Odessa police chief reshuffles department to create new deputy roles
Odessa Police Chief Alan R. Stewart announced a top level reorganization naming three veterans to deputy chief posts. Wendell Walker leads Services and Administration, Jack Fillyaw heads Detective Division, and Floyd Garrett takes Patrol and Traffic. Walker, 47, has 21 years service. Fillyaw, 57, 25 years. Garrett, 35, ten years. Garrett holds a BA in Criminal Justice from UT Permian Basin and an associate degree from Odessa College.
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Odessa
Alan R. Stewart
George Scarpa
Stewart
Wendell Walker
Walker
Odessa College
FBI Academy
Quantico Virginia
Jack Fillyaw
Fillyaw
Fillyan
Floyd Garrett
Garrett
Police Department
University of Texas of the
Permian Basin
Whoopers in Canada Nyarling hatchling begins long migration
In Wood Buffalo National Park Canada a whooping crane chick named Miss Nyarling hatched in June and later became the focus of a pioneering tracking project. Biologists strapped a radio transmitter to her leg to monitor a planned 2600 mile migration to Aransas Texas. The first mile by mile tracking followed the October 4 launch with scientists from both nations supervising the effort.
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Leslie Williams
Corpus Christi
Caller-Times
Caribou
Canada
Wood Buffalo National Park
Alberta
Northwest Territories
North America
Nyarling
Miss Nyarling
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
Texas
Canadian Wildlife Service
Ernie Kuyt
University of Idaho
Rod Drewien
Wood Buffalo
South Texas
Talks begin on MBFR in Geneva amid cordial opening
Soviet and American negotiators opened substantive talks on intermediate range missiles in Europe at Lake Geneva. Paul Nitze and Yuri Kvitsinsky led the sessions, photographed in a ceremonial start, with Maynard Glitman praising Kvitsinsky’s tie as they began the MBFR talks.
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Baltimore Sun
Geneva
Europe
U.S
Lake Geneva
Paul H. Nitze
Yuri A. Kvitsinsky
Maynard W. Glitman
State Department
Kvitsinsky
Glitman
Vienna
Central
Talks legacy frames two decade arms debates
Kvitsinsky spent two years on the Soviet delegation to the talks and Nitze recalls SALT I. Nitze joined the U.S. delegation that negotiated the first treaty, resigned in 1974 over perceived concessions, and later campaigned against SALT II, signed in 1979 but not ratified. Page 2A continues.
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Kvitsinsky
Nitze
U.S
Pentagon study shapes push for zero option in talks
William Beecher reports that the Pentagon backed a zero option in intermediate range missile negotiations after a study found 100 Soviet SS-20 missiles could wipe out 250 to 300 vital NATO Europe targets. Richard Perle noted 100 missiles with three warheads each could destroy bases, storage sites, and ports, with 50 launchers plus reloads. White House officials later favored zero as Weinberger breached the option.
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Washington
Pentagon
Europe
Richard Perle
International Security Policy
NATO
Perle
White House
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
National Security Council
Allen Needed Controversy Battle Plan
AP News Analysis discusses the Allen matter as a pattern in administrations. It contrasts installment disclosures with a total upfront release, citing Nixon and Bert Lance as precedents and noting Allen faced ongoing questions over a $1,000 honorarium, two watches, and a consulting sale. The piece warns against staggered disclosures and warns of ballooning media scrutiny.
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Walter R. Mears
Washington
Richard V. Allen
Reagan
Allen
Nancy Reagan
White House
William French Smith
Justice Department
Bert Lance
Carter
Georgia
Lance
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
John D. Ehrlichman
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Sundown Bay
Aransas Wildlife Refuge
Texas Marsh
Ly Hal Piper
Soviet Union
By William Beecher
Boston Globe
FBI
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