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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1978
Page
3
A five alarm blaze gutted nine stores in the Oak Lawn center at Highland Park Texas, with $500000 in damage and thousands of tropical fish killed. Fire officials cited a attic shared space and a firewall limiting spread. No injuries reported. Cause under investigation.
Snow, sleet and heavy rains disrupted the Great Lakes region and Tennessee Valley. Kentucky Governor Julian Carroll declared a state of emergency as more than a foot of snow closed schools and halted business activities. National Guard units were considered to aid in emergency response.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met separately with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel as negotiations opened on peace terms with Egypt and Israel. Both sides showed stubborn divides on Palestinian statehood and Jerusalem while Begin defended a 1967-war boundary stance and rejected full Israeli withdrawal. Vance planned further talks to bridge gaps amid mutual hard lines.
Spokane AP Hubert Humphrey died the day a grateful veteran John Savage, 28, received a Jan 13 letter from the late senator dated Jan 3. Savage, disabled by a fused arthritic condition, wrote to thank Humphrey for his earlier help and to share his struggle while acknowledging the senator’s encouragement and faith in recovery.
Carolyn Craven, a veteran television newswoman who had reported on the rapist known as Stinky, was attacked in her Berkeley home. She described a two hour assault in which the intruder bound, threatened, and forced her to act as if she enjoyed it, leaving her with a cut hand and five stitches. Police say she provided more details than any of the 60 known rape victims.
A CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter from Marine Corps unit HMM-164 based on Okinawa crashed during a training exercise at Camp Fuji near Mount Fuji Japan. All four crewmen were killed with no passengers aboard and the names withheld pending next of kin notification as investigators probe the cause.
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