15 Jan 1980
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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1980
Page
1
Roswell column notes Edward Ford of Dexter asserts speaking up yields payoffs in certain situations. The piece highlights personal courage and practical outcomes for readers.
Governor Bruce King lays out a 1980 legislative agenda emphasizing higher head of household exemptions to four thousand dollars, a 60 million dollar 30-30 income tax rebate, and cost of living raises for state workers. He calls for tax changes on energy minerals and trucks, higher weight distance taxes, and tougher penalties for organized crime.
The U N General Assembly adopted by 104 to 18 with 18 abstentions a resolution demanding total and unconditional withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. The measure, sponsored by 24 Third World nations, avoided naming the Soviet Union but clearly targets Moscow.
Radio Moscow charged the United States stage managed the U N General Assembly vote on Afghanistan. The report did not state the vote tally but accused American diplomats of backstage interference and noted pro Soviet remarks by Czechoslovakia Cuba and others while urging focus on U S moves to destabilize the Middle East and Asia.
Abolghassem Sadegh set Friday as the deadline for all American media correspondents to exit Iran, ending Press links with the United States. Other brief items note Indira Gandhi’s charges dropped, Martin Luther King Jr holiday drive, gold prices near record highs, Brzezinski on a Middle East security framework, and Queen Elizabeth's Christmas broadcast ratings.
Washington Star and Reader's Digest say Edgartown channel tidal current ran inland in July 1969, not outward as Kennedy claimed after Chappaquiddick. Family aides and engineers rebut the charges, noting topographic changes and data from 1964 tide tables still applicable to 1969.
Roswell resident Richard Herrera 22, hospitalized after a leg wound, was arrested outside St. Marys Hospital and charged with murder in the Jan. 5 Flamingo Club shooting that killed Joe Vallejos 26. Herrera was arraigned, denied bond, and ordered held for a Jan. 24 preliminary hearing before Magistrate John McLemore. He was returned to hospital for protective custody due to medical needs.
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