New Mexico House Approves Mandatory Death Penalty Bill
The New Mexico House passed a bill 41 to 27 to set a mandatory death penalty for first degree murder. Rep John Hays and Rep George Pennington sponsored the measure, while opponents criticized it as barbaric. The bill advances to the Senate Judiciary Committee as a companion constitutional amendment awaits action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa FE
N.M
New Mexico
D—Bernalillo
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Nixon urges aid to North Vietnam to give it stake in peace
President Nixon says postwar aid to Hanoi is essential so North Vietnam will have a stake in peace. He plans to borrow the funds from foreign aid and defense budgets and will meet South Vietnam's President Thieu April 23 at the Western White House.
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Washington
Nixon
Hanoi
North Vietnam
White House
San Clemente
Calif
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
U.S
Vietnam
United States
Sudan
Khartoum
Roswell Discusses National Bicentennial Plans and Projects
Ed Pond of the New Mexico Bicentennial Commission outlined Heritage 76 Festival USA and Horizons 76 as key themes for the nationwide celebration spanning through 1976. He urged local groups to start certified projects, noting potential later assistance while funding remains unavailable.
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Glenn Prager
Roswell
Bob Bryson
Ed Pond
New Mexico
Festival
State Commission
Pond
John Burton
New Mexico State Penitentiary
Bicentennial Commission
POW wife hails release while noting unlisted prisoners
Mrs. Dorthy Hughes expresses mixed joy as her husband Lt. Col. James Lindberg Hughes is to be released after over five years in North Vietnamese POW camps. She hopes other POW families hear good news soon and shares how their community, including St. Michael's High School, supports them with POW bracelets.
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Santa FE
N.M
Dorthy Hughes
Sheppard Air Force Base
Wichita Falls
Tex
Darryn
Thompson bill tightens penalties for drug distribution
Santa Fe The Senate approved 37 to 1 a bill by Sen. KR Thompson to stiffen penalties for defendants convicted of distributing simulants depressants and LSD. A second offense would require a prison term with no sentence suspension. The bill goes to the House.
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Santa FE
Senate
KR. E. Thompson
D-Chaves
Roswell
Senate Judiciary Committee
House
Colin McMillan
Aubrey Dunn
D-Otero
D-Alamogordo
Dunn
McMillan
New Mexico
RIAC
Title 1 program hit by cutbacks
Thirteen Title I instructional aides will be dropped and 85 children removed from Educational Services Center programs in Roswell by March 23 due to withholding of federal funds. Maxwell calls the losses tragic and notes affected positions include four kindergarten aides and two classroom aides.
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Educational Services Center
Robert Maxwell
Roswell Independent School
ESC
Maxwell
Congress
Richard Nixon
Title I Parents Advisory Council
ENMU official bound over on embezzlement charge
Gene W. Harrell ENMU vice president for business affairs bound over to district court after arraignment on an embezzlement charge involving more than 2500 dollars of campus funds. He waived a preliminary hearing and was released on his own recognizance. Dr Charles Irwin named acting VP for business affairs.
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Harrell
ENMU
Charles Meister
Charles Irwin
Irwin
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David Salman
D—Mora San Miguel
Harding
Rep
William Warren
D— Bernalillo
N. Vietnam
Butte, Mont
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