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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1976
Page
5
Brezhnev is confirmed as general secretary while Agriculture Minister Dmitry Polyansky is ousted from the Politburo without explanation. The reshuffle follows recent agricultural failures and adds two new members to the Politburo roster.
Van Horn Texas officials welcome the Concorde, with Chamber of Commerce president M. J. Mitchell inviting British Aircraft Corp to consider landing in the town. Mitchell notes the runway would need upgrades but highlights the area's central North American location as ideal for future supersonic operations.
Archaeology students from the University of Tulsa uncover a semi permanent habitation dating to about 2000 BCE beneath a rock ledge 15 miles west of Skiatook. The site on Mrs. Don Moore’s ranch yields deep stone age artifacts including flint tools and an ash hearth indicating long term occupation and nightly protection.
Jurors in Patricia Hearst’s bank robbery case will see a notebook recovered from Symbionese Liberation Army hideouts. Judge Carter denied F. Lee Bailey’s bid to suppress the material, setting the stage for psychiatrists to counter defense claims Hearst feared her captors. The page includes time bomb instructions and a note “meet to talk about shooting.”
Lawyers for Texas Georgia North Carolina Florida Louisiana met to coordinate strategy as they urge the court to settle the capital punishment issue. Florida cites a murder upswing since 1964 and its impact on crime while North Carolina reports a 31 percent rise in serious crime. California plans a friend of the court brief.
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