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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1978
Page
3
Copenhagen reports inspector Robert Kjeldsen wins $100 for a wallet sized kit with cardboard bags and sand to collect dog feces as Denmark enforces pet cleanup laws. Across the globe AP briefs note pirates loot a Nigerian tanker, typhoon relief, and other events.
House Assassinations Committee launches a month long series of public hearings to sort conflicting statements by James Earl Ray about the April 4 1968 murder of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in Memphis Tennessee. Scotland Yard detective Alexander Eist says Ray boasted of the killing while jailed in London.
In Shilabo Ethiopia ethnic Somalis resist Ethiopian rule in a long running Ogaden war. WSLF committees mobilize 100000 area civilians for defense and political work while Cuban and Soviet forces bolster Ethiopian troops. Fighters insist the struggle remains a liberation war despite air raids and displacement.
Norman Rockwell, famed American illustrator and stockbridge resident, died at his Stockbridge, Massachusetts home just before midnight at age 84 after a long illness. He created about 300 covers for the Saturday Evening Post and illustrated for Look magazine while shaping idealized small town scenes. Rockwell’s career included depictions of Eisenhower and civil rights themes, with a public life highlighted by a 1976 Norman Rockwell Day in Stockbridge.
Officer Frank Dotzler a 34 year old 12 year veteran faces arson attempted grand larceny false insurance claim and perjury charges. Indicted Oct 31 by Brooklyn anti corruption grand jury and suspended without pay.
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