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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1978
Page
3
The remote Shetland Islands will vote by postal ballot starting February 21 on whether to remain part of Scotland as Scotland gains limited home rule. The move influences Britain's sweeping constitutional change expected to pass by autumn.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin, softened after weekend criticism, said Israel welcomes U S mediation in the Middle East despite very serious American criticism of Israeli policy. He spoke at a news conference in Jerusalem, contrasting with his Sunday reaction to Cyrus Vance's appraisal. Vance urged disbanding settlements and Israeli withdrawal from occupied lands.
Israel denounces U S mediation as Begin’s cabinet votes to accuse Washington of taking sides in the Middle East talks. Atherton to shuttle between Cairo and Jerusalem to revive stalled negotiations as Sadat campaigns in Europe for a peace terms pledge. Pope Paul VI plans talks with Sadat amid hopes for a revived peace bid.
Ethiopian army escorted foreign reporters to Harar and described driving Somali forces back about 20 miles north 30 miles south and 27 miles east toward Jijiga as fires burned around Fedis mosque and nomadic villages. Somalia meanwhile mobilized reserves to enter the Ogaden war.
A Pacific Western Boeing 737 crashed in a snowstorm while attempting to land at Cranbrook. Forty people died and seven survived including six passengers and a flight attendant seated in the tail. Investigators study voice recorder tapes as they inspect wreckage and the snowplow's presence on the runway remains unclear.
The Civil Rights Commission commends the Carter administration for improved civil rights enforcement in 1977, citing EEOC reorganization and Justice and HEW actions, while warning that black unemployment remains the worst since World War II. It notes the 125 page report The State of Civil Rights: 1977 and urges continued focus on high poverty and unemployment in minority communities.
In Columbus Georgia an 78 year old widow Mildred Dismukes Brown was found strangled after resisting an attack in Wynnton. Police say she is the sixth widow aged over 60 killed in a fashionable 15 block area since mid September. A prior neighbor survived a similar attack the day before.
Richard Lowe and his two teenage sons stay in a garage command post with neighbors as a new storm threatens a spillover from a dam above their hillside home in the Los Angeles area. Evacuations were ordered for 75 families as mud and rocks buried rooms Friday. The area’s elevation tops 2,200 to 2,600 feet and has a history of fires and earthquakes.
Gerald McCathern Hereford farmer and spokesman for the American Agriculture Movement joins Jim Kramer of Kansas and Bud Bittner of Colorado for a 2 p.m. White House session with President Carter. The president will meet with 23 farm groups on Tuesday as striking farmers urge action after lobbying Congress since January.
In protest against rising rates residents of Westwood California plan a one week power outage. About 1800 townspeople expect a shift back to 19th century living, trading TV for conversation and games as electric bills have surged from 30 to 75 dollars monthly. Local stores report sharp bill increases and some see the move as a public embarrassment to the utility.
The Conference Board cites Germany with 6.9 million and Italy with 5.3 million immigrants to the United States, making them the top source countries.
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