WT State University weighed on football fate by student plea
WT students urge ending divisiveness by dropping football to stop red ink in the athletic program. A senior warns supporters not to back WT if football leaves, while another student calls for an independent athletic director and business manager to cut costs. The Board of Regents and a special committee continue hearings to decide football’s future.
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West Texas State University
Wtsu Board of Regents
Eric Bertram
University
Steve Williams
Gene Mayfield
Hereford Panhandle debate on athletic funding and tickets
WT alumni and Hereford officials discuss funding for university athletics in the Panhandle area. Business leaders pledge to underwrite 10 000 season tickets to reduce a projected deficit of about 135 885 dollars, with other towns asked to guarantee 9 000 and 7 500 from Amarillo Chamber. Regents consider combining posts and creating a summer athletic camp to boost revenue.
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Jim Campbell
Williams
Jerry Don George
Hereford High School
WT Alumni Association
Panahadle
Panhandle
Canyon
A.W. Lair
Roland Black
Canyon Chamber of Commerce
Chambers of Commerce
Amarillo Chamber
Hereford
Spearman
Black
Hermas Miller
Regent
T.L. Roach
Amarillo
Jim Dawson
Stan Davis
Buffalo Club
Regents
Jack Shelton
Letterman
Oil price hike tied to $11 billion U.S. tax impact
A State Department official told a Senate hearing that the OPEC price increases will cost U.S. consumers about $11 billion, effectively a tax rise. He noted Saudi Arabia may offset part of the rise by boosting production while the IMF urged more aid to oil importing nations.
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Washington
State Department
U.S
Julius L. Katz
Senate
Saudi Arabia
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
United Arab Emirates
Katz
OPEIA
Senate Banking Committee
World
William Prox
Mire
D-Wis
Proxmire
OPEC
United States
International Monetary Fund
U.S. State Department
Iran
Emirates
Qatar Radio
Kuwait
Abdul-Mutalleb Kazemi
Abdul Aziz Hussein
Hussein
Indonesia
Rabies Outbreak Reported Along Texas Border
CDC officials report a dog rabies outbreak centered in Laredo Texas with cases mainly in Webb County and one in Zapata County. No human rabies cases reported. about 15 people inoculated as a preventive measure. The border program remains the last major U S dog rabies effort.
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Texas-Mexico
Atlanta
Laredo
Federal Center For Disease Control
United States
William Winkler
CDC
Winkler
Peo
Mexico
Texas
Everett Haker
el Paso
Tex
Ciudad Juarez
Paul Musgrave
Harlingen
Musgrave
Webb County
Zapata County
GOP Leaders Split Over New National Chairman Choice
President Ford and Vice President Rockefeller back Jim Baker, Ford's campaign director, as they press for a Baker selection. Ronald Reagan and John Connally attended the White House meeting amid a four-way dispute over party leadership with no reporters present after a 90 minute luncheon.
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Washington
UPI
GOP
National Party
Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
James Baker
White House
Rockefeller
Ronald Reagan
California
John B. Connally
Texas
Mary
Louise Smith
Republican National Committee
Jim Baker
Baker
Defector: Kamikaze Orders Reported From Soviet Pilots
Hamburg report says defector Victor Belenko told interrogators Russian pilots have orders to die in suicide-style attacks rather than bail out. Stern cites CIA sources claiming he suffered a nervous breakdown during weeks of questioning and now lives on 1500 dollars monthly.
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Hamburg
West Germany
Stern
Victor I. Belenko
Central Intelligence Agency
Belenko
CIA
Soviet Union
Siberia
Eeks
Washington
Bolling Airorce
Tern
Goldwater Says He Was Excluded From White House Meeting
Sen Barry Goldwater vows to stop raising funds for the Republican Party after being left out of a White House meeting on selecting a new party chair. He calls the omission an insult and notes Gov Connally attended despite never running as a Republican.
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Washington
UPI
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Republican Party
White House
Goldwater
GOP
Ford
Rockefeller
Ronald Reagan
California
John Connally
Texas
Arizona
Henry Fountain Ashworth
Connally
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the Golden Spread
Ralph Duke
Nancigail Gill
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Charles Mitchell
Jimmy Carter
National Iranian Oil Co
Big Boys
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