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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1979
Page
3
The upper house backed a bill to set up special courts to try Indira Gandhi and her regime for alleged crimes during the 1975 77 emergency. It moves to the lower house for final approval before President Reddy signs into law. The session was stormy with heckling and a Gandhi supporter walkout.
Pfc. Robert Russell Garwood, 33, captured by Viet Cong in 1965 and in Vietnam over 13 years after release, arrived at Bangkok airport from Ho Chi Minh City. He refused to speak to reporters. U.S. officials said a C130 transported him to Okinawa and he will undergo standard POW return procedures and possible military inquiry into his actions.
Israel’s 120 member Knesset votes 95 to 18 to approve the Egypt peace treaty ending a 30 year war. Begin says the result is the largest majority on any political issue. Sadat and Begin plan to sign in Washington Monday.
In Sanandaj a fragile truce held as Ayatollah Teleghani and interior minister Javadi urged Kurdish leaders to list demands. Heavy fighting around the army barracks subsided. official death toll cited 100 plus, with independent counts over 200 and hundreds wounded among Kurds amid shelling and helicopter gunfire.
Rev. Bernard T. Pagano at St. Mary Refuge of Sinners Cambridge Md faces March 28 arraignment on five counts of armed robbery and one of attempted robbery. He is accused by police as the “Gentleman Bandit” behind several Delaware holdups earlier in the year.
Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt arrives at Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta under heavy security for the start of his trial on obscenity counts filed 18 months earlier. He was previously shot in Lawrenceville, Georgia, during a trial there.
The British ambassador to the Netherlands Sir Richard Sykes and his valet were fatally shot outside the ambassadorial residence in The Hague. Police pursued two unidentified gunmen who fled into morning traffic after three shots were fired. Witnesses described two men aged 35 to 40 in dark suits. motive unknown.
Pullman Inc will end production of passenger cars including sleepers after 1980 due to foreign competition and poor profits. The board decided this week, noting the division made profits in only four of the past 25 years and lost $23 million after taxes over the last four years. Two major contracts, 60 cars for Boston and 284 for Amtrak, will be completed before the shutdown.
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