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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1977
Page
2
The Supreme Court asked parties to file new arguments about how the 1964 Civil Rights Act affects the Allan Bakke case. The dispute questions whether medical school admission policies favoring minorities amount to racial discrimination.
Article notes Supreme Court interest in whether the case can be decided under civil rights law rather than the broader constitutional question. Allan Bakke, a white applicant, sues UC Davis Medical School over a quota system favoring minorities, a subject closely watched by civil rights groups.
Elizabeth Taylor spoke to 500 guests at a Palisadium fundraiser for GOP gubernatorial candidate Ray Bateman in Cliffside Park New Jersey. She praised Bateman as caring and uninterested in party lines, then the hall was cleared by a bomb scare with no device found.
New York prices fell again amid rate worries. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 3.12 to 818.52 in the first hour, after a week low. NYSE losers led gainers 6-5 as trading remained quiet with 3.95 million shares changing hands.
Madline Terri and Michael Frey thank friends and neighbors for sympathy shown after the loss of their son and brother Eddie Frey.
A pilot facility proposed east of Carlsbad would be the first in the United States for defense nuclear waste storage in salt beds. Sandia Laboratories' Dr. Wendell Weart says the project is private industry driven, separate from federal programs, with studies due next year to assess suitability and conflicts with oil gas and potash resources.
State police reported ten fatalities across New Mexico highways during the weekend. Names and ages of eight identified victims are listed, plus a 16 year old and a 54 year old, with several in serious or fair condition among others. An unidentified pedestrian also died on I 40 in McKinley County.
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