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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1975
Page
3
Premier Joop den Uyl vowed the Dutch government would endure the Moluccan hostage crisis at the Indonesian consulate as it did when gunmen held 24 people on a train for 12 days. The hijackers surrendered and are likely to face murder charges. officials deny yielding to demands for independence.
Ten current and former Houston police officers will be arraigned December 18 on illegal wiretapping charges. U.S. Magistrate Ronald J. Blask fixed the date for pleas before Judge John V. Singleton Jr. The defendants, free on $10,000 bonds, will plead innocent.
A railroad tank exploded near Niagara Falls triggering chlorine fumes that killed four people and left about 80 more overcome, with a number of victims taken or treated at a nearby store three miles away. Authorities investigated the incident and warned residents to stay indoors as fumes drifted.
Guenter Guillaume convicted of high treason in Düsseldorf for passing secret documents to East Germany. His wife Christel received eight years. Court noted copies of letters from President Nixon to Willy Brandt, including a July 3 1973 note from Brandt's Norwegian vacation.
In Jacksonville, Florida, police seek a man and a woman after a predawn assault at Bethesda Center, a motel converted for 30 handicapped residents. The killings include Thelma Lehman 46 and Delta Bemis 59. injuries to Joseph Bemis 62 Joy Castle 22 and Gary Reach 19. The suspect entered, assaulted Reach then beat and killed others after stealing keys.
Maj. Patrick McAdoo, of New Orleans, climbs into the last A7 fighter to depart Korat Air Base as 24 aircraft fly out. With most Americans gone by February and all personnel except advisers leaving by March 20, Thai forces will take over the site 145 miles northeast of Bangkok.
A 19-year-old Seattle woman with severe birth defects, who robbed a bank window with a brick, was spared further prison after Judge Warren Chan sentenced her to treatment at Purdy and ordered medical and psychiatric care. She underwent a 16-hour plastic surgery at the University of Virginia to rebuild her head, nose, and eyes. Now on parole, she works at Morningside Industries and trains as a microfilm technician, hoping for more surgeries to look like others. The state saves money by treating her rather than keeping her imprisoned.
The Supreme Court declined to hear the case challenging Uvalde Texas school segregation. The ruling leaves in place a New Orleans Circuit Court decision that requires Uvalde to implement a desegregation plan ordered by U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr.
Be irut based report says a flash fire in Mina area tents killed 138 Moslem pilgrims and injured 151 as more than 56 000 camped nearby. Saudi Interior Ministry notes many cars burned. incident linked to misuse of a gas bottle. A record 3 million Muslims traveled to Mecca for Id al Adha this year. Nationalities of victims not disclosed.
Snow and freezing rain in Branson Missouri stall a manhunt for James Hatfield 43 and his family of four accused of robbing a Peel Arkansas grocery store with an 8 year old boy wielding a shotgun. The group fled on foot into the Ozark hills, triggering an intense search. Authorities say Hatfield attacked his sister in law with a hammer two months earlier.
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