Roswell Mourns Lufthansa Pilot Killed in Hijacking
Roswell residents express sympathy for Lufthansa pilots training at the Roswell Industrial Air Center after Capt. Juergen Schumann was killed during a hijacking over the Indian Ocean region. TheDead pilot was killed Monday as West German commandos freed 86 hostages from the aircraft in Mogadishu Somalia.
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Paul Stursale
Lufthansa German Airlines
Roswell
Juergen Schumann
Lufthansa
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Emma Dolan
Mogandishu
Somalia
Klauss
West Germany faced extremist strikes across Europe after Schleyer death
Extremists bombed German targets in Italy and Genoa while protests spread from Rome to London. A Paris paper received a Liberation communique claiming Hanns Martin Schleyer was killed, saying the body was in a Mulhouse car.
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Bonn
West Germany
Italy
Europe
Paris
Hanns Martin Schleyer
Schleyer
Liberation
Mulhouse
Somalia
Lufthansa
Turin
Leghorn
Germany
Rome
Milan
Genoa
Athens
London
West German officials cite terrorism threat after Baader Meinhof deaths
West German authorities say Andreas Baader Gudrun Ensslin and Jan Carl Raspe died by their own actions and that another jailed member Irmgard Moeller attempted suicide at Stuttgarts Stannheim Prison. They expect more terrorist attacks in retaliation and invite foreign doctors to participate in autopsies amid murder suspicions.
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Andreas Baader
Gudrun Ensslin
Jan-Carl Raspe
Irmgard Moeller
Stuttgart
Stannheim
Heinz Funke
Baader
Raspe
Baden-Wuerttemberg
State hiring freeze questioned in New Mexico hearing
New Mexico officials debated temporary hires used to bypass a state government hiring freeze. Personnel Director Glen Gares told the Legislative Finance Committee the abuse appeared minimal, perhaps under 100 temps across several agencies, while seeking a 10 percent funding increase to 1.297 million for 1978-79.
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Santa FE
State Personnel Office
Glen Gares
Gares
Legislative Finance Committee
Gates
Aubrey Dunn
D-Otero
Dunn
Jerry Apodaca
RISD Deliberates On Federal Handicapped Aid Program
Roswell Independent School District officials voice a middle ground stance on a federal grant program for educating handicapped children. Superintendent H Fred Pomeroy says input will be provided to the state Board of Education before an early next month decision on applying for the aid. The program is tied to P L 94 142 and enforcement by HEW Bureau of the Handicapped.
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Roswell
Lufthansa
Daily Record
Frank W. Schwartz
Bob
Fred
Peter
Montana Ave
Schumann
Deborah Walker
Fred Pomeroy
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Bureau of the Handicapped
Pomeroy
County Commission
Roswell Independent
NMMI
Aiello
State Board of Education
New Mexico
Chaves County Amphitheater Plan Clears Legal Path
County Commissioner Arthur Aiello announces final contract with New Mexico Military Institute that gives the county control of a 3,000-seat amphitheater on NMMI land. Groundbreaking is set for Dec 6 with a $1 yearly lease for 40 years and a goal of self sustaining operation.
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Chaves County
New Mexico Military Institute
Arthur F. Aiello
Aiello
The
Daily Record
Chaves County Commission
Nmmi Board of Regents
Meteor fireball sparks alarms across plains and beyond
A giant meteor lit the eastern New Mexico Texas Panhandle skies causing dozens of calls to police and aviation authorities. Sightings were reported in Arkansas Louisiana Missouri and Oklahoma with experts split on whether it landed.
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Associated Press
New Mexico
Texas Panhandle
Eastern Plains
Arkansas
Louisiana
Missouri
Oklahoma
Air Force
William Latham
Texarkana
Strategic Air Command
Omaha
Neb
SAC
Department of Public Safety
Jim Robinson
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Texas
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Fort Davis
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