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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1975
Page
3
In a Texas Football Magazine poll of 23 veteran Arkansas and Texas writers, the Texas Aggies are the overwhelming favorites to win the Southwest Conference football championship in 1975. All voters rated Emory Bellard's team at least second.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger assailed developing nations as extortionists using biased votes and confrontation at a Milwaukee speech to the Institute of World Affairs. He urged constructive UN reform, warned against nuclear catastrophe, and said the U S would seek Middle East and Cyprus settlements while criticizing nonaligned nations for hindering progress. Demonstrators wearing Nazi-style outfits protested outside his hotel.
Washington AP union leaders warn of nationwide postal and railroad strikes next week if a two year contract is not reached for about 600 000 postal workers and 117 000 clerks on railroads. Federal mediator W J Usery Jr negotiates daily amid looming deadlines and possible arbitration or old-contract extension.
The Justice Department reviews the legality of FBI burglaries used to gather national security information. Officials note possible statute of limitations issues for charges. Kelley says post 1966 breaks targeted foreign counterintelligence while earlier breaks spanned WWII to 1966, with few incidents and no disclosed targets.
At Ft Chaffee Arkansas a ICEM official interviews Vietnamese refugees with in demand skills for sponsorship by South American nations. Felix Sturiago says 50 to 60 skill types qualify and seven refugees appear ready to resettle, though no sponsorships are final. Medical skills are not on the list due to training and certification hurdles.
House Republican Leader John J. Rhodes joined the effort to abolish the deadlocked House intelligence committee. He argued investigations have already occurred and urged waiting for the Senate panel's conclusions. Rhodes backs Rep. James H. Quillen's amendment to end the committee, though he doubts success.
Senator Lloyd Bentsen told about 200 Hudson County Democrats that the party must adopt large scale public works and mass transit aid to combat urban decay and economic decline. He proposed a federal finance bank to buy municipal short term notes and criticized the Ford administration for failing to pass economic measures. Separately, Col. L Fletcher Prouty suggested he may have been fed misleading information about the White House CIA contact.
In Nicosia Greek Orthodox bells rang to begin a week of protests in the Greek Cypriot area marking the 1974 overthrow of President Makarios and the Turkish invasion. A one day general strike was called with rallies planned to back Makarios and denounce Eoka-B actions. The UN Peace Force, Greek Cypriot national guard, and Turkish army were on high alert. Makarios planned to speak from the burned presidential palace ruins as he was overthrown on July 15 1974. Amnesty had freed Eoka members previously tied to the coup, now roaming amid resentful families of coup victims.
Texas Attorney General John Hill ruled that Open Records Act does not cover library records identifying borrowers and fines. He also said a college faculty member may view student performance evaluations despite promised confidentiality, citing First Amendment protections and privacy interests. opinion stemmed from Odessa request by Atty. Bill McCoy.
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