Keating Five pressure linked to Lincoln Savings losses
Washington reports that five U.S. senators pressured regulators to delay enforcement actions against Lincoln Savings and Loan, with Dennis DeConcini pressed to waive a rule on direct investments. Testimony before the Senate Ethics Committee called the effort the wrong direction and harmful to taxpayers. Space Center Houston NASA aims to fix its 150 million observatory as Columbia’s mission faces delays. Astronaut-astronomers Parise and Parker logged 36 percent of planned observation time, down from earlier periods, as they viewed a distant galaxy with a suspected black hole and Crab Nebula.
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Daily News Launches Afternoon Edition Amid Strike Fallout
The Daily News in New York started an afternoon edition after a six week strike. 30,000 copies were distributed on the first press run as managers used replacement workers and crossers. Publisher James Hoge touted the move while union adviser Theodore Kheel dismissed it as doomed. The paper had previously held the nation’s third highest circulation at 1.09 million, but losses exceeded half.
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Whites acquitted in mob attack in Bensonhurst
In Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst district two white men, Joseph Serrano and James Patino, were acquitted of murdering Yusuf Hawkins, a 16 year old black boy killed during a 1989 mob attack. A third defendant, Joseph Fama, was convicted of murder.
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Navy officials sacked amid recycled bottle push
Navy officials were removed from duty after a reform drive tied to a recycled soda bottle program. The shakeup affects leadership across multiple commands and signals a broader cleanup effort within the service.
Pocket radio saves guard from fatal gunfire in LA
Gary Lee a 24 year old security guard survived a robbery in South Central Los Angeles when a .25 caliber bullet pierced his jacket but lodged in an AM radio valued at 4.95. The robbers fled with hundreds of dollars. Police have no suspects and call the incident highly unusual. Lee says he kept the radio for football game listening during his shift.
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DC-9 Pilot Lost in Fog Before Fatal Detroit Runway Collision
Transcript shows DC-9 pilot William Lovelace reporting fogbound, unsure of position as another Northwest Boeing 727 was clearing for takeoff. Collision at Detroit airport killed ten, injured twenty four. both crews survived. NTSB cites visibility trouble while withholding exact dialogue.
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Democrats mull war surtax to fund Iraq action
Washington lawmakers discuss a 5 to 10 percent income tax surcharge to pay for potential war costs in the Persian Gulf. Senate budget chief James Sasser urges funding methods to avoid borrowing against future generations. The idea faces White House pushback and mixed GOP reaction, echoing Johnson era wartime taxation.
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EPA study links high passive smoke exposure to cancer risk
An EPA panel meeting in Arlington discussed two draft reports on passive smoking. Dr. Michael Cummings of Roswell Park Cancer Institute warned that 91 percent of non-smokers face high smoke exposure, potentially elevating lung cancer risk for baby boomers’ children. Panel conflicts of interest were raised as researchers disclosed tobacco industry funding.
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Arlington Hotel
Weather zones Douglas County Night and Thursday forecast
Zone 15 to 16 and other zones show tonight mostly cloudy with lows 20s to 30, and Thursday cooler with partly to mostly cloudy skies. Highs span 40 to 50 degrees, with northerly winds 10 to 20 mph in several zones.
Local forecast and Clinton Lake report update
Tonight remains cloudy with north winds 10 to 20 mph and a low near 25. Thursday brings partly cloudy skies and cooler by a high around 44 with north winds 10 to 20 mph. Overnight Thursday night stays cloudy with north winds 15 to 20 mph and a low near 34. Official readings show a Tuesday high 40 and low 20 with no precipitation. Clinton Lake temperature 48 degrees and level 876.39 feet above mean sea level, normal 875.5 feet.
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Travel outlook across Missouri Nebraska Oklahoma and Colorado
Missouri sees tonight with fair skies and chilly lows 20s northwest 30s southeast Thursday brings partly sunny skies with highs 40s northwest 50s southeast Nebraska reports partly cloudy tonight with teens and sunny Thursday highs 30s to 40s Oklahoma forecasts cloudy tonight with light snow flurries Panhandle low 20s and 40s southeast Thursday partly cloudy with snow Panhandle highs 40s Panhandle and 50s southeast Colorado expects 2 to 6 inches of snow in western mountains tonight with light flurries east low 15 to 25 east 5 to 20 west 0 to 15 mountains Thursday snow south highs 30s 40s southeast 20s mountains Road conditions advised by state patrol and Turnpike Authority at 843-8250.
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