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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1977
Page
3
A federal provincial committee named Kitimat on the British Columbia coast as the best location for a major oil tanker terminal. The Termpol panel, with seven federal departments and provincial members, released the report citing no unusual navigational risk at Kitimat, 400 miles northwest of Vancouver.
U S youths aged 16 to 24 faced a tougher job market with planning and luck key to success. The Labor Department projected two and a half million 1976 teen job seekers and hinted 1977 totals may match that level.
Traffic deaths totaled eight of at least 17 violent fatalities in Texas over Mother's Day weekend from Friday evening to Sunday night. The AP counted three stabbings, three drownings, two shoot deaths and one fatal fire, with multiple other incidents noted. In El Campo ammonia leak from a faulty hose caused tank truck unloading to release gas, leaving two men in hospital in good condition. Dallas Morning News reports a Travis County grand jury investigates alleged irregularities in State Insurance Department tied to Great Commonwealth Life Insurance Co. of Dallas under state supervision since 1975.
President Carter travels to Geneva to meet Syrian President Hafez Assad after talks with Britain France and West Germany on Berlin and detente. Assad hopes for a turning point in Arab Israeli diplomacy as Vance notes Assad's views will shape final U.S. settlement strategy.
In Indianapolis three men are questioned over the shooting death of Marjorie V. Jackson and a reported $817000 burglary. A fire at her ranch style home revealed over $5 million in cash hidden in the estate. Detectives call the blaze arson and suspect robbery as the motive while authorities weigh charges.
Panamanian chief negotiator Romulo Escobar Betancourt and team arrived in Washington for a new round of Panama Canal treaty talks with U S negotiators Sol Linowitz and Ellsworth Bunker after sharp threats from Gen Omar Torrijos.
In Concord New Hampshire the Battle of Seabrook continues as anti nuclear protesters sue Governor Thomson and state officials for alleged civil rights violations. Trials for protesters resume in Derry and Hampton districts while federal judges consider the civil suit and damages.
At the Air Force Academy students play world leaders choosing energy and resource use and feed decisions into a computer that projects impacts over centuries. Five students aim to maintain living standards, but the computer warns fossil fuels exhaust in 145 years and atomic waste piles up as shortages trigger alarms.
Gerald R. Ford received the 5th Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award in Kansas City during the 25th Truman birthday luncheon. The Eddie Jacobson Memorial Foundation praised his efforts to restore national unity amid political upheaval. past honorees include Warren, Eagleton, Louis Truman, and J. Edgar Hoover.
Former Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski said as early as December 1973 he warned President Nixon’s chief of staff Alexander Haig that Nixon was criminally culpable in the Watergate coverup. He told KPRC TV Nixon should admit guilt and sought legal review of evidence.
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