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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1978
Page
10
Editorial notes the Senate floor debate on Panama Canal treaties aired live to about 4.5 million listeners across 211 stations. It praises the unprecedented transparency improving senator focus and exchanges, expects continued debate through March, and urges broader public listening to witness history in the making.
Federal highway officials threaten to cut road planning funds for 16 states unless they enforce track weight limits. States from Pennsylvania to Wyoming have 45 days to justify keeping federal funding. Eleven more states warned to improve enforcement. Chester Davenport urged funds for scales and more weighing stations, or better use of existing weigh stations.
The largest city in the country faces a near one billion dollar deficit for the current year, already $229 million over its authorized debt ceiling after all feasible cuts including canceling annual municipal employee raises. A government intervention may be required to avert bankruptcy. East meets West.
AP reports annual meeting season brings sharp investor scrutiny of executive pay and perks. Regulators demand democratic accountability as questions arise about high compensation, non monetary benefits, and tax compliance. A cited accounting firm guide outlines likely stockholder inquiries. The piece also notes the 1969 formation of Karachi Island from a volcanic eruption in the Solomon Islands.
On this date in 1936 Hitler ordered troops into the Rhineland. The day recalls the Peace of Constantinople ending Turkey Venice war in 1573, and the first transatlantic radio telephone between New York and London in 1926. Other notes include WWII Ethiopian invasion in 1941, Rhine crossing in 1945, Selma march tear gas in 1965, a 1970 solar eclipse, a 198? Mohave crash, Lindsay not seeking a third term, Saudi aid to Africa, and birthday of composer Maurice Ravel.
FTC investigators criticise tour promoters for hotel overbooking unfulfilled advertised items and unchanged tour packages while warning of consumer losses. Boston unit flags heavy overbooking in Las Vegas and Hawaii and agents avoiding refunds. Intelligence digest highlights Brezhnev pacemaker unconfirmed and Brzezinski pushing consumer-set intel goals. Cuban troops in Africa and Latin American asylum cases mix with immigration and border shifts as CIA plans CCTV for internal comms.
Washington dispatch notes that the egg attack on Secretary Bergland highlights farmer resistance to the Carter administration’s farm policy. With spring planting near, many farmers show little enthusiasm for the carrot and stick program, amid a broad Belt grumble and a rising AAM protest. The 1977 program elements aim to reduce production and bolster prices for wheat and feed grains, but reception is tepid.
Washington lawmakers weigh the 1977 farm law with two carrots loan and target price supports and a grain reserve, plus a stick set aside land from production. Officials plead for a fair trial as farmers press for higher supports and parity while Congress weighs long term market impacts.
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