Oil tract auction shatters bids at Gulf sale
New Orleans reporting records show Interior Secretary James Watt's offshore lease sale drawing 3.47 billion in bids. The event offered 656 of 7000 tracts, with Mobil Exploration Kerr-McGee Sohio leading a $92.3 million bid for Ship Shoal. Oilmen hailed the rare large sale as proof the market guides resource allocation.
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New Orleans
Interior
James Watt
Gulf of Mexico
Superdome
Watt
Washington
America
Dave Russell
Minerals Management Service
Gulf
Ship Shoal
Terrebonne Parish
Mobil Oil, Exploration and Producing, Southeast Inc
Kerr-McGee Corp
Sohio Petroleum
Odeco Oil and Gas Co
Murphy Oil
Democrats accuse Republicans of jamming telethon lines
Democrats accuse Republicans of planning to use Democratic fundraising telephone lines to respond to attacks on President Reagan. Party leaders call the move an unfair attempt to disrupt the telethon and threaten legal action if the plan proceeds.
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Washington
Reagan
Frank Fahrenkopf
Charles Manatt
Democratic Party
Manatt
Ex-King Idris of Libya dies in Cairo at 93
Idris, who united Libya before his 1969 ouster by Khadafy, dies in Misr International Hospital in Cairo at age 93. He had lived in Cairo since the coup, after earlier ruling Libya from 1920s through Mussolini era.
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Cairo
Egypt
Idris
Libya
Muammar Khadafy
Misr International Hospital
al Ahram
Benito Mussolini
NPR Board Approves Budget Cuts Amid 7 Million Deficit
NPR directors approve a plan that reduces staff by about 20 percent and cuts programming. A resolution seeks a member station vote to return 1.6 million dollars of 1984 earmarked funds to NPR to help shrink a roughly seven million dollar deficit.
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Washington
National Public Radio
Public Radio
NPR
EPA reverses resignation report for Sonia Crow
The EPA announced the resignation of Region Nine Administrator Sonia Crow but hours later said the report was incorrect. The agency apologized for the error and stated Crow remains in her post.
U S asks Cuba to take back some immigrants
The United States asked Cuba to accept several thousand of the 125 000 Cubans who fled during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Assistant Secretary Enders delivered a list of 789 inmates in Atlanta facing deportation and said visas would be limited to immediate relatives until Cuba agrees to return the ineligible group. The move marks a rare public diplomatic pressure bid by the Reagan administration.
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New York Times Service
Washington
United States
Cuba
Mariel
State Department
Department
Thomas Enders
inter-American Affairs
Ramon Sanchez-Parodi
Enders
Sanchez-Parodi
Atlanta
Deporta
Fidel Castro
Carter
Parasite Link Found Between Livestock and Human Diarrhea
Researcher Dr. William L. Current of Auburn University says a parasite carried by newborn calves and other animals can infect humans, causing diarrhea. The cryptosporidium organism, seen in cattle, cats, dogs, goats, and mice, may be a major, underrecognized cause of illness, especially for immune compromised patients. no treatment exists.
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William L. Current
Auburn University
Alabama
Current
New England Journal of Medicine
Centers For Disease Control
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