Haig asserts foreign policy role amid embargo debate
Gen Haig moves quickly to shape policy and gains leverage against budget cutters while pushing back on lifting the Soviet grain embargo. Details on page 2A. Texas citrus growers enjoy higher orange and grapefruit prices after Florida freeze with no harvest halt due to union strike. Page 10. Ector Eagles rally behind Kevin Butler as he nets 25 points in 80-63 win over Lamesa to end a two game skid. Story on 1B.
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Alexander Haig
Texas
Florida
Texas Farmworkers Union
Ector
Kevin Butler
Eagles
Lamesa
Story
Loving County official indicted in crude oil theft case
Three Loving County men including Precinct 1 commissioner Clifford G. Ely were indicted by a Loving County grand jury for third degree felony theft of crude oil from American Petrofina Corp. in a seven month probe led by Sheriff Elgin R. Jones and Texas Ranger Joe Coleman. Swindle Hopper and Ely posted 10,000 bond each. trial date not set.
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Mentone
Loving County
Clifford G. Ely
Precinct 1
McKinley D. Hopper
Richard D. Swindle
American Petrofina Corp
Elgin R
Punk) Jones
Texas
Joe Coleman
Pecos
American Petrofina
Jones
143Rd
Larry Fuller
Coleman
Swindle
Loving
Donald Creager Ely
Hopper
Texas Ranger
Dallas
Reagan budget aims to cut wide range of social and transportation programs
Internal memo by budget director Stockman outlines potential cuts across most nonmilitary areas. Social programs like Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, unemployment, welfare and housing face reductions while transportation, energy, rural, space and urban development programs are trimmed. The package seeks to affect business beneficiaries too, framing cuts as fairness across sacred cows. Reagan plans to present the $40 to $50 billion 1982 cut package to Congress February 18, with O'Neill pledging to shield the poor from harm, and postal subsidies eyed for reduction, risking Saturday mail.
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Washington
Amtrak
Reagan
David Stockman
Associated Press
Stockman
GOP
Congress
Thomas P. O'Neill
O'Neill
Jimmy Carter
U.S. Postal Service
Health officials seek source of Houston meningitis outbreak
Medical sleuths from the Center for Disease Control join Houston health officials to trace a puzzling meningitis outbreak that has killed four people and infected 30 in Houston. State health officials say the disease has struck at least five statewide. Details, Page 2A.
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Center For Disease Control
Houston
Unemployment Holds Steady Amid Job Gains in January
January unemployment stood at 7.4 percent with 7.8 million jobless, while 97.7 million held jobs, as both payroll and household surveys show some strength despite mixed signals. The figures, amid White House and administration debate, underscore calls for the president's economic recovery program to restore growth and reduce inflation.
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Washington
Reagan
Prsident
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Janet Norwood
Commissioner of
Labor Statistics
Murray Weidenbaum
President's Council of Economic Advisers
Weidenbaum
White House
Odessa American reorganizes features into local news section
Features moved Obituaries the Matter of Record column and Tomorrow in Odessa will appear in the local news section starting Sunday. The pages on which they appear will be listed in the index on Page 1A each day for reader convenience.
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Odessa
Odessa American
Judge orders release of IRS data amid stay bid in Seattle
A federal judge gave the government 10 days to block his order releasing IRS data used to weight tax form entries for audits. The move followed intense cross country arguments as the Justice Department seeks a stay with the 9th Circuit. The tapes relate to the Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program for 1971 76 and a six year legal battle by Susan and Philip Long over access to the tapes.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Justice Department
U.S
Walter T. McGovern
Seattle
IRS
McGovern
9Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
San Francisco
Commerce Department
Susan Long
Princeton University
Philip
Longs
Supreme Court
9Th Circuit
Mary Joneston
Stephen Strong
Study finds wives do most housework worth over ten thousand
A Cornell study shows chores like cooking cleaning and mending add up to more than 10000 dollars for a family of four and that wives contribute the giant share of time and dollars regardless of whether they work outside the home. The researchers based their findings on almost 1400 families using 1979 wage rates and found no type of family where the husband teenager or younger child exceed four hours per day.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Cornell University
William H. Gauger
Kathryn Walker
Gauger
Ms. Walker
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
New York
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