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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1975
Page
3
President Ford expected to sign a 405 million refugee aid measure to resettle over 100 000 Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees and to create a directing committee. The political scene also notes predicted veto of a strip mining control bill with environmental limits on coal mining.
AP reports a paint can bomb was defused near Jaffa Gate in crowded Jerusalem marking the 16th bombing incident in Israel and occupied territories in a week. The border incident followed by clashes and a separate grenades in Acre and Lebanon death tolls raise regional tensions as Rabin pledges 500 apartments at Sharm el Sheikh.
The Iran government newspaper reported that the United States and other industrial nations agreed to peg crude oil prices to a major commodities index. Secret talks in Tehran involving U S France the EEC Saudi Arabia and Iran set to hold an energy conference. The Shah said OPEC may raise prices in September to align with inflation and warned oil countries have lost purchasing power.
District Court Judge Tom Blackwell says he does not want to sequester the jury for the Robert Keasen murder trial. Jury selection planned for 2 p.m. with 400 jurors. Blackwell warns sequestration could be needed, a major decision in the case. Keasen, 42, is accused of killing two Mormon missionaries and disposing of their bodies in his trailer and nearby shed. He denies the charges, claiming conspiracy by the CIA and planted evidence.
In Carlsbad California Richard Gilbert operates a furnished four bedroom home as a halfway house for Vietnamese refugees waiting for sponsors and security clearances at Camp Pendleton. Gilbert and his partner provide basic lodging and work opportunities while refugees prepare for independent lives in the United States.
Jury selection began in Rio Grande City for the removal trial of suspended Duval County Judge Archer Parr. The case stems from a federal felony perjury conviction and alleged illegal payments, with Judge O P Carrillo presiding after Parr’s suspension and a power struggle between Parr and Carrillo factions. About 19 witnesses, including bankers and utility firm representatives, are to be called over roughly a weeklong trial moved from San Diego on a change of venue.
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