Border smuggling and danger tour through Nogales and Agua Prieta
A correspondent travels from Tucson into Nogales Arizona and Nogales Mexico to document narcotics trade and border tensions. The piece describes smuggling routes along the fence, corrupt officials, red light districts, and the daily risks faced by residents and visitors amid U.S. border patrol scrutiny.
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Tucson
U.S. 89
Arizona-Sonora
Mexico
United States
Nogales
Ariz
el Dorado
Agua Prieta
Pancho
Fernando
Southwest
Sinaloa
Phoenix
Albuquerque
Las Vegas
San Francisco
Chicago
Scottsdale School District to Eliminate About 30 Teaching Positions
The district plans to cut roughly 20 regular classroom posts and 10 in special subjects amid declining enrollment. Sharing of a reading language arts coordinator and librarians between campuses is planned, with two aides to assist when librarians are away. No vocal music cuts due to state mandate.
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Scottsdale
Norman White
White
Loloma
Apache
Kachina
Arcadia Student Wins State Computer Program Contest
Arcadia High School junior Philip Fernandez, 16, won first in the state computer programming contest with a business simulation program adopted for class use by teacher Alice Johnson. He is the fourth Arcadia student to win the state title in six years. Fernandez plans to pursue business administration, not formal computer study, but says the project gives him a head start in applying computers to business.
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Arcadia High School
Philip Fernandez
Arcadia
Alice Johnson
Fernandez
Doris Howard
Business Education Department
Johnson
Gas cut off at Riviera Scottsdale Mobilhome Park
A Scottsdale mobile home park housing about 200—nearly 300 residents—lost natural gas service indefinitely after leaks were detected. APS and Scottsdale officials say the entire park remains without gas until repairs confirm safety. fire and city staff gave conflicting accounts on who ordered the shutoff.
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Scottsdale
Arizona Public Service Co
City of
Riviera Scottsdale Mobilhome Park
N. Hayden Rd
Joe Jaeger
APS
Tempe
Metro Fire Department
Mobile Home Park
Mobil
Metro
Paul Hurst
Hurst
Vincent Canzano
Canzano
Mondales invited to festival in Scottsdale
Vice President and Mrs. Mondale are invited to attend the May 14 Indian Bend Wash festival in Scottsdale instead of President Carter. City officials say unofficial indications show Carter may not attend regardless of date. Mayor Jenkins invited the Mondales and suggested a visit to the Scottsdale Senior Center.
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Walter Mondale
Scottsdale
Carter
William C. Jenkins
Jenkins
Mondales
Scottsdale Senior Center
Weather outlook high and low temperatures
The forecast calls for today in the low 70s with lows around 45 overnight. Friday is expected near 70 with similar overnight temperatures.
Kennedy Assassination Lead Draws Senate Inquiry
House assassinations committee pursues a lead that Oswald alone could not have fired all bullets. A Dallas nightclub worker says Jack Ruby introduced Oswald to her and others before the shooting, calling him "Lee Harvey Oswald of the CIA." In Bonn, Cyrus Vance reports Soviet rejection of a nuclear arms reduction package as Gromyko cites U S advantages.
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Washington — House
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
Dallas
Jack Ruby
Oswald
CIA
Bonn
West Germany
U.S
Cyrus R. Vance
Soviet Union
Vance
Andrei A. Gromyko
Moscow
United States
Governors Conference study on marijuana decriminalization
A National Governors Conference report says decriminalizing marijuana does not spur use. New Jersey Governor Brendan T Byrne notes readings could be read as sympathetic to decriminalization while others see the opposite. In Ottawa, a Trudeau separation report is dismissed as extremely unlikely by the prime minister’s spokesman.
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Copacabana
Agua Prieta
Pancho
United States
Washington
National Governors Conference
New Jersey
Brendan T. Byrne
Byrne
Ottawa
Canada
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Margaret
Trudeau
Toronto
CFTO
Pan Am to Airlift Bodies From Canary Island Crash
Pan Am plans special flights to the United States to repatriate passengers and crew killed in the Santa Cruz runway collision four days earlier. Executive VP W H Waltrip said the airlift would begin once the wreckage from the KLM and Pan Am planes is cleared.
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Santa Cruz DE Tenefife
Canary Islands
Pan American
United States
Santa Cruz
Pan Am
W.H. Waltrip
KLM
City workers offered 5 percent across the board raise
Scottsdale city officials propose a five percent across the board salary increase for the 1977-78 fiscal year. The proposal was presented by City Manager Franklin D. Aleshire as committees for other employee groups prepare counter offers. Talks include fringe benefits tradeoffs and a payroll of about $400,000.
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Scottsdale
City Coucil
Franklin D. Aleshire
Aleshire
Order of Police Lodge 35
FOP
Gary Barham
David Harris
Community Services Department
John Conley
Walter Nemetz
Meredith Standish
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Colonia Kennedy
Doper
Canal Street
la Conga
Club
Norma Alicia
Culiacan
Customs and Border Patrol
Bob Johnston
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Associated Press
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