Baker resigns to rescue Bush campaign
President Bush appoints James Baker III as chief of staff in a shakeup to energize his lagging re election bid. Baker will resign as secretary of state and displace Samuel Skinner who becomes Republican National Committee chair. Acting secretary Lawrence Eagleburger will lead the State Department.
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Clayton Yeutter
Lawrence Eagleburger
Henry Kissinger
Middle East
Bill Clinton
Tennessee
al Gore
Democratic Party
Ron Brown
James Baker
Republican Party
Henry Hyde
Treasury Secre
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Reagan
Abc-Washington Post
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Perot Tops List of Texas 100 Wealthiest
Dallas billionaire Ross Perot tops Texas Monthly's 100 richest Texans with a 3.25 billion fortune. Four Midlanders earn spots in oil and gas, including Jack Eugene Brown, Cyril Wagner, John Lee Cox, and Clarence Scharbauer Jr. The minimum wealth to qualify falls to 120 million from 130 million due to economic downturn.
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Dallas
Ross Perot
Texas Monthly Magazine
Perot
Superrich
Jack Eugene Brown
Cyril Wagner
John Lee Cox
Clarence Scharbauer Jr
Texas Monthly
Texas
Christine Carroll
Journalist slain as premier visits Sarajevo
An American ABC TV producer, David Kaplan, 45, was killed by a sniper in Milan Panic's convoy during a Sarajevo day marked by violence and international maneuvering. Sarajevo hospital shelling and three more deaths followed as the UN prepared for possible force to aid humanitarian relief. Turkey offered 480 elite troops for a potential UN mission amid regional tensions.
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United States
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ABC
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Security Council
Turkey
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Bosnia
Crater theory gains support for dinosaur extinction claim
Researchers date an 111 mile wide buried crater off Mexico as the impact site of a space rock 65 million years ago. The finding supports the asteroid impact theory of dinosaur demise, though many scientists favor Earthly causes such as Deccan Traps volcanism.
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Mexico
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Walter Alvarez
University of California At Berkeley
Charles B. Officer
Dartmouth College
India
Midland Odessa Transportation Alliance Forms to Monitor Interstate Plan
Midland and Odessa unite to lure an interstate extension into the Permian Basin. The Midland Odessa Transportation Alliance, a seven member group led by Odessa’s Charles Perry Sr., will oversee routing decisions for the interstate project.
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Odessa
Permian Basin
Charles Perry Sr
Couple sentenced 99 years for starvation death of son
A Fort Worth couple Jay Hill and Linda Hill were sentenced to 99 years in prison for injury to a child in the starvation death of their 13-year-old son Stephen last November. The jury found the confinement chain a deadly weapon and set a minimum 15 years before parole. Stephen weighed 55 pounds at death and was described as looking like a 6-year-old.
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Jay Hill
Linda
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Stephen Hill
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