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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1976
Page
3
In a nationwide wire service round up, Chicago Bob thought he was fencing stolen goods with crooked shop workers but H and H Trucking turned out legitimate as a police set up. The sting, called Got Ya Again, resulted in many arrests for fencing at a dummy business run by police and FBI agents.
Queen Elizabeth II travels to Washington for a White House welcome as part of a six day U S visit marking Bicentennial ties. She and Prince Philip will attend a wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and a private luncheon with President Ford, with other engagements in the capital.
Governors from across the states lauded former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter as a unifying figure and potential president. Carter aligned his welfare reform ideas with theirs, while noting support for a federal role in funding a unified national welfare payment. The gathering, dominated by Democratic governors, backed a plan for a nationwide welfare overhaul with a uniform payment level and cost-of-living variations.
West Point will graduate 118 women among about 1,475 new cadets as the military academy ends its all male tradition after a 1980 law requiring gender integration. Women will share barracks, take the same courses, and train in parachute, helicopter, and jungle warfare. Some male cadets oppose changes while others support equal opportunity.
Ronald Reagan used a 30 minute television address to attack the two main obstacles to his White House bid, Ford and Carter, without naming them. He urged replacing bad ideas with good ones and urged voters to back values over labels. He outlined a four day campaign trip to North Dakota and Colorado with delegates at stake.
Christians report progress along the northern side of the 800 square mile enclave north of Beirut, as leftists and Palestinians retreat from the area amid fighting around Tel Zaatar. Greek Gemayel forces claim multiple towns including Chekka captured, while Tal Zaatar remains under siege with dwindling Palestinian defense.
U S Border Patrolmen welcomed a 7-2 Supreme Court decision allowing highway checkpoints on interstate routes to stop traffic and search for illegal entrants. The ruling upholds a checkpoint 40 miles north of San Diego once shut down by a 1975 appeals court ruling on blanket warrants.
Twenty healthy men aged 20 to 40 are sought for an 18 month Baylor College of Medicine study in Houston. Weekly testosterone injections will test feasibility and safety as a potential male contraceptive under endocrinology chief Dr. Glenn R. Cunningham.
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