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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1970
Page
1
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew begins a 20 state swing to rally support and money for Republican candidates ahead of the November election. The trip underscores the administration’s focus on party loyalty and fundraising as President Nixon limits overt political campaigning.
Washington reports the Nixon administration is reviving the 49 year old Antidumping Act of 1921 to curb foreign product dumping. Officials insist the law seeks fair play for U.S. manufacturers while opponents view it as edging toward protectionism. The act allows penalties on foreign goods sold in the United States at unfairly low prices.
West Berlin built a 360 foot refuse mound over a decade from 80 million cubic meters of war rubble on the site of a former Nazi college. It includes ski ramps, toboggan runs, a military post, and a vineyard. Sanford Garelik suggests New York may copy the plan in Pelham Bay Park Bronx.
Rep. Melvin Price says illegal campaign contributions from two shipping firms for 16 members of Congress will be studied in private sessions. He urges tighter lobbying and contribution reporting laws after AP revealed a Justice Department list. The firms receive $43 million yearly in federal subsidies and backed leaders including Gerald Ford and Hale Boggs.
The United States will sell 16 to 18 additional F4E Phantom fighter bombers to Israel. Deliveries to begin within weeks and proceed at four or five per month through December. Egypt called the decision regrettable and warned of grave consequences. The official Middle East News Agency saw the sale as unsurprising and linked it to a broader Phantoms campaign.
Federal Judge Charles M. Merrill urged potential immunity for newsmen from grand jury subpoenas during times of stress to preserve lines of communication with militants. The remark came during Earl Caldwell's appeal after he was held in contempt for refusing to testify to a federal grand jury probing the Black Panthers.
Negotiators for the railroad industry and four AFL-CIO unions kept wage talks alive after the nationwide strike deadline was postponed five days at government request. Assistant Secretary W J Usery urged a hard bargain to avert government intervention and settle for 500 000 workers. The 12:01 a.m. deadline moved to 12:01 a.m. Monday as federal agencies favor a voluntary settlement.
About 1,500 Cambodian amphibious troops reached Kompong Thom by river and lifted the three month siege of the provincial capital. One Cambodian soldier was killed as gunboats and a long river column moved up Stung Sen River amid uncertain North Vietnamese positions and possible traps. The relief was welcomed by residents under Communist control along the Stung Sen.
The 54 nation Nonaligned Conference gave a 75 second ovation to Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh the Viet Cong spokesman at the Paris peace talks and admitted her Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam as an observer. She blamed the United States for death sorrow ruin and suffering in Vietnam. West of the Pecos: cooler tonight and Friday with low 50s to 65 and high 75 to 90.
Indianapolis mayor and Nixon adviser Richard Lugar condemned mandatory busing as a means to achieve racial balance. He urged the school board to reject plans to close a Negro high school, build a new facility, and use busing, asserting the courts should settle segregation issues. He criticized Justice Department aides for pressing an unworkable mix.
Keating Jr, Nixon appointee, sues to block release of a 10 000 word report urging repeal of federal and state obscenity laws. A 10 day restraining order delays publication until Sept 18 as minority reports are prepared. Keating claims access was blocked and the White House opposes the recommendation while other commissioners supported the repeal.
Arab guerrillas extend their deadline for freeing hostages to 10 pm in the Jordanian desert. They released 21 Arab passengers from a British plane and a British girl engaged to one passenger. The U N Security Council urged release of all passengers and crew.
White House officials say there is almost no chance the United States will use armed force to free more than 300 hostages held by Arab guerrillas. Navy and airlift assets are positioned as a precaution while diplomacy via the Red Cross continues.
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