Odessa approves Mission Pines subdivision plan
City Council unanimously backs Whitehead Construction to develop a 29.3 acre site between Dorado Drive and Mission Boulevard into a 123 home subdivision with homes up to 150000. Mission Pines is the second large project in 12 years, signaling Odessa’s growth.
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Odessa
Whitehead Construction
Dorado Drive
Mission Boulevard
Mission Dorado Country Club
Dorado and
Mission Drives
Justice Blackmun renounces death penalty
Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, aged 85, publicly declares he will no longer support capital punishment, saying the death penalty experiment has failed. The move, while unlikely to alter ongoing death row appeals, could renew national debate amid calls for tougher crime measures and faster executions.
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Supreme Court
Harry A. Blackmun
Blackmun
Ronald Reagan
Ge Bush
Thurgood Marshall
Nine men charged in NASA sting probe at Johnson Space Center
Nine men including two NASA workers and one contractor were charged with taking kickbacks and soliciting bribes in a 20 month FBI sting dubbed Operation Lightning Strike at the Johnson Space Center. General Electric and Martin Marietta were not charged but agreed to reimburse the government $1 million for probe costs.
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NASA
Houston
Corporation
Johnson Space Center
General Electric Corp
Martin Marietta Corp
FBI
U.S
Gay
Southern Technologies Diversified
Michael Wilson
Gaynelle Griffin Jones
Andrews May Get Jail Proposal From Private Firm
Midland based private prison company Technical Approach to Secure Confinement joined 12 other private and public entities in submitting proposals to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for a new state jail near the Andrews Ector and Midland county lines. The bid process solicited location design construction and operation details for nonviolent offender confinement with a lease purchase plan and per diem inmate payments.
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Midland Company
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Andrews County
Andrews, Ector
Midland County
TDCJ
U S charges CIA officer with spying
Former CIA counterintelligence chief Aldrich Ames and his wife face conspiracy to commit espionage charges for allegedly selling secrets to the Kremlin. The affidavit details dead drops $1.5 million in payoffs and a Russian agent inside the agency. If convicted they could get life in prison and a 250000 fine. The White House called the breach very serious and Russia was urged to take responsibility.
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U.S
White House
Clinton
Warren Leer
Vladimir Chkhikvishivili
Ames
Russia
United States
Boris Yeltsin
Rosario Casas Ames
Ofington
Alexandria
CIA
Spy cases span decades from CIA to Navy officials
The record lists Barnett pleading guilty in 1980 for spying for the Soviet Union between 1976 and 1979 in Indonesia, John A Walker Jr and his son Michael L Walker pleading guilty in 1985 to spying for the Soviet Union, Sharon Scranage pleading guilty in 1985 for disclosing intelligence agents’ names to a Ghanaian boyfriend, Larry Wu-Tai Chin convicted in 1986 for spying for China since 1952, and Jonathan Jay Pollard pleading guilty in 1986 for spying for Israel.
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CIA
David H. Barnett
Soviet Union
Indonesia
Navy
John A. Walker Jr
Michael L. Walker
Sharon Scranage
U.S
Larry Wu-Tai Chin
China
Jonathan Jay Pollard
Irael
Odessa cable rates may drop after FCC ruling
Odessa residents could see another 7 percent cut in cable charges if the FCC's latest order affects local pricing. Bruce Tipi, general manager of Post-Newsweek Cable, says rates already match FCC standards and questions applicability to Odessa. Previous uniform rates reduced September charges from 10.50 to 6.19 for basic services and 21.66 for expanded basic, with other services impacted.
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Bruce Tipi
Tipi
Odessa
Expanded Basic
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