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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1977
Page
19
With Prince Charles in attendance, the Space Shuttle Enterprise made its fifth and final glide, landing on a concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base. The 93-ton craft jumped briefly after touchdown and settled safely, signaling readiness for the upcoming orbital flight early in 1979.
The Enterprise stayed on the runway and rolled to a safe stop as NASA officials watched. Astronauts Fred Haise Gordon Fullerton and others conducted the final drop test with Haise commanding. After landing Haise and Fullerton spoke with Prince Charles who congratulated them before he departed for Los Angeles. The craft will go to the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama to be mated with booster rockets for vibration and stability tests.
The AFL-CIO COPE plans harsher tactics in 1978 to target former Democratic allies who voted against labor priorities. Officials say 30 to 40 lawmakers voted against key labor issues, including union organizing, minimum wage hikes, wider picketing rights, and more U.S. flag petroleum shipments.
An 18 year old La Salle youth attempted to steal a Union Pacific locomotive. The engine derailed into mud on a siding near La Salle. Police arrested Mark Hernandez on site for investigation of felony theft. The incident ended when the thief was captured by law.
Thirty Puerto Rican nationalists occupied the Statue of Liberty for nine hours on Liberty Island to demand Puerto Rico independence and freedom for imprisoned nationalists. They were captured by U S Park Police and to be arraigned in Manhattan on criminal trespass charges. Vincente Alba said the group seeks independence and end to discrimination.
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