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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1976
Page
3
Aviation officials said they will attempt to raise the Cuban Airlines DC8 wreckage from 1800 feet below the Caribbean floor off Barbados to determine the blast cause after 73 aboard perished. Barbadian officials noted divers would inspect the site if surface recovery fails.
A federal judge ruled Lester Maddox waited too long to force Texas to place his name on the November presidential ballot. Judge Tom Gee noted it was factually impossible to add Maddox to absentee ballots and unlikely regular ballots could be ready in several counties. Maddox planned to appeal.
General Aircraft Corp of Bedford Massachusetts seeks 25 million dollars in damages from the CIA alleging the agency illegally used its name for overseas operations that included the assassination of foreign leaders. The claim targets a General Aircraft subsidiary Helio Aircraft and general details are disputed by the CIA.
Four days before their deaths, Hans and Emma Kabel faced a brutal robbery in their Morrisania apartment. They later wrote a note saying they did not want to live in fear and hanged themselves in separate rooms. Police say the block is the busiest 24-hour sector in the precinct, with elders repeatedly targeted as crime rose during neighborhood upheaval.
U S officials express restrained reaction to Thailand's military coup though citing it as carried out by a pro American faction. They note bloodshed with at least 26 dead and 180 wounded, and say recognition will not be sought or withheld, keeping relations steady.
President Ford on a week long campaign trip faces student heckling and rapid debate fallout over his Eastern Europe remark and the Arab boycott. Carter and Mondale attack the stance as a blunder while Ford defends U S support for Eastern European independence and pushes to disclose firms tied to the Arab boycott.
Thailand’s new military regime said it would relinquish power to a civilian government within months. Bangkok remained calm as martial law lifted a curfew, schools closed, and groups over five barred from political meetings. Retired Admiral Sangad Chalawyu leads a 24 member council blamed for violent clashes that left 41 dead, with arrests and strict controls on weapons and dissent.
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