Scattered Showers Forecast Across Texas Through Weekend
The Associated Press reports scattered showers and thunderstorms across most of Texas tonight and Saturday with areas of clear skies in North Texas. Expect partly cloudy skies, warm humid conditions, and highs mainly in the 90s to near 105 in the Big Bend, with coast highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s to 70s. Scattered activity was noted along the South Plains Edwards Plateau and coastal regions at dawn.
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Associated Press
Texas
Hill Country
Big Bend
Davis Mountains
South Plains
Edwards Plateau
Phone rate hike may lower bills slightly
The Public Utility Commission staff proposes a 35.4 million dollar rate hike for Southwestern Bell to include a nickel monthly decrease in basic home service. New operator assistance and conversation interruption charges would add revenue, with reduced free directory assistance calls offsetting the gain.
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Austin
Public Utility Commission
Southwestern Bell
PUC
Bell
Senate Democrats urge sanctions on South Africa
Washington AP reports Leading Senate Democrats press for immediate sanctions mirroring the House vote to divest U.S. business interests from South Africa. Senators Kennedy Cranston and Weicker back quick hearings and aim to place the Dellums bill on the Senate calendar before adjournment, despite Reagan administration objections and House opposition.
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Washington
Senate
Chamber
House
U.S
South Africa
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
Ronald Dellums
D-Calif
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Richard Lugar
R-Ind
Congress
Lugar
George Shultz
Reagan
Kennedy
Sens
Alan Cranston
Lowell Weicker
R-Conn
Senate Committee
Cranston
Miller awaits appeal after espionage conviction in Los Angeles
Richard W. Miller, the FBI agent convicted of espionage, faces possible life in prison with sentencing set for July 14 after a jury found him guilty on six counts. Jurors said his admissions aided the case, and they rejected his claim that his affair with Svetlana Ogorodnikov was part of a double agent plan.
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Los Angeles
Richard W. Miller
FBI
Court of Appeals
Miller
Soviet Union
U.S
David Kenyon
Svetlana Ogorodnikov
KGB
Ogorodnikov
Nikolay
United States
Tax overhaul vote in Senate nears final weekend showdown
The Senate plans a final 4 p.m. Tuesday vote on landmark tax overhaul legislation after days of amendments. Dole and Byrd cut a deal to limit amendments and lock the vote time, with House-Senate talks pending to reconcile differences. The measure would alter deductions for state and local taxes and add a 60 percent excess-sales-tax deduction in states where sales tax exceeds income tax.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Bob Dole
David Pryor
D-Ark
Pryor
Dole
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
House
Finance
Finance Committee
Slade Gorton
Dan Evans
Alaska
Connecticut
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Mexico
North Dakota
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Wyoming
Farm crisis conference convenes at Texas university
Necie Gresham described paying 290 dollars per acre for her 640 acre Lubbock farm 12 years ago and losing it to a lien holder who sold it for 52 dollars per acre. About 200 attended the National Farm Crisis Workers Conference at the University of Texas at Arlington sponsored by the Texas Department of Agriculture and FarmAid.
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Arlington
Necie Gresham
Lubbock
Fmha
Gresham
National Farm Crisis Workers Conference
University of Texas At Arlington
Texas Department of Agriculture
FarmAid
Texas
Farmers Home Administration
Jim Hightower
Hightower
Reagan
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Robert Bonner
James McClure
Idaho
Midwest
Nancille Gallimore
Texas Farm Crisis
Gallimore
Rick Phillips
Phillips
Creeby
Canton
Seer
Bay Temperature Control Inc
N. Main
Hal-Dee Enterprises
Quali
Sun Oi
Mt. Belvieu
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