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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1971
Page
3
The Soviet government said a pressure loss in the Soyuz 1 descent vehicle caused the cosmonauts deaths 30 minutes before landing. It ruled out structural failure and cited human error as a probable cause while noting the crew had spent 23 days aboard Salute before returning to earth.
AFL CIO President George Meany said on Meet the Press he would back wage and price controls if the president deems them necessary to curb inflation. He called for equal sacrifice and warned against inflationary psychology while criticizing Treasury Secretary Connally’s views on unemployment and the economy.
Two U S Air Force planes sprayed malathion over about 60000 acres in the Lower Rio Grande Valley to fight Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis. About 60 horses show clinical VEE signs amid a spread pattern northward from South America. Weather aided Sunday spray and additional operations were planned.
A Piper PA24 missing en route from Harlingen to Atlanta prompts a CAP search by Louisiana and Mississippi wings with 13 aircraft and 100 volunteers, while other Texas stories report a year round voter registration law and a Grapevine Army gang activity near Grapevine Lake.
Sen. Fred R. Harris prepares to seek the Democratic presidential nomination instead of seeking re election to the Oklahoma Senate. A campaign with Jack Hood Vaughan Herbert Allen Jr. and J D Williams is outlined as Harris nears a final decision.
Billie Sol Estes, former Texas fertilizer financier, walked out of the La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution at 12 03 a.m. and sped away in a Lincoln with his wife Patsy and a daughter. A mystery man tried to deter reporters as Estes and his entourage vanished toward El Paso, pursued by news crews and other vehicles.
Chilean president Salvador Allende is expected to sign a constitutional amendment completing nationalization of the copper industry. Congress approved the measure after a National Dignity Day celebration as Allende decried U S company profits and urged fair compensation.
The United States plans to modify six CISCE transports into gunships based in Thailand to support Laos operations. A $56 million program would raise gunship numbers to about 18, targeting North Vietnamese trucks along the Ho Chi Minh trail as dry season approaches.
A pair of U S Phantom jets from Laos into North Vietnam destroyed four antiaircraft guns and damaged three near Mu Gia pass 80 miles NW of the DMZ. The raid marked the year’s 46th protective reaction against North Vietnam. Two pilots returned safely after ditching near Saigon. a third Phantom was hit but escaped. Separate reports cite gun types and ranges, plus ongoing Ho Chi Minh trail strikes. In Dallas a 75-year-old driver died after a self-reported vision loss on a busy freeway.
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