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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 2000
Page
1
A university announces it will become the sole state institution to grant a bachelor of arts degree in leadership studies this fall. The move highlights academic expansion and new credentialing within a public higher education system.
British actor Sir Alec Guinness, famed for Hamlet and Obi Wan Kenobi, died at 86 after a stay in King Edward VII Hospital. He had a 66 year career spanning postwar comedies to epic dramas and hailed as a surviving member of Britain's greatest generation of actors.
Wildlife has settled in the collapsed bonfire ruins where 12 Aggies died and 27 were injured last November. Logs will be removed this week and animals will be relocated. security guard Annette Hallmark notes hope and life emerging from tragedy. Logged sheltering species include birds, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, and a nutria.
A family marks what would have been Jay Jesus Herrera II’s 17th birthday with a purple balloon at an Ector County grave. Cemetery directors describe flexible policies on mementos, allowing items on markers if under four feet tall, with leniency for new losses and ongoing remembrance.
Republican candidate George W. Bush and running mate Dick Cheney rally across Illinois on a three day whistle stop tour. Bush vows to revive a veto dest in tax cut for married couples if elected while attacking Clinton on the veto. Gore backs a different married couple tax cut but would sign one. He promotes Social Security protection and stock market options for younger workers.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez begins an OPEC swing that will include a first foreign head of state visit to Saddam Hussein in Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War sanctions. He seeks a new balance of power and closer ties with Cuba's Fidel Castro as part of a broader independent foreign policy.
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