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top news stories.
6. Space travel once again
captured the public imagination
as Viking 1 made the first suc
cessful soft touchdown on the
planet Mars in late July.
The landing, which had been
postponed from an originally
planned July 4 touchdown, left
scientists thrilled. “There are
tears in my eyes,” said Noel
Hinners, associate adminis
trator of the U.S. Space Agen
cy.
The July 20 landing marked
the seventh anniversary of the
date the first man, Neil Arm
strong, walked on the moon.
The landing site chosen for
Viking 1 was the western slope
of the Plain of Chryse. In the
photographs beamed back from
the lander, it looked very much
like the deserts of southern Ari
zona — minus the cactus.
The successful Mars landing
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Mars probe
was eight years in the making
and Viking 1 had blasted off 11
months before its dramatic
touchdown 200 million miles
away.
Six weeks later, on Sept. 3,
Viking 2 landed amid a partial
radio blackout in a field of sand
dunes called Utopia.
Both Vikings, equipped with a
scooping arm and mini Jab to
carry out tests automatically,
sent back results to earth at
the speed of light.
Neither lander found evi
dence of organic compounds
that would mean the existence
of life on Mars, but the Viking
2 mother ship discovered a po
lar ice cap made of water ice,
one of the preconditions for life
to exist.
7. After two years of Water
gate-related revelations in the
nation’s capital, it was show
and-tell time again in Washing
ton. Elizabeth Ray told the
Washington Post that powerful
congressman Wayne Hays had
given her 114,000 a year of the
taxpayers’ money just to be his
mistress. Miss Ray’s accusa
tion came just weeks before the
publication of her novel, “The
Washington Fringe Benefit,” a
172-page romp through the bed-
Sex, violence made big news in 1976
The scooping arm of Viking 1
reaches for Martian soil to
analyze as scientist on earth
continue their quest to discover
whether thier is life on Mars.
rooms of Washington.
Hays at first denied the accu
sation, then admitted having
had a “personal relationship”
with Miss Ray. But he con
tended she had earned her sala
ry as a clerk. One by one he
resigned his committee chair
manships and in mid-August he
announced he would not run for
re-election.
After Miss Ray’s splash, Col
leen Gardner, another congres
sional ex-staffer, came forward
with accusations of her own.
Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska,
Reps. Wayne Hays of Ohio and
John Young of Texas and re
tired Rep. Kenneth J. Gray of
Illinois were all named in alle
gations involving women.
In an unrelated incident, Rep.
Allan T. Howe was given a 30-
day suspended sentence for try
ing to buy sex from two police
decoys acting as prostitutes in
Salt Lake City. The Utah
Democratic party leaders with
drew their support in August,
bui Howe, claiming innocence,
said he would stay in the race.
He was defeated.
8. “The violent nature of your
conduct cannot be condoned,”
said Judge William Orrick, sen
tencing kidnap victim and con
victed bank robber Patty
Hearst to seven years in jail.
Miss Hearst, who was kid
napped from her Berkeley
apartment Feb. 4, 1974, an
nounced that she had joined her
captors and with four members
of the Symbionese Liberation
Army robbed the Hibernia
Bank in San Francisco two
months later. Then she dis
appeared.
After a 19-month nationwide
search, Miss Hearst was ar
rested in San Francisco. Two
years to the day after her kid
napping, a jury was sworn in to
try her for the Hibernia Bank
robbery. The jury found her
guilty, but sentencing was de
layed for six months while she
underwent psychiatric testing
at a San Diego federal prison.
In November, Judge Orrick
granted Patty Hearst her free
dom — on 81-million bail pend
ing appeals. But her legal trou
bles are not over. Early next
year she faces trial in Los An
geles on charges of kidnapping,
assault and robbery.
9. It began as a commonplace
hijacking. Air France 139 from
Tel Aviv to Paris had just left
the ground in Athens when
three men and a woman an
nounced they had taken control
of the plane.
The airbus was met at
Uganda’s Entebbe Airport by
President Idi Amin Dada who
said he would handle negotia
tions for the hostages' release.
The hijackers asked for the ex
change of 63 comrades held in
five countries.
But when some hostages re
leased mid-week as a "gesture
of good faith” reported »hat the
passengers had been separated
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into Jews and non-Jews, and
that the Ugandan government
seemed to be aiding the Pale
stinian hijackers, Israel de
cided to act.
Commandos in four planes
made the 2,400 mile trip to
Kampala. Just before dawn on
July 4 they made a surprise
raid on Entebbe Airport, gath
ering up most of the 106 hos
tages. Three of the passengers
were killed in the crossfire.
Amin reacted angrily, bring
ing Uganda to the brink of war
with neighboring Kenya, where
Israeli planes had refueled
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Nine steps to a
new year (and you)
By Abigail Van Buren
(£) 1976 by Chicago Tribune N. Y. Newt Synd. Inc.
DEAR READERS: Three years ago I published “Just
For Today” and suggested that it be used as “New Year's
Resolutions.” Since that time I have heard from a
surprising number of readers (ages from 12 to 82) telling
me that they read the rules every day, and are trying to
live by them.
I am repeating them for those who may have missed
them. These rules are not original. I paraphrased them
from the credo for Over eaters Anonymous—an organiza
tion of loving, caring, compulsive overeaters who have
regained their self-esteem by losing weight, feeling better,
looking better and helping others to do the same.
Overeaters Anonymous is patterned after Alcoholics
Anonymous and Gamblers Anonymous. Both organizations
have had extraordinary success in rehabilitating
compulsive drinkers and gamblers when all other methods
have failed:
JUST FOR TODAY
1. Just for today I will try to live through this day only,
and not set far-reaching goals to try to overcome all my
problems at once. I know I can do something for 12 hours
that would appall me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a
lifetime.
2. Just for today I will try to be happy. Abraham
Lincoln said, “Most folks are about as happy as they make
up their minds to be.” He was right. I will not dwell on
thoughts that depress me. I will chase them out of my mind
and replace them with happy thoughts.
3. Just for today I will adjust myself to what is. I will
face reality. I will try to change those things I can change,
and accept those things I cannot change.
4. Just for today I will try to improve my mind. I will
not be a mental loafer. I will force myself to read
something that requires effort, thought and concentration.
5. Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways.
I will do a good deed for somebody—without letting them
know it. (If they find out I did it, it won’t count.) I will do at
least two things that I know I should do but have been
putting off. I will not show anyone that my feelings are
hurt; they may be hurt, but today I will not show it.
6. Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well
as I can, dress becomingly, talk softly, act courteously and
speak ill of no one. Just for today I’ll not try to improve
anybody except myself.
7. Just for today I will have a program. I may not
follow it exactly, but I will have it, thereby saving myself
from two pests: hurry and indecision.
8. Just for today I will have a quiet half hour to relax
alone. During this time I will reflect on my behavior and
will try to get better perspective on my life.
9. Just for today I will be unafraid. I will gather the
courage to do what is right and take the responsibility for
my own actions. I will expect nothing from the world, but I
will realize that as I give to the world, the world will give
to me.
It makes sense, doesn’t it? And so does the Overeaters
Anonymous program. It’s free. For information about this
wonderful organization, write to Box 34854, Los Angeles,
Calif. 90034.
P.S. Have a happy, healthy New Year. And pray for
universal peace!
LOVE, ABBY
Everyone has a problem. What’s yours? For a personal
reply, write to ABBY: Box No. 69700, L.A., Calif. 90069.
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after the raid.
One passenger, 75-year-old
Dora Bloch, who carried both
an Israeli and a British pass
port, was left behind in a Kam
pala hospital where she was
taken a few days earlier. She
was never seen again.
10. The nightmare began
when three armed men with
vans stopped a school bus from
Dairyland Unified School Dis
trict coming back from an out
ing celebrating the end of sum
mer school on July 15.
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ELIZABETH RAY
The men loaded the 26 chil
dren and bus driver Frank Ed
ward Ray, 55, into the vans and
headed north from Chowchilla,
Calif. When they reached the
California Rock and Gravel
pits outside of San Francisco 11
hours later, the children and
driver were forced into a bur
ied trailer and were left.
While California organized a
massive search for the missing
children, driver Ray was dig
ging a hole in their under
ground prison large enough for
Robert Gonzales, age 9, to slip
through. Thirty-six hours after
the busnapping, the children
and driver were back in Chow
chilla.
The search for the kidnap-.
pers lasted two weeks longer.
Police arrested Frederick
Woods, son of the president of
the company which owned the
quarry, and two friends, James
and Richard Schoenfeld.
The motive for the bizarre
kidnapping remained un
certain. A note demanding a
ransom of $5 million was later
found at the Woods estate. It
had never been sent.
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The top ten stories
1. The presidential election, the campaign and the pri
maries
2. Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai die; China changes
3. Bicentennial celebrations
4. U. S. economy: Recovery, unemployment, inflation
5. Legionnaires’ disease
6. Mars landing
7. Washington sex scandals
8. Patty Hearst trial
9. Air France hijacking and the Entebbe raid
TO. Chowchilla. Calif., school bus kidnapping
Quote / Unquote
“We’re going back to the
day when the Dutch burgers
decided that they had to have
a suitable place to relax with
a game of bowls. . . . What
the heck do you want? It’s go
ing to be a lawn with some
trees around it.”
—Spokesman for New York
City’s new “18th-century”
park which is supposed to
recreate a piece of Manhattan
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an extraordinary event as it is
the first time that the Soviet
government officially
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