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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1978
Page
3
About 180 cabin crew members began a 24 hour strike seeking summer bonuses averaging 3018 dollars and improved conditions. If unmet they threaten further action Tuesday and Wednesday.
Jerusalem AP The Israeli cabinet after a month long debate refused to relinquish the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and said sovereignty of the territories would be decided five years after a peace agreement. The plan ties limited autonomy to a future status, sparking Arab skepticism and signaling U S diplomacy. The policy passed 14 to 5, backing Prime Minister Menachem Begin while resisting a firm Israeli commitment to withdraw.
The OPEC cartel voted to hold crude at 12.70 dollars per 42 gallon barrel for six months with a price rise possible after December. A special committee led by Ali Khalifa al Sabah will set the 1979 increase at a December meeting in Abu Dhabi and consider protecting against dollar erosion.
In Turin, the Red Brigades trial proceeds with founder Renato Curcio and 14 members facing a verdict on charges of forming an armed band to subvert the state. The case, tied to the Moro kidnapping and murder, follows two prior aborted trials due to assassinations and juror threats.
President Leonid Brezhnev kissed Muhammad Ali on both cheeks and apologized for Moscow rain. Ali called the honor the biggest of his life as he met the Soviet leader in the Kremlin with his wife Veronica present. Brezhnev noted the weather and Russian custom linking rain to good signs.
In Northern Ireland gunmen abducted 59 year old Rev Hugh Murphy near the Irish border in South Armagh after ambushing a patrol that left Constable Hugh McConnell dead. Murphy was released after 12 hours as appeals from Protestant and Catholic leaders mounted. Constable William Turbitt remained missing and feared dead.
The Senate faces a record-tying sixth anti filibuster vote on labor law revisions as Byrd plans to call the measure Tuesday. The bill would stiffen penalties for violators and boost union leverage in representation elections while ethics probes on Park influence peddling unfold in both chambers.
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