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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1978
Page
3
The American journalist and photographer Therese Bonney, 83, died at the American Hospital in Paris. She founded Europe’s first American illustrated press service, supplying texts and photos to newspapers and magazines. The report covers other U S and world items from the Associated Press.
U S and Canadian planes scoured a 30 mile wide area over northwest Canada for parts and potential radioactive contamination after a Soviet spy satellite burned up during re entry. Canadian authorities reported no radiation detected by late Tuesday as U S experts prepared sensors and the search continued in subzero conditions near Great Slave Lake east of Yellowknife.
Pleads guilty to fraud. Necessary coordination goes on with the United States and the Soviet Union launched Sept 18 as Cosmos 954 to track U S Navy ships. The satellite carried 100 pounds of enriched uranium 235 powering its radar. U S trackers reported slowing and possible crash as governments consulted for two weeks with Canada informed a week earlier. Moscow papers ran a 120 word notice stressing self destruction and public safety. NORAD says debris likely over Pacific Ocean after disintegration, path over Queen Charlotte Island to Great Slave Lake.
A Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee report finds U S companies in South Africa largely failed to oppose apartheid policy. It notes $1.7 billion invested in 1976, with about 100000 local workers, 70 percent black, and shows seven firms admitting pay disparities. The panel cites some refusals to do business with the government but criticizes abysmal racial policy efforts overall.
The Pushkin Museum hosts a Metropolitan Museum of Art show featuring pop art and photo realism. Soviet critics give cautious approval, praising works that reveal daily life and humanity while noting concerns over cultural emptiness and mass imagery.
Terry Fleener, a 23 year old American jailed five years for aiding Arab terrorists, petitions the Israeli Supreme Court to commute her term and deport her to the United States. Felicia Langer files the appeal citing humanitarian grounds. No date set for hearing. Assistant notes court schedule depends on workload.
In Philadelphia two trolleys collided at 30th and Market, injuring 66 as heat or brakes joke reportedly echoed. Investigators probe alleged brake failure on the runaway car amid a second crash in four days. Sixty-five or more were treated and released. driver Lorraine Leso was later admitted for observation.
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