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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1979
Page
3
In Tel Aviv a Cabinet committee backed a 22 point plan for Palestinian autonomy while Israeli commandos struck a guerrilla training base 22 miles off the Lebanese coast in a seaborne operation. The action occurred as officials pursued security amid regional tensions.
ISRAELI ARMY SAYS an Egyptian army truck sideswiped an Israeli truck near El Arish in the Sinai as tensions rise. The event follows the Tiberias bombing and a string of cross border raids in a widening conflict context. Unclear retaliation link. peace plan moves forward amid objections from Defense Minister Weizman.
University of Mississippi sophomore Lance Densing recalls his nerve wracking first day aboard an Atlantic Pacific Marine offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The rig shuddered and settled, a leg collapsed, and the platform sent 34 workers into the sea. Six remain missing and two bodies recovered as salvage and search operations continue.
U N World Food Council chief Maurice J Williams told a U N committee that developing nations will face a 77 million ton food import deficit this year and a 90 million ton gap by 1985. He urged IMF to create loan lines to cushion drops in production or spikes in prices.
Fidel Castro arrived in Cozumel for talks with President Jose Lopez Portillo focusing on Mexico oil policy and global energy plans while criticizing U S treatment of Mexican immigrants. The leaders discussed using oil to aid Mexico and potential Cuban exports to balance trade, with sightseeing planned in Mayan sites.
Roy McLemore, a Texas pilot, recounts being robbed, shot at, and held nine days in a desert and seven more in a house with screaming youths in Maicao Colombia. He escaped with his co-pilot William Spradley, faces illegal entry charges, while Spradley is hospitalized with a back wound.
The Air Force officially declared Capt. Thomas Pollock of Caldwell Idaho and Capt. Michael Humphries of Dallas Texas presumed dead after their F-5 jets vanished during a training exercise at Holloman AFB near Alamogordo New Mexico. The pilots, 36 and 29, were members of the 57th Tactical Training Wing based at Nellis AFB Nevada.
A closed stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu may reopen Monday after a 25 foot steel and timber barrier is completed to catch falling rock. Caltrans director Heinz Heckeroth noted rocks were falling at a moderate rate as the contract for the wall was awarded pending a permanent fix.
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