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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1970
Page
1
President Nixon will sign a sweeping anticrime bill addressing terrorist bombings and underworld racketeering. The ceremony will be witnessed by Attorney General John Mitchell and FBI Director J Edgar Hoover to emphasize the law as a major legislative effort.
Millions of Egyptians voted to approve Anwar Sadat for a six year term in a yes or no referendum. Sadat, 52, had been acting president since Nasser's death on Sept 28 and was nominated unanimously by the Arab Socialist Union and the National Assembly, the sole political party in the country.
President Nixon fears growing isolationism as a public mood shifts after 25 years of global burdens. He plans a live-and-let live approach with the Soviet Union to pursue mutual benefit while maintaining a strong anti-Communist stance.
Secretary of State William P. Rogers begins a hectic slate of diplomacy with world leaders at the United Nations. He scheduled a meeting with Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad and will talk with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko to explore reviving the U.S. Mideast peace plan.
Washington AP reports a kidnap alert was ordered in federal circles and lawmakers warned they could be targets for abduction by revolutionaries. Senator Saxbe argues the cure is making yielding to political blackmail a federal crime.
A 2000 ton section of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge under construction collapsed 134 feet to the ground. Twenty-four workers died and 19 were injured, with 25 others missing. Authorities halted work on the Yarra River spans, a major project expected to carry 30,000 vehicles daily and near completion next year.
Merle Haggard accepts the County Music Association Entertainer of the Year award at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. He calls the year the most wonderful of his life as he delivers his acceptance speech on Wednesday night.
Angela Davis is held without bail in New York for an extradition hearing on Nov. 3 to face kidnapping and murder charges. FBI agents arrested the 26 year old at a Manhattan motel after a courthouse shootout that killed four people.
The Equal Rights Amendment, stalled for 47 years, is reportedly dead as key Senate supporters abandon it. They back a new measure to prohibit discrimination against women, after the House previously passed the amendment 350 to 15 last August.
In Paris the Viet Cong reiterated Hanoi's rejection of Nixon's peace plan while U S Ambassador Bruce pressed for a more constructive reply. South Vietnam offered new political ideas possibly accepting options other than elections to decide the South's future, signaling a shift in negotiations. Lam touted elections including the NLF as the method for self determination, though Saigon gave no detail on alternative arrangements. Thieu had previously linked self determination to free elections.
U S sources report the Air Force is reducing bombing raids across South Vietnam by up to 70 percent since 1968 while maintaining pressure on North Vietnamese supply routes in Laos. The move accompanies Nixon's Vietnamization policy as South Vietnamese air power rises to about 600 aircraft and 200 more helicopters since January.
The Senate delayed final action on a three year farm bill again delaying subsidies limits for not growing crops. House approval had been given to a conference committee version supported by the White House and Agriculture Secretary Hardin. A major issue was price supports acreage controls and loan provisions for cotton wheat and feed grains.
Egypt seeks an immediate General Assembly debate on the Middle East as part of the UN commemorative session in New York. The event runs to Oct. 24 with a planned Oct. 26 start for the debate and a high level dinner with the Big Four ministers.
Washington AP reports the United States, Soviet Union and China conducted nuclear tests on the same day. China’s atmospheric blast was about 3 million tons, the Soviet underground event about 6 million tons, totaling over nine million tons of TNT. The AEC noted the Chinese test near Lop Nor. observers link it to hydrogen bomb ambitions.
Ten prominent Quebec figures urged the provincial government to free 23 convicted or accused terrorists to secure the release of a British trade commissioner and the provincial labor commissioner abducted by Quebec terrorists last week. Negotiations remain suspended as Rene Levesque leads the call supported by Louis Laberge Yves Charbonneau and Claude Ryan.
An Aeroflot airliner with 50 aboard was hijacked on an internal route and forced to land in Trabzon. Anatolia reported a hostess shot dead and two pilots wounded, though details remain unconfirmed.
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