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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1985
Page
1
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In Geneva Shultz and Gromyko pursue a path to reopen U S Soviet nuclear arms talks. They met for nearly two and a half hours at the Soviet mission then planned another session at the U S Mission. A news blackout remained in force as both sides cast the meetings as exploratory rather than negotiative.
Eight gunmen abducted Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, director of Catholic Relief Services in west Beirut, inside his Pontiac as he drove to work near the American University of Beirut. His Lebanese driver was beaten. the car was later abandoned and the priest taken away. The aide and police pursued details as Lebanon authorities investigated the incident.
A woman and her bundled child stand on a snow covered Montrose shore as a flock of sea gulls circles above seeking food amid cold lakefront gusts.
Mayor John Minor voiced disappointment over the south Odessa task force delaying its findings until after the April 6 election that will decide three City Council seats. Task force chairman Lee Norman said the group will present its recommendations later, noting a potentially changed council could consider them. Gary Rowe, another chair, described presenting findings as futile.
Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock warned that despite job growth and rising personal income, the next three years would be difficult for the state economy. He released the 1986-87 revenue estimate as he forecast regional economic trends and projected $36.6 billion in revenue, $4.6 billion more than 1984-85 but still short of required funds.
A British expert claims John Lloyd, a Welsh navigator known as John the Skilful, landed in the New World in 1475 nearly 1117 years before Columbus but kept the discovery secret to deter rivals. Lloyd traded with Greenlanders in violation of royal decree and mapped early routes, prefiguring Columbus’s later voyage.
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