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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1983
Page
5
A Marine's wife welcomes her husband as 1700 Marines who survived the Beirut bombing arrive home. Yellow ribbons line the 60 mile journey from the port to Camp Lejeune North Carolina.
Interior Secretary William P. Clark meets the National Wildlife Federation seeking to chart policy changes but provides few specifics. Environmentalists push for offshore oil and coal policy shifts, more wildlife funding, and firing Watt deputies, while Clark pledges access to lead poisoning records of waterfowl.
James Llewellyn Knowles testified as the state's key witness against Henry Francis Hays in the 1981 murder of Michael Donald. Knowles described Donald begging for mercy as he and Hays beat, strangled, and hoisted the victim’s body on a tree, saying the act aimed to show Klansman strength. Knowles said he tied the hangman’s noose and that Donald fought fiercely before the body was left hanging. Knowles pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge and faces a life term.
Education Secretary T H Bell said the Reagan administration will back some school improvement efforts but not a multi billion dollar nationwide standards push. He spoke at the National Forum on Excellence in Education in Indianapolis as President Reagan prepared to close the three day summit and urged state by state action toward ambitious targets by 1989.
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