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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1978
Page
3
About 50 high school students sprayed the U S Embassy with red paint to protest President Carter's upcoming visit to formalize new Panama Canal treaties. They chanted Carter go home and Carter up against the wall before leaving peacefully.
Israeli commandos struck a southern Lebanon fishing village base at Dahar el Bouj near Aagbiye killing five Palestinian fighters and wounding seven, with Israel reporting two lieutenants killed and eight soldiers wounded. Abu Jihad denied training seaborne attackers, saying 19 guerrillas manned a 150-strong defense as eight Israeli bodies were claimed.
Soviets accuse the United States of destroying a protective system during the embassy bugging operation in Moscow. Tass says the Foreign Ministry filed a protest, demanding immediate cessation of alleged anti-bugging and full restoration of damages, warning of releasing documentary material if Washington continues to publicize the incident.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn criticized Western materialism and cowardice during his Harvard graduation address. He urged defense of civilization through strength, urged greater focus on human obligations over individual rights, and lamented media superficiality while praising resilience amid Western decay.
The Carter administration reversed a month-old decision to permit export of airborne infrared scanners and high speed recording devices to communist China. Officials say the tech will be used for civilian purposes such as earthquake monitoring and oil exploration, not military use, after Daedalus Enterprises' initial national security rejection.
Six weeks after a scaffold collapse at a West Virginia plant killed 51 workers, OSHA says two other cooling towers remain uninspected amid resource limits. The agency proposes 105,100 in fines for 16 violations, 10 willful, and weighs criminal charges. Research-Cottrell denies the charges as work continues on towers in Port Gibson Mississippi and New Haven West Virginia.
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