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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1977
Page
2
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis smiles while listening to actor Kevin McCarthy at a dinner honoring the Treasures of Early Irish Art exhibit opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Viking Press published Shall We Tell the President a Jeffrey Archer novel in which Edward M. Kennedy is fictionally elected president and targeted for assassination in 1981. Mrs Onassis, a Viking editor, is upset by reports she would condone such a work and says she was not consulted on the purchase. Viking president Gainzburg defended the move and urged the author not to distress the widow.
The Crosby family London apartment in Mayfair was robbed while Bing Crosby, Kathryn Grant, and son Harry were away at Brighton. Stolen items include an antique Russian gold cigarette case and a gold snuff box Mrs. Crosby had bought in England for Bing.
Rings watches and other jewelry were stolen in a theft totaling roughly 26000 dollars, with investigators marking it a major loss for the owner.
Montgomery civic leader Luther Oliver starts a fund seeking $50,000 for Rosa Parks, the Montgomery woman whose refusal to move on a city bus sparked a historic boycott. Parks, now living in Detroit, says she is not facing direct financial trouble.
In Albuquerque AP report Judge William Riordan orders Rudy Ortiz and Charles Davis tried together on four counts of demanding or receiving bribes and one count of conspiracy. Separate trials denied and trial set in Santa Fe with motions on sequestration and depose Anaya pending. Ortiz, a Democratic national committeeman, and Davis, a lobbyist, faced charges linked to bogus ESC insurance policies.
Stuart Kreiner 16 a Martin Spaulding High School junior from Severn Maryland was charged with the stabbing deaths of Deborah Hogan 10 Theresa Hogan 8 and Ann Marie Brzeszkiewicz 8 in Elvaton Maryland. Authorities say the case will be prosecutes as an adult with a first degree murder charge.
New York stocks slump with the Dow dropping to 818.95 in early trading as losses outpace gains on the NYSE. Investors worry about higher interest rates and market impact as volume remains brisk at about 5.84 million shares by midmorning.
A West German airliner with 92 aboard was seized by a gunman on a Mallorca to Frankfurt flight. The hijacker demanded the release of comrades detained in West German prisons and contacted Italian police in Rome before diverting to Nicosia Cyprus. The German government sought to delay the flight pending motive details.
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