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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1978
Page
3
A 1916 WWI letter signed by seven Australian signalers was discovered by a South Australian farmer. The note describes living well and notes the finder should be in good health as it is cast overboard. The item sits among a broader AP globe roundup of 1940s-era items.
Norwegian peacekeepers fortify the El Khiam base amid fears of renewed clashes in southern Lebanon. A Palestinian town Nabatieh suffered three dead and three wounded as fire from Marjayoun area continued. Moses: no further.
In Lubumbashi, Zaire, several hundred Belgian paratroops arrive after 500 travel from Kamina and about 4,000 white residents weigh safety. Some women and children fly out while others stay, trusting Belgian forces to prevent a repeat massacre like Kolwezi. Zairian soldiers guard streets, Belgians patrol in jeeps, and residents voice relief as foreign forces remain.
President Carter urges 14 NATO leaders to back a 117 point plan to bolster defense, including higher budgets and integrated air defense. Brzezinski and Mondale warn of growing Soviet power as Luns notes rising Warsaw Pact expenditures. Talks focus on Central Europe and Aegean tensions with Turkey and Greece over Cyprus. Carter to press for Turkey-Greece talks and possible arms sales lift amid stalled Vienna talks.
Yugoslavia said it is prepared to extradite four West German Red Army Faction terrorists linked to last year’s strikes including the kidnapping and murder of industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleier. Bonn sources say the four were seized after illegally crossing into Yugoslav territory on May 11.
In a UN General Assembly speech, Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua condemned the Geneva disarmament committee co chaired by the United States and the Soviet Union and urged a new, super power free negotiating mechanism. He warned the USSR could spark a new world war and urged broader international participation under UN auspices.
A U.S. military spokesman named two Americans dead and two injured after a small plane crash in the mountains 55 miles southwest of Tokyo. Pilot Stephen Head from Topeka Kansas and Gerald MacDonald of Dorchester Maine died. Wounded were J W Elrod of Piedmont South Carolina and Neil Gause of Hatboro Pennsylvania. The Cessna C-180 had flown from Seoul and was en route from Hamamatsu to Atsugi. Wreckage found on Sunday.
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