19 Aug 1979
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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1979
Page
1
In Roswell the city councilman cites sewerage as a major problem facing the city. Other notes include fuel allocations likely rising in August, and health updates on local resident William Seelbach in Texas hospital with family nearby.
Roswell native Lee Eugene Madsen a Navy Yeoman pleads innocent to charges of stealing top secret military documents and selling them to an undercover agent for 70 dollars. Trial set for Oct. 4 before U.S. District Judge Oren Lewis.
Tass reports Valery Ryumin and Vladimir Lyakhov will soon descend from nearly six months in space. They perform last checks on the Soyuz 34 capsule and have trained in special suits to ease reentry and gravity adaptation.
Equatorial Guinea officials arrested deposed dictator Francisco Macias after a tip from a village woman. Spanish papers had earlier reported a body found in Ebebeyin near the Cameroon border, fueling the arrest story.
UPI reports the United States will present to the UN Security Council next week a resolution invoking the Palestinian people's right to determine their future. Washington denies altering resolution 242 and aims to align the new draft with 242 338 and the Camp David accord despite Israeli opposition. Strauss return from the region is awaited before the move proceeds.
The 57th Eastern New Mexico State Fair runs Sept 25–29 with a California professional rodeo at night and amateur rodeo on other evenings. Ralph G. McIntyre chairs the fair board with Jim B. Hulse vice president and W.A. Snipes as secretary. Highlights include a fiddler contest square dancing arts and crafts show and a large midway plus a tractor pull Sept 1–2.
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