Governor visits Roswell to discuss Villa Solano prison site
Gov. Jerry Apodaca tours Roswell spreading reassurance about the Villa Solano prison proposal. He cites eight letters of opposition, meets with local groups, and tours multiple sites at the Roswell Industrial Air Center before proceeding to Hobbs for park dedication and a civic banquet.
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Villa Solano
Apodaca
Roswell-Hagerman
Transportation Manufacturing Co
Eastern New Mexico University
South Main Street
Brasher Road
Chaves County
Democratic Women’s Club
Sally Port Inn
N. Main St
Hobbs
Hobbs State Park
Hobbs Air Force Base
Hobbs Jaycee
Chamber of Commerce
Santa Fe
Apodaca Seeks Support for Villa Solano Prison Plan
Gov. Apodaca fields questions on a proposed security prison facility at the Villa Solano site south of Roswell. The Q A session opened a tour of city appearances as he campaigned for public approval of the project.
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Villa Solano
Roswell
Apodaca
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Santa’ E
State Department of Corrections
Ed Mahr
New Mexico
Apona
Mahr
Air Center
Chaves County
Hearing Set In Roswell For Displaced Homemakers Study
The New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women holds the sixth of 12 public hearings in Roswell at 1 30 p m on Friday to study needs of displaced homemakers defined as those who spent years at home then sought outside work due to divorce death or disability of a spouse.
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Roswell
New Mexico Commission On the
Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell
Commission
Roswell Chamber of Development and Commerce
Commission On the Status of Women
Albuquerque Ywca
Balloons Fill Duke City Sky at International Fiesta Opener
About 200 balloons rose at Simms Field for Albuquerque sixth annual International Balloon Fiesta opening. Highland High School girls drill team attended with world champion Paul Woessner Jr. and NBC crew. A single incident saw a balloon land near a shopping center with a lamp pole entanglement. Hang glider pilots rode single balloons aloft. After the mass ascent, balloonists joined the State Fairgrounds parade.
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Albuquerque
Simms Field
Highland High School
Paul Woessner Jr
NBC
Soviets fail docking with Salyut-6 space station
Cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalenok and Valery Ryumin could not link up with the Salyut-6 orbiting lab and prepared to return to Earth aboard Soyuz-25 after just over a day in orbit. Tass cited deviations from the planned docking regime as the cause and noted ongoing series of docking problems in the Soviet space program.
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Moscow
Tass
Vladimir Kovalenok
Valery Ryumin
Earth
Salyut-5 Space Lab
Amnesty group and two Irish women win Nobel prizes
Amnesty International receives the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for lobbying on behalf of political prisoners. Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan win the 1976 prize for leading peaceful marches to end sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
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Oslo
Norway
Amnesty International
Betty Williams
Mairead Corrigan
Ulster
Williams
Corrigan
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Northern Ireland
Irish Republic
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Paul Sturiale Photo
Enmar
Tasia Young
Muiriel Kirchmeier
YWCA
Farmington
Grants
Clovis
Arthur F. Aiello
Timothy Z. Jennnings
Unifax
Duke City
Baikonur Space Center
Sputnik
Amnesty Group
Nobel
Fengland
National
International
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