Weather summary from Odessa American August 21 1983
Partly cloudy with isolated afternoon storms possible and temperatures near 90s across West Texas. Readings show high 103 at Midland airport and overnight low 76. Extended forecast calls for warm, mostly dry conditions with scattered showers in South Texas and cooler nights in North Texas.
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Rio Grande Valley
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Panhandle
West
Gulf Coast
Big Bend
Mercury
National Weather Service
Midland Regional
West Texas
North Texas
South Texas
Rio Grande Plains
Travenol Overcharges VA by 12.4 Million, Audit Says
The Chicago Sun Times reports a federal audit found Travenol Laboratories Inc. overcharged the Veterans Administration by 12.4 million dollars from 1979 to 1981. The VA inspector general backs forcing repayment plus about 4.7 million in interest through 1982.
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Chicago
Travenol Laboratories Inc
Deerfield
Veterans Administration
Chicago Sun- Times
Washington, D.C
Travenol
Pumpkins Hide Marijuana In Jamaica Shipment
U S Customs at Miami International Airport found 400 pounds of marijuana hidden inside hollowed pumpkins from Jamaica. The 6,600 pound shipment arrived on an Air Jamaica flight Friday, said official Kitty Pryor. Israel to Buy 75 F 16 Jets in 2 7 Billion Deal
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Kitty Pryor
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Israel
United States
Defense Ministry
Nahman Shai
Associated Press
Washington
Lebanon
Bomb tears U S bank in London branch
An explosion, likely from a bomb, damaged an American Express branch in London's financial district on Saturday night. A police spokesman said the blast left a scorched doorway and blown out windows with no casualties and that details were not yet clear.
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London
American Express
Financial District
AIDS Hotline Swamped By 13000 Daily Calls In San Francisco
As many as 13,000 callers daily flooded a federal AIDS information hotline in San Francisco with an equal number of calls not getting through. Shellie Lengel, head of the U S Public Health Service operation, called it evidence of deep public concern. The toll free line 800 342 AIDS began on July 5.
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Shellie Lengel
U.S. Public Health Service
Odessa American rate card and delivery notice
The Odessa American publishes daily and Sunday editions with home delivery options and mail subscription prices. Rates include daily and Sunday $81 yearly, $42 for Sunday. Sunday only $54 yearly, $28 for Sunday. Delivery problems phone number listed.
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Heat Wave Sweeps Nation As Records Fall Across States
Nebraska ranchers cool overheated herds with water while a Kansas farmer measures deep drought cracks. A Saturday heat wave sent 11 Indiana students to hospitals as Hurricane Alicia lingers in the midwest and East cools. Records toppled in Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia.
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Ohio
Tennessee
West Virginia
Chavez Becomes El Paso Police’s Youngest Sergeant After Desert Years
Chavez recalls a rough youth and a three year Army stretch that changed him. Returning to El Paso in 1967 he joined the police, patrolled four years, then became a detective and finally the department’s youngest sergeant. He says police work bred a defensive mindset and a crusading commitment to apprehend criminals.
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Chavez
el Paso
University of Texas At el Paso
Chavez Moves From Cop to Counselor in Odessa
In Odessa, Chavez shifts from police work to law, enrolling in Texas Tech Law School in 1975 and graduating in 1978. He becomes a private attorney after 1980, reflecting on how his policing past shapes a conservative yet expanded view of defending rights and preventing abuses in the justice system.
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Switzerland
Texas Tech Law School
Lubbock
Law
Ector County
John Green
Green
Mike Holmes
Odessa
Eskimos Oppose Tree-Line Landlock Plan
Yellowknife territorial council member Bob MacQuarrie says proposed route along the tree line would leave Eskimos landlocked, a stance voiced in a telephone interview amid territorial planning debates.
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Bob MacQuarrie
Territorial Council
Yellowknife
Nunavut new eastern territory name sparks land split
Dennis Patterson says boundary dispute can be resolved as Nunavut meaning our land is proposed for the eastern territory with about 20,000 residents and an Eskimo majority. Dene leaders favor Denedeh meaning our land as the western name with near equal white population.
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Dennis Patterson
Nunavut
Eastern Territory
West
Denedeh
Lawmaker Abroad Trips Prompt Air Travel Cost Debate
The Agriculture Committee chair de la Garza led a mission to New Zealand and Australia starting August 6, with travels justified by his roles. Public Citizen noted Tower's seven foreign trips, with Paris Brussels leg added, and costs cited for planes used by Tower and Goldwater delegations to international events.
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New Zealand
Australia
Public Citizen
Tower
Congress Watch
Paris
Brussels
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Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
London
Lawmakers Travel Abroad Raises Questions On Abuse And Recordkeeping
Public Citizen flags potential abuses in congressional travel while noting incomplete records. Texas lawmakers including Lloyd Bentsen and John Tower logged foreign trips, with Tower making seven visits to countries such as England Greece Germany and Denmark between 1981 and 1983.
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People’s Republic of China
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