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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1978
Page
3
Tass reported a strong earthquake in southern Soviet central Asia with epicenter north of Gazli. It measured eight on the Mededev scale with no casualties, felt also in Bukhara Samarkand and Tashkent, while Gazli city had prior destruction in 1976.
Conservative candidate Belisario Betancur claimed a wide victory early but official returns showed a razor thin lead over Liberal Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala with 85 percent counted. Turbay Ayala refused to concede as violence and protests accompanied voting across Bogota and major cities.
Ho ward Jarvis campaigns for Proposition 13 to cap property taxes at 1 percent of market value, rollback to 1975 assessments, and 2 percent annual increases. Projections show 55 to 70 percent support in the California primary, with wide potential effects on schools and state and local payrolls. Governor Brown criticizes the initiative as potentially cutting programs for the poor.
The passage notes Mercury as the smallest planet in the solar system. It travels about 30 miles per second around the sun, completing its orbit in 88 days, and spins once every 59 days exposing its surface to the sun. It also includes a political quote about tax policy from a Los Angeles rally.
Paris hosts talks with the United States Britain Belgium and West Germany on stabilizing Zaire and other western-oriented African nations after the Shaba invasion. France plans a Pan African peace force with Moroccan troops and regional contingents while seeking Western commitment to aid and possibly transport support.
In Fruitland New Mexico a 14 year old Navajo boy Willard John and two friends Priscilla Jim and Leo Hoskie aided by Leroy Duncan rescued a woman swept along by the San Juan River. The woman, Rose Marie John 39, was treated and moved to a Shiprock hospital in stable condition.
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