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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1986
Page
2
Ron Reagan Jr and Justine Bateman rehearse with Quincy Jones Joel Siegel Joan Lunden and Joe Namath as experts for the ABC TV special Whatta Year 1986 airing Monday.
Fort Madison Iowa star Michael Gross dedicates a Chester S Gross Collection at the public library. The Family Ties actor gathered railroad books his grandfather Chester S Gross collected during his life with Santa Fe Railroad. The collection includes rare titles and honors the elder Gross who died last summer at age 90.
Character actress Elsa Lanchester died in Los Angeles Friday at age 84 after a long illness. She shared a 33 year marriage with Charles Laughton and acted in more than 50 films including The Private Life of Henry VIII and Witness for the Prosecution, with Oscar nominations for Come to the Stable and Witness for the Prosecution.
In Honolulu Tom Selleck distributed Christmas gifts to 300 Magnum P I cast and crew members, presenting each with a Bulova watch bearing the Magnum logo and inscription. In return the team gave Selleck an Ethel Moon Phase watch valued at about 15000 dollars as thanks for his work on the seventh season.
Time magazine selects Corazon Aquino as Woman of the Year for 1986 in New York. In a brief interview she credits the Filipino people with restoring belief in government and says unity awaits after the election and upcoming constitutional plebiscite.
Kabul radio quoted by BBC London said 17 rebels planned to smuggle hashish worth 10 million dollars from Kabul airport to New Delhi and then London with drugs said to have come from Pakistan. The report also claimed Afghan troops killed two CIA spies of Arab origin on December 24 in Parwan province.
Former representative Godwin reflects on efforts to restore University of Texas of the Permian Basin funds after committee cuts. He accuses Lewis of engineering the floor clash to discredit him, while predicting Watkins will face similar district obstacles. He cites weak community support and debates over keeping UTPB open.
A gunmaker argues his semiautomatic Avenger was miscast as a machine gun after a 1982 ATF reclassification. The Mac-10 inspired design drew orders in 1981, but legal status flipped when the weapon was redefined, ending civilian sales of semiautomatics turned machine guns.
The Sigalovs sought to leave the Soviet Union since Rachel’s birth and she learned to light a menorah at Memphis Hebrew Academy. In New York the Lubavitch Hasidim lit a 32 foot menorah using a cherry picker. Des Moines planned a two hour display of a 20 foot menorah at the Capitol after court disputes. Rabbi Copland planned outreach to Jews in towns without synagogues.
The National Weather Service at Midland reports a 20 percent chance of showers today under mostly cloudy skies with a high in the upper 40s and south winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a 20 percent rain chance and a low around 35. Monday’s forecast calls for clouds and a high near 50, with regional variations across North South and West Texas.
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