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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1977
Page
2
Governor Carey administration shifts policy as New York Commerce Department sends a trade mission to London aboard the Concorde. Carey says the jet meets Kennedy noise rules and aims to move quickly.
Elizabeth Taylor accepted the Variety Club award in San Juan Puerto Rico before about 400 people. Reporters note her fuller figure and critique her limited interviews since arriving Sunday with her husband John Warner, former Navy secretary. The award honors distinguished women and was established in 1957.
Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky praised President Carter's human rights stance for reducing oppression as he spoke Tuesday at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs in Austin. The remarks followed Bukovsky's release from Russia a year earlier after years in prisons and mental hospitals for his beliefs.
An experimental Sumerian reed boat project sails 20 miles off Kuwait en route to the Indian Ocean as strong southerly winds and weak radio signals hinder progress. The Ti Bris crew of 14 international mariners aims to test ancient transoceanic reach, while monitoring wind and sea conditions from Manama.
A warrant for former world chess champion Bobby Fischer was extended as his lawyer seeks more time to arrange Fischer’s surrender on an assault charge. If he is not in by 2 p.m. Friday, no further extensions will be granted. Fischer appeared in court Tuesday tied to an out of court financial settlement amid an incident in which he allegedly threatened and grew angry upon learning an interview was being recorded.
AP reports Peter Carl Goldmark, inventor of the long play phonograph record and former CBS research chief, died in a car collision on the Hutchinson River Parkway near Rye in Westchester County. The 65 year old, who retired earlier that week, had just left CBS and soon after founded Goldmark Communications Corp in Stamford.
Washington AP reports John D. Ehrlichman, Watergate conspirator, will be paroled next April 27 after serving 14 years in an Arizona federal prison. The U.S. Parole Commission announced the date at Swift Trail Prison near Safford. Ehrlichman's lawyer had no comment.
Marion County jurors convict Howard Willard, 38, of murder arson and armed robbery in the death of Marjorie Jackson, the Indianapolis grocery heiress. Prosecutors say $2 million in missing loot lies buried near the desert site where $1.4 million was unearthed near Phoenix last June. Willard testified that co-defendant Manuel Robinson acted alone, while he denied breaking in and attending the fatal blaze.
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