OPEC Meets with No Immediate Price Rise Planned
In Stockholm 13 OPEC members begin a two day meeting aiming to keep prices steady to avoid harming the world economy. Iran’s interior minister Jamshid Amouzegar notes no plan for a new price increase, citing Saudi cuts and Western demand as factors. Meanwhile in Purcell Oklahoma two prison escapees Earl Van Denton and Paul Ruiz face first degree murder charges for offenses tied to Arkansas and recaptured in Portland Oregon.
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Labor reform eyed as unions push for easier organizing
U S labor brief outlines Carter plan to ask Congress within 10 days to amend the National Labor Relations Act. The move aims to ease union organizing and bolster labor power amid recent administration decisions. Other items note Groucho Marx recovering from pneumonia and Sirhan Sirhan seeking access to Ambassador Hotel. Pension debt of major firms looms over retirement funds. Horshack actor Ron Palillo’s dramatic NH entrance ends with seaplane trouble and hitchhiking.
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Texas Senator Peyton McKnight named assistant presiding officer
Texas Senator Peyton McKnight of Tyler won unanimous election as Senate pro tempore during a special session. He said serving as a Texas senator is one of the greatest thrills of his life and he would like to be presiding officer as lieutenant governor.
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Briscoe urges swift action on school finance bill
Gov Dolph Briscoe urged legislators to act quickly to pass a school finance bill ahead of the new year. The Senate and a House committee opened hearings the first day of a special session. House members backed procedures for a Friday hearing on resolutions to remove Associate Justice Don Yarbrough indicted for forgery and perjury from the Texas Supreme Court.
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Soviet Skyjackers Surrender in Finland Return
Two young Soviet hijackers surrendered to Finnish authorities, ending a second hijacking of a Soviet airliner to Scandinavia in six and a half weeks. They face 3 to 15 year terms under a 1974 anti hijacking treaty and could have faced execution if a death occurred. The last three hostages escaped as the hijackers surrendered early morning.
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Newark Riots Remembered Ten Years Later
Newark marked ten years since the 1967 riots that left 26 dead and $15 million in damage. The city reshaped by a black mayor and greater black representation, yet unemployment remains high and white flight reduced population from 400,000 to 339,000. A state panel linked police insensitivity and city hall corruption to the upheaval. Kenneth Gibson later became mayor amid reform.
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Kent State arrests exceed hundred on tent city clash
Police armed with nightsticks arrested more than 100 protesters on the Kent State University campus before a county judge deadline to abandon a tent city near the site of the 1970 deaths. Among the arrested were fathers of two slain students as authorities moved protesters to buses for transport to the county jail.
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Rebel archbishop leaves Texas for Colombia amid controversy
In Dickinson Texas Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, at odds with Pope Paul VI over liturgy, plans a trip to Bogota Colombia to visit his sister. A spokesman said he will not stop in Mexico where officials reportedly oppose his visit.
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Movie drama hits close to home for Senator Cannon
Senator Howard Cannon recounts his WWII ordeal after seeing A Bridge Too Far. He and Lt Col Frank Krebs bailed out over Nazi lines during Operation Market Garden on Sept 17 1944. They evaded capture for 42 days before reaching Allied lines.
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Two prison guards disciplined for inmate escape killings
In McAlester, Oklahoma, guards C C Battles and Billy Jack Cohen were demoted and suspended for 30 days for lapses during an inmate escape that led to the suspected killings of six people. Battles dropped from captain to guard. Cohen from lieutenant to guard. The two other guards on duty face no punishment.
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