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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1977
Page
3
South Korean businessman Tongsun Park was indicted on 36 federal counts including conspiracy bribery and mail fraud linked to the Capitol Hill influence buying probe. The unsealed indictment was disclosed as U S District Court officials confirmed.
Abduction occurred Monday in Cologne in a street ambush that killed his chauffeur and three bodyguards. A threat claimed execution at 5:15 p.m. unless Baader and accomplices are freed. Two suspects detained. authorities unsure of direct ties. Wide terrorism probe, with officials citing a Red Army Faction call and a found letter in a Volkswagen van. Chancellor Schmidt urged calm and national resolve.
Hanafi Moslem leader Ha maas Abdul Khaalis received 41 to 120 years in prison for leading a 38 hour siege in March. He faced parole at age 97 after his sentence. Abdul Adam, 31, got 44 to 132 years for stabbing two men at Bnai Brith HQ.
Chinatown residents, once hostile to police, provide leads in what authorities call the worst mass murder in San Francisco history. Five killed and 11 wounded at the Golden Dragon restaurant as three masked men fired a submachine gun shotgun and pistol. Police say the victims were not involved with gangs, despite links to rival Chinatown youth gangs in a broader crime wave.
In Columbus four confirmed cases of Legionnaires disease prompt health officials to consider a weather related trigger. Dr. Ian Baird at Riverside Hospital notes late summer activity with one death and several other cases, paralleling prior Pontiac and Washington outbreaks before the Philadelphia Legion Legion convention linked deaths in 1976.
The parity ratio, a yardstick of farmers purchasing power since the 1930s, fell to 64 percent on Aug 15 from 65 in July, with a year-end comparison at 71 percent. USDA data show it the lowest since 1933, underscoring debate over its relevance to current farm programs and price supports for milk and tobacco.
Storm Babe moved north after downgrading to a tropical low, spawning tornadoes across Mississippi Alabama and Florida inland from Louisiana. Tornadoes damaged homes in Hammond and Ponchatoula while Pass Christian reported roof damage to an empty elementary school and about 500000 dollars in losses.
Pre-dawn showers swept the Edwards Plateau region in Central Texas delivering about a half inch of rain in San Antonio and Austin by 4 a.m. A separate line of showers gathered in the Gulf of Mexico threatening the coast near Galveston. Skies were mostly clear to partly cloudy elsewhere with temperatures from the 60s in West Texas to near 80 in South Texas. Forecasters expect more central state showers, some heavy, with temperatures rising toward 100 in extreme South Texas and 80s–90s elsewhere. A cold front extending from Texas to Maine caused heavy rain in parts of Missouri Ohio and Pennsylvania.
About 75 farmers and wives led a four hour 30 mile protest along Interstate 35 in Hillsboro Texas angered by low prices. They carried cotton bales and signs and criticized government relief while urging wider citizen attention to farming costs.
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