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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1977
Page
3
Brazil announced the termination of its 25 year mutual defense treaty with the United States over a human rights dispute. Foreign Minister handed a note to U.S. Ambassador John Crimmins confirming the action. The agreement dated back to 1952 and signed in Rio de Janeiro.
Former First Lady Betty Ford signs an agreement to do daytime specials and other programs for NBC. Pay terms exceed 1 million dollars, with formal announcement expected Monday.
Houston reports say City controller Leonel Castillo awaiting background screening ahead of Senate confirmation for INS leadership. Dallas TV injunction seeks appeal over two investigative reports on a job scam involving Wilson International. Austin notes 2600 plus bills filed with four fifths vote rule for general measures.
A 12 member Hanafi group surrendered in Washington ending a two day terrorism spree. 134 hostages were freed without further harm and Abdul Khaalis was released on his own recognizance after arraignment. The incident included gunfire and threats but concluded with reunions as ambassadors and authorities facilitated the surrender.
Mobutu's government says Zairean troops captured Divuma and Kasaji in Shaba Province from Angolan mercenaries and moved toward Dilolo Kapanga and Kisengi. U S embassy reports eight American Methodist missionaries under house arrest in Kapanga. No confirmed fighting reported. towns newly listed as captured.
UT professors Walt and Elspeth Rostow will beam a 28 part course on American society since the 1930s via the Communications Technology Satellite to SECA satellite receiving dishes across 10 Southeastern cities. A 15 foot, $23 000 dish on the UT campus will relay the program to stations from St. Louis to Atlanta and Birmingham with NASA and Canadian partners providing the link. Rostow, once Lyndon Johnson's security adviser, is featured in the project plans.
Three Texas congressmen secured House Armed Services Committee approval of a budget measure funding six Navy ATE fighter planes built by Vought in Grand Prairie. The program supports 7,000 jobs and could extend production for six months with potential foreign orders including 110 aircraft to Pakistan pending State Department approval.
In Brownsville a nine man three woman jury reviewed testimony via a TV in the jury room as Judge Darrell Hester piloted a new 28,000 dollar audio-visual replay system funded by the governor. The device records proceedings and may aid appeals though it did not shorten deliberations.
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