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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1976
Page
3
Senate factions fail to bridge liberal and conservative gaps as S1 dies for this session. Proponents McClellan and Hruska note the stalemate ends the broad attempt to codify federal criminal law. The move affects lawmakers and criminal policy across Washington.
Martha Mitchell, estranged wife of former attorney general John Mitchell, dies of a rare bone cancer in New York and will be buried Thursday in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where she grew up. Friends recall her as a lively Southern belle with a public life shadowed by Washington turmoil. Her family seeks alimony from John Mitchell, who paid $36,000 earlier this year.
Investigators seek to separate morality from potential law violations as Elizabeth Ray alleges several congressmen, besides Wayne Hays, engaged with female House aides. The probe probes if taxpayer funds were misused, with Hays facing pressure to resign and other lawmakers questioned or to testify.
Daniel Gearhart a 34 year old Vietnam veteran left his family to fight for FNLA in Angola's civil war. Captured near the Zaire border, he and Gary Acker of California face a June 8 trial before a people's revolutionary tribunal. State Department says no help possible.
Earl Pittman bears enduring scars from Vietnam as Beallsville Ohio, a 500 resident village in southern meadowlands, carries the enduring bitterness and national attention that defined the Vietnam era.
In Dallas, Senator John Tower urges the North Texas United Methodist Conference that excessive government and immorality threaten U S liberty and national security. He argues moral use of power is needed to defend freedom, while Bishop Stowe calls ministers to reach out to the alienated and minority groups amid church criticism of lukewarm outreach. The piece also covers a memorial service story about Vietnam veterans and a resident's bitterness over the war and Vietnamese refugees.
In Rhode Island South Dakota and Montana the 1976 presidential primary spotlighted Jimmy Carter as opponents including Senator Frank Church Governor Edmund Brown Jr and Representative Morris Udall intensified efforts to derail his bid Ford and Reagan also adjusted tactics ahead of big next week California Ohio and New Jersey primaries Carter entered Rhode Island with 883 of 1505 Democratic delegates needed Udall led in South Dakota with 301 1/2 delegates and Church and Brown focused on Rhode Island while Udall campaigned in South Dakota Church anticipated strong showing in Montana as he pressed his home state Idaho connection
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