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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1977
Page
3
The 1977 Nobel Economics Prize was awarded to James Meade of England and Bertil Ohlin of Sweden for pathbreaking contributions to international trade and capital movements. Meade, 70, a Cambridge professor, helped form the basis for customs unions and wrote influential works on economic policy.
A West German Boeing 737 hijacked with 92 aboard landed in Dubai after stops in Rome and Cyprus. The gunmen set a Sunday 8 a.m. local deadline to free 11 associates in West German and Turkish jails while a Geneva communique named a 7 a.m. Sunday deadline. Hostages include five crew and 87 passengers, among them 1] German beauty queens. A Dubai official said passengers are in good shape as negotiators work via radio.
In Bradford a young bakery clerk, Carol Wilkinson, 20, was brutally attacked and left for dead after a sexual assault. Doctors turned off life support after she was deemed clinically dead, prompting debate over whether the attacker could be charged with murder if the death was caused by physicians. Her fiancé and parents consented to the decision, and investigators say the injuries were fatal and the assailant intended to kill.
President Carter and Panamas leader Omar Torrijos met in the Oval Office to discuss the Panama Canal treaty leaving without a joint statement. They aimed to clarify the disputed language on joint defense of canal neutrality after 2000 as Senate hearings continued.
Chairman Edgar Speer said President Carter’s vow to curb foreign steel dumping offers a bright outlook for the industry after a White House meeting with the President, advisers, lawmakers, unions and environmental and consumer groups. The session followed widespread plant closures and about 19 000 layoffs.
DALLAS AP Many carneys say kizarny, a pig Latin carnival dialect, is fading as the industry grows into big business. Dwayne Steck, veteran operator at this year’s Texas State Fair, notes the loss benefits clarity though some banter among workers still uses the old code.
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