FAA Threatens San Francisco Airport Over Noise Standards
United Feature Syndicate report notes FAA may withhold $8 million in safety funds from San Francisco International Airport to force compliance with federal noise limits. The dispute centers on SFIA setting stricter standards than the FAA, prompting criticism from Rep. Tom Lantos and comments by FAA counsel E Trazewell Ellett.
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Washington
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
PAA
San Francisco International Airport
San Francisco International
Tom Lantos
D-Calif
Donald Engen
Lucette Lagnado
San Francisco Bay
Bayshore
Santos
San Mateo County
San Francisco
California
Air Freight Company
E. Trazewell Ellett
Engen
Warden’s view of executions at Angola prison
Tom Tiede profiles Frank Blackburn warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. The piece details the 72 hour countdown to electrocution, the Death House routine, the guard’s calm stance, the electrician “Sam Jones” handling the switch, and justifications seen by inmates and staff as the system’s reality.
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Angola
Frank Blackburn
Blackburn
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Sam Jones
Mawanu Wee Enterprise
New Zealand in vulnerable spot after ANZUS clash
The United States suspends New Zealand from ANZUS security protections over Port calls by nuclear ships. Australia and U S officials urge corrective steps while noting the pact remains intact but New Zealand is not protected if no policy change occurs. Diplomatic observers doubt rapid change.
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Australia
United States
New Zealand
U.S
David Lange
South Pacific
George Shultz
Bill Hayden
Fox returns to Zoo In 1931 Baytown piece recalls Joe the fox
A Baytown Sun file recounts the 1931 homecoming of Joe the fox to Pelly Zoo after a woods jaunt. Fireman Dave Wilkens helps escort the animal to the zoo as officers of local welfare groups consider plots for winter gardens, with W. J. Busch offering 10 acres on Cedar Bayou and FE Aron providing two Goose Creek tracts. The item also notes Highlands football eligibility, refinery accidents, and early local civic actions.
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Baytown Sun
Joe
Pelly Zoo
Dave Wilkens
tri-Cities Welfare League
W.J. Busch
Cedar Bayou
FE. Aron
Goose Creek
Harmon Lowman
Austin
Highlands
Robert E. Lee
Today in History highlights from August 27, 1986
On August 27 events remembered include Krakatoa eruption in 1883 with 36000 lives lost in Java and Sumatra, significant births such as Hegel in 1770 and Lyndon B. Johnson in 1908, the Kellogg Briand Pact of 1928, WWII events in 1945, Mountbatten death in 1979, and space and science notes. Birthdays listed include Mother Teresa, Martha Raye, Tommy Sands, Daryl Dragon, and Tuesday Weld.
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Associated Press
Krakatoa
Indonesia
Sunda Strait
Java
Sumatra
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Stuttgart
Edwin L. Drake
United States
Titusville
Lyndon B. Johnson
Stonewall
Texas
Paris
Japan
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Mother Teresa
Martha Raye
Tommy Sands
Daryl Dragon
Tuesday Weld
Spirit of the Lord God anoints to preach good tidings
A Biblical verse proclaims the Spirit of the Lord God rests on the speaker. He is anointed to preach to the meek, bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to captives, and open prison doors for the bound.
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Jack Anderson
Burlington Northern Air Freight
Burlington Northern
Dallas-Fort Worth
FFA
Coast Guard
Miami
Pantry Pride
Beaver Street Foods
White House
United Feature Syndicate
Joseph Spear
Desroe Beach
Tom Tiede
NW ‘Editorial
Sun
Fox
George Lancaster
Leo Ciruti
Lloyd Ciruti
Manuel S. Ciruti Jr
Baytown
DeVerter
American Society For Testing Materials
Pete Leibhaim
Armed Services
Anthony
Dennis
Thomas
David
Reagan
Christa McAuliffe
New Hampshire
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Baytown Hun
Wanda Orton , Ramona Merrill
Bill Cornwell
Torial Department
P.O. Bax
Ephat
Cern
Leon Brown
Fred Hamberge
Fred Mortman
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