Weekend camping trip stranded by blizzard in Capitan Mountains
Mr and Mrs John Roller and family faced over 24 hours trapped after 18 inches of snow closed roads near Copeland Canyon. Rescue teams from the State Highway Department Mounted Patrol and Lincoln County Sheriff's Department recovered them after they spent the night in a snowbound tent.
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Roswell
John H. Roller Sr
S. Lea Ave
Capitan Mountains
Copeland Canyon
Rollers
Susie Betz
E. Wells
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Mrs. Roller
Pers
Herbert Feck
Sheriff's Department
Feck
Sheriff's Office
Armed occupation continues at Fairchild plant in Shiprock
Indians seize Fairchild Electronics plant on Navajo Reservation as AIM holds site with armed guards. Tribal officials, AIM leaders plan talks. Fairchild California headquarters decline to meet. Hostage released. 450 workers remain employed amid layoffs and grievances over terminations and the 18 point system.
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Shiprock
Fairchild Electronics
Fairchild
American Indian Movement
Wilbur Atcitty
Peter MacDonald
California
Atcitty
Farmington
AIM
Wilson Benally
Office of Navajo Labor Relations
New Mexico
Esther Keswood
Navajo Tribe
Mercer Curtis
Benally
Roland Dart
Bessie Clark
Dollar sinks as OPEC weighs new price schemes in Vienna
In Vienna ministers from oil exporting states explored options to distance oil pricing from the dollar. Iran proposed tying oil to SDRs while Kuwait Algeria and Iran urged production cuts to prop up prices amid a global slowdown. Other moves included pricing shifts and possible replacement currency debates.
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Vienna
Austria
Amsterdam
Brussels
Paris
Frankfurt
Jamshid Amouzegar
International Monetary Fund
Amouzegar
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Kuwait
Algeria
Iraq
Bundesbank
Zurich
Ing
London
Iran
Arab Press Service
Beirut
Libya
Abu Dhabi
Sheikdom
Soviet Iran agree to $3 billion economic cooperation pact
The Soviet Union and Iran sign a broad economic cooperation protocol worth about 3 billion dollars. It covers expanding Isfahan steel to eight million tons, adding 2,000 megawatts of power, building grain silos, and expanding Arak machinery, with payments shifted from gold to a currency basket.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Iran
Hushang Ansari
Jet-Iranian Commission On Economic Cooperation
Isfahan
Arak
Ansari
Roswell Area Weather Outlook Brief
Fair and breezy weather with a warm trend across Roswell today. Expect a high near 67 degrees and a low around 31, with winds variable and clouds shifting. The two day forecast shows a high near 65 Wednesday and zero percent precipitation today and tonight, rising to two percent on Wednesday.
GSA debated Roswell site for federal training center
U S Senator Montoya urged GSA chief Sampson to reconsider using part of Roswell Industrial Air Center for a 72 million dollar Federal training center. He asked GSA to discuss city takeover of the Wherry hospital project and to study relocating the combined Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to Roswell to boost the area's economy.
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Washington
U.S
Joseph M. Montoya
D-N.m
U.S. General Services Administration
GSA
Arthur Sampson
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Sampson
Montoya
Roswell
Wherry Hospital
Federal Law Enforcement Training
Treasury Department
Beltsville
Senate Public Works Committee
Roswell Emerges As Front Runway For Quarter Horse Hall
Quarter horse leaders back Roswell as the site for a national Hall of Fame with a feasibility study moving through the New Mexico legislature. Supporters include Jerry Nicodemus Bubba Cascio and Dr Leonard Black while Albuquerque and several other states bid to host the project.
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National Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
Roswell
House Joint Memorial
Senate
Hall of Fame
Ruidoso
Jerry Nicodemus
R. E. Thompson
Dchaves
Santa Fe
Senate Rules Committee
House
Sen. Thompson
Bubba Cascio
Leonard Black
D.V.M
New Mexico Quarter Horse Association
American Quarter Horse Association
American Association of Equiline Practitioners
Albuquerque
Harriett Peckham
Quarter Racing Owners of America
Buena Suerte Ranch
America
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Marian McQuiddy
UPI Teleprot
Roon Lewald
Associated Press
Semyon A. Shachkov
State Committee of Foreign Economic Relations
Low
Ford
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