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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1978
Page
3
AP dispatch reports Edmond Lyons aged 47 and John David Nolan 27 died after leaping into a tank where Chinese sailors were unconscious. Both Britons were overcome. The incident occurred in the Pacific as the Los Angeles bound tanker Anco Duke faced peril while rescuing crew.
In Rhodesia, guerrillas struck a Salvation Army secondary school in Bulawayo area killing two British women teachers and wounding Miss Pallson. The raid is part of a six year campaign that has left 19 white missionaries dead and forced the closure of about 800 schools, displacing some 200,000 children.
President Carter departs for Panama City to formalize the canal treaties ending U.S. control by 2000, with meetings planed with Omar Torrijos and regional leaders. Officials say security is stepped up as violence follows student deaths near the hotel. The Pentagon watches closely while the 9,400 man Canal Zone forces remain on alert.
In Rome Giovanni Leone chose to step down as Italy's president amid corruption allegations tied to tax evasion and a scandal linked to the Lockheed payoff. The move follows the Moro murder and amid rising urban violence as political furor and stock declines ripple through the nation.
Brian Cooper and Nigel Maidment, two British workers, recount their illicit ale production in Ha'il Saudi Arabia. They were sentenced to 70 strokes each after being convicted of bootlegging, serving five months and enduring harsh caning before their 2005 return to Britain for reunion with their wives and a beers celebration. Their operation yielded over 200 liters and about $3,000 in profit, sold to a Sri Lankan buyer who was also punished.
Amy Carter will move from Stevens Elementary to Hardy Middle School for sixth grade. Mary Finch Hoyt, press secretary to First Lady Rosalynn Carter, said the change aims to place Amy in a middle school for stability. Hardy covers grades five to eight and is about two miles from the White House, with Stevens just blocks away.
A frail neighbor inches toward discharge as his wife, exasperated by his wobbling return from the hospital, deploys a sharp, jokingly harmful gesture at supper in a domestic moment reflecting the strains of recovery.
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