Museums vie for vintage Gooney Bird
Ector County reopens bids on a damaged WWII DC-3 known as the Gooney Bird after federal seizure for drug shipments. The county considers restoration versus donation, with West Texas Military Museum and Silent Wings Museum seeking the aircraft while bidders included U S Rank of North American Airlines and Charles Bela.
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West Texas Military Museum
Silent Wings Museum
Ector County
U.S
Schlemeyer Field
North American Airlines
Omaha
Neb
Charles Bela
Paso
Commissioners
Nonnie Smith
West Texas Military Museum Association
Smith
Terrell
Commissioners Court
Victor Silvester
Economic gauge up signals recovery in July
The Commerce Department reports the Index of Leading Indicators rose 1.3 percent in July, the fourth straight monthly gain after 11 months of decline. Building permits and raw material prices led the advance while claims for jobless benefits also improved, amid mixed signals from steel and housing indicators. The stock market recovered to its yearly high as optimism returned.
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Commerce Department
Poles protest as Solidarity marks second martial law anniversary
Thousands of protesters defied martial law marching through Warsaw Gdansk Wroclaw Nowa Huta to mark Solidarity's second anniversary. Police used tear gas water cannon and concussion grenades as crowds chanted freedom and solidarity. Demonstrations drew several thousand in Gdansk and Wroclaw with calls for lifting martial law and solidarity leader Lech Walesa.
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Thomas W. Netter
Associated Press
Warsaw
Poland
Gdansk
Wroclaw
Nowa Huta
Solidarity
Independent Union
Crakow
Baltic
Lech Walesa
Zemo
Abilene Abductor Apologizes After Abduction and Fatal Shooting
A man abducted a teenage couple in Abilene, fatally shot the youth, then apologized to the girl, offered $50 for medical expenses, and drove her to a hospital. Police say Russell Edward Jones and Sharon Pavioski, both 18 and Abilene High School graduates, described the incident and identified the suspect, later jailed on a felony warrant.
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Abilene
Russell Edward Jones
Sharon Pavioski
Abilene High School
Justice of the
Terry Straberry
Anson
Alien influx study finds no spike in illegal alien students in border districts
Texas border school officials report no clear rise in undocumented students after the Supreme Court ruled they must receive free public education. Districts cite lack of enrollment records and economic factors, with counts in Pharr San Juan Alamo and Brownsville showing modest figures compared with prior years.
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Texas
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S
D.W. Suttle
Texas Education Agency
Pena
People Accounting
Nancy Malstaff
Brownsville
Martin
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JR. Riel
Houston
Elizabeth Simpson
Ector County Commissioners
Precinct
Julian Pressly
Silvester
Pressly
County Commission
The
Odesha
Dewnis Copeland
Warsaw University
John Paul II
Our Lady of Czestochowa
Lenin
Brumley
Russell Jones
AP Laserprote
Soviet Union
Europe
Gorki
Britain
Reagan
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