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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 2000
Page
1
An Amarillo e commerce firm promotes buying and selling oil leases and well interests online. The University Interscholastic League names Permian High School teacher Missy Head among fifteen top coaches.
A Pacific Northwest windstorm Sunday left hundreds of thousands without power. A 19 year old man, Hien Nguyen of Lacey, was killed when a 120 foot fir toppled onto his pickup. Gusts reached 115 mph at Cannon Beach, Oregon, with other damaging winds across the region.
A scene from the German French border region shows a few trees poking through Saturday mist on Schauinsland at sunset. In the distance the Vosges rise while the Rhine valley below is veiled by clouds.
Hundreds packed the Rose of Sharon Baptist Church for a community musical celebration honoring Martin Luther King Jr. organized by the Black Cultural Council of Odessa. Local ministers and musicians from several denominations offered messages and performances in the weeklong observance.
A lone statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin remains in place as Russia contemplates political change. The far right movement gathers attention amid debates on national identity and historical memory, with protests and policy discussions shaping the country’s evolving landscape.
In Pavlovsk Posad, a 72 000 population town near Moscow, many locals see Vladimir Putin as a beacon amid economic decline. A 20 year old trousers seller Katya Lyubimova voices hope in his ability to keep promises and deliver results as the town clings to Soviet era surroundings such as Lenin’s statue on Revolution Square.
Russian warplanes circled Grozny all day delivering bombs as the Defense Ministry reported 120 rebels killed in the past 24 hours. Rebel commander Isa Munayev said at least 18 civilians died in Sunday’s bombardment.
New York AP reports interactive television could turn the passive act of watching into an active engagement with games stock quotes chat and targeted advertising. AOL Time Warner merger may speed adoption while Microsoft Web TV already serves about a million users. Analyst comments emphasize TV as the platform of the future.
Alpine publisher Ralph Damiani, editor of the Alpine Observer, disputes the belief that a town cannot support two newspapers. The Buckner News Alliance, based in Seattle and publisher of the Monahans News and Pecos Enterprise, launched the Observer in September, arguing there is room for diverse local papers.
NASA will end the fruitless hunt for life signs from the Mars Polar Lander as the 165 million mission is declared unsalvageable. The three legged lander, aimed at studying the atmosphere and ice near Mars south pole, went silent before its Dec 3 descent. Investigators will review the Mars program while continuing to seek explanations for the failure and prepare next year’s launch Of another lander and orbiter, though part of the mission is now in doubt.
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