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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1977
Page
3
New Delhi reports Indira Gandhi, long time prime minister, was arrested at her home by a large CBI squad on charges of acquiring 104 vehicles through misuse of official power. She is 59. Eyewitnesses confirmed the custody.
More than 200 U S and Mexican law officers meet in El Paso to discuss border crime prevention, prisoner exchange treaties, smuggling, and illegal crossings. The conference, part of a series sparked by President Carter and Mexican leaders, features top officials from both nations and focuses on illegal immigration, penalties, and drug trafficking.
Five Japanese terrorists who hijacked a Japan Air Lines DC8 over India headed for North Africa with 19 hostages and six militants. They radioed Cyprus control that the jet would go to Algeria before releasing the remaining captives. An American remained aboard with other hostages. ransom and asylum are at issue as the plane travels from Syria toward potential refuge sites in Libya or South Yemen.
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan says the U S Soviet declaration on Arab Israeli peace is a bid to push the PLO into Geneva through the front door. He calls the move an erosion of the American position while Sen Henry Jackson and George Meany criticize the plan. The document urges Israel to recognize Palestinian rights and include a role for them in Geneva. Dayan, in the U S to meet Carter, says the outcome will show if a Geneva conference is possible.
Virginia Knauer, after eight years representing consumers, opens a Washington agency to help firms address consumer demands from product complaints to environmental worries. She says business now communicates better with consumers and that inflation remains a top concern, with consumers paying for added protections.
In Huntsville Texas state district court Judge James Warren considered whether testimony about alleged brutality by a former Houston policeman can be heard by the jury. Defendants Terry Denson and Stephen Orlando, both charged with murdering Joe Campos Torres, faced the case over the Bayou drowning after Torres was beaten and pushed into Houston's Buffalo Bayou while in custody. Torres’s body was found May 8, three days after his May arrest following a bar disturbance. The trial was moved from Houston on venue grounds.
The Soviet leadership plans a week of meetings to name a first vice president for President Brezhnev and to unveil the final text of a new constitution. An amnesty for prisoners is also likely to mark the Bolshevik anniversary, with Western analysts watching for signs of Brezhnev’s successor and health concerns.
President Carter’s aides say they cannot flood media with White House ads but remain confident they can protect the Panama Canal treaty. They warn conservatives will spend heavily, with mail, TV documentaries, fact sheets, protests, and “truth squads” targeting Senate ratification. Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater oppose the treaty with support from Reagan’s Rough Riders. The anti treaty effort is expected to exceed one million dollars.
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