21 Feb 1999
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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1999
Page
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The Odessa American runs a Jobs Wanted section for workers displaced by the oil downturn. Call 333-7777 or visit WWW.0a0a.com for details and placement options.
British pilots Colin Prescot and Andy Elson performed a 10 minute skywalk 8000 feet above Mauritania to fix the fuel system and adjust a camera on their 200-foot balloon as they wait for a favorable jet stream. They plan to drift south of the Himalayas and cross India on their non stop global bid.
Chinook the polar bear at Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City places a paw on one of her two newborn cubs. The cubs born weighing about 1 pound on Thanksgiving now weigh 16 to 20 pounds. Public viewing begins mid April with names chosen later in a zoo contest.
John Bell, an independent West Texas oilman from Kermit, led a bold lobby push for oil relief. He organized a 300-plus march to Austin and, backed by the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, pressed legislators to back voluntary shut-ins and other measures while facing anti trust warnings.
Dwayne Taylor organizes Hobbs and Santa Fe demonstrations inspired by the Texas Oil Workers and Producers March. He cites Bell Hobs as the spark and aims to educate lawmakers about the ongoing oilfield crisis as layoffs mount nationwide. The Hobbs rally starts at 2 pm at Lea County Cultural Center. Santa Fe protest at 1 30 pm March 6 at the State Capital Building.
RAMBOUILLET France AP Unable to win Serb concessions on a NATO peacekeeping force but reporting substantial movement toward Albanian autonomy the United States and five other nations agreed to extend to Tuesday a dead line for a Kosovo peace agreement. NATO had threatened airstrikes against the Serbs if they did not reach an agreement with Albanian insurgents by noon Saturday. The talks continued for more than seven hours beyond that dead line and British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine told a Saturday night news conference that the new deadline would be 8 a.m. Tuesday. Neither of us is predicting there will be an agreement by Tuesday but what we have seen over the past 24 hours is substantial movement Cook said referring to provisions in the plan to give the Albanians maximum autonomy but not independence Vedrine said the Yugoslav government of Slobodan Milosevic has not yet agreed to the NATO peace keeping troops that would enforce a settlement but we have not given up on convincing the government of Via Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made clear who she felt was preventing a deal accusing the Serb negotiators led from Belgrade by Milosevic of evasion and delay She said without NATO peace keepers taking over for Serb troops and police in the province an agree would be just a piece of The Serbs refusal to even consider the peace implementation force is largely responsible for our failure to reach an agreement Albright said But it is worth trying it is worth pushing again with Milosevic she said adding it would be a grave See KOSOVO on Page 3A Capital murder defendant John William King right grins Friday as he is escorted
AP reporting on John William King’s capital murder trial following the 1997 dragging death of James Byrd Jr. Jurors hear about King’s racist tattoos and intent to kill a black man to spur a white supremacist group. Prosecutors present witnesses and exhibits as the case advances.
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