national health insurance. Senators Bentsen and Bayh called controls a last resort while Fulton signaled some form of controls may be necessary.
Burmese students buried U Thant on Rangoon University grounds in defiance of his family and Ne Win's government. Police and protesters clashed as thousands of monks and students seized the body, staging a political funeral that observers say could fuel new demands.
A GOP panel of 43 Republicans met over the weekend to study reforms. They recommend that the Republican National Committee supervise all campaign spending for the presidential nomine e. The group also urged changes in delegate selection and a larger RNC, with final votes due at the March committee meeting.
The Interstate Oil Compact Commission reports removing price controls on enhanced recovery oil could affect about 25 percent of U.S. production. Decontrol would raise crude prices to about ten dollars a barrel from five twenty five, but gasoline would rise only pennies per gallon. The IOCC, composed of governors or reps from 30 producing states and six potential producers, studied effects for the Federal Energy Administration as part of ongoing energy supply assessments.
Opelousas police chief says five patrol cars are so poor they forced an officer to hitchhike to a holdup scene. During three alarms in an hour chaotic operations left cars breaking down and one officer using a personal car with a walkie talkie. Police later arrived as a gunfight wounded a store clerk and a deputy sheriff. Cars, 1973 models, run 24 hours a day and strain the 26 budget for car expenses.
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