Highway funding dispute stalls major projects nationwide
The stalled federal highway funds dueling House and Senate actions threaten $7.2 billion in allocations. Boston, Texas and 43 states face delays while Georgia reports at least $170 million in Interstate 75 and 85 work in Atlanta idled. States rely on federal fuel taxes, with no clear short-term solution.
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Thomas P
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Texas
Highway Department
Georgia
Atlanta
Texas prison violence hits new record deaths in 1981
Prison officials face epidemic violence as twenty four inmates die violently this year, doubling the prior record from 1981. Weapons are improvised from common items, with strip searches only partly stopping the problem. In Corfield Unit a close custody inmate killed a cellmate, and officials warn they are near the rope in resolving the crisis.
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Loopholes fatten GOP campaign bankrolls in 1984 race
Wagman notes the soft money loophole lets parties exceed national spending limits through state and local groups. He cites the GOP outspending Democrats in voter registration, GOTV, and candidate support, aided by large fundraising and leftover funds for TV ads and polling.
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Frank Fahrenkopf
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Fahrenkopf
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Texas
North Carolina
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House Committee
Republican Committee
Senate
Democratic Senatorial
National Republican Senatorial Committee
Soviets Develop Super-Poisons for Biological Warfare
CIA reports cite a Soviet program hidden in the Defense Ministry with eight sites under Gen Ogarkov. Researchers aim at biologically active silicon compounds, organ fluorines, marine toxins, and blue-green algal neurotoxins. Sleep peptides and ultra-fast incapacitating agents are studied, potentially produced in small facilities with genetic engineering, described as super-poisons.
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National Security Council
Defense Ministry
V.I. Ogarkov
CIA
Dale van Atta
Laos
Messiah concert led by Sale featured in San Mark's program
The Baytown Sun note recalls December 1964 events including REL choir director Tommy Seale leading Handel's Messiah at St Mark's Methodist Church with Ewell Clarke on organ. Also mentioned are the ordination of trustees at First Presbyterian and local civic happenings in Baytown and Harris County.
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Baytown Sun
Lucy Ray Pryor
Junior Classical League
Robert E. Lee High School
Robert Lee Harrell Jr
Rel
Goose Creek
Baytown
Baytown Utility Corp
Harris County Water and Improvement District No. 7
Frank Read
C.H. Gillette
A.M. Montjoy
American Legion
Chambers County
Guy Cade Jackson
Harris County Mayors and Councilmen Association
San Jacinto Inn
Jackson
New
Trinity Navigation District
National Honor Society
Mary Louise Ewing
Charles Kitzman
Beverly Hildebrandt
John Robert Shewell
Mary Bowen
J.W. Stoerner
Marian McMaster
Betty Cope
Lloyd Cannon
Dan Nicholson
Trinity Episcopal Church
Mexico
Baytown Fair Association
James Stricklin
Ruel Laughlin
Raymond Brock
Sherman Zimmerman
Gloria Gay Minter
Edward Mercer
Donnie Blackford
Glenn Hensley
Wendel Hunt
Bernard Selensky
James Hovard
Joe Allen
Joe Oliver
H.W. Oliver
Ed Gunn
Sammie Minter
Ella Mae Parker
Melvin Parker
Alvin Bachmeyer
Tommy Plato
William Franklin Roark
Today in History December 13 highlights and events
The 1984 date marks 348th day of the year with 18 remaining. Notable events include 1981 martial law in Poland against Solidarity, its lift in 1983, Dartmouth College charter in 1769, Fredericksburg defeat in 1862, Gershwin debut in 1928, and a kamikaze hit on the Nashville in 1944 killing 138 crewmen.
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Solidarity Labor Movement
Soviet Union
Poland
Dartmouth College
Fredericksburg
George Gershwin
Paris
New Yorks
Carnegie Hall
U.S
Nashville
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