Shuttle Misses Hazard Near Space Junk, 7.7 Miles Nearby
Columbia astronauts Ken Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield passed 7.7 miles from the orbiting remains of a Soviet rocket booster as part of mission test one. Controllers noted no collision risk and the shuttle continued toward Edwards Air Force Base. The crew woke to Chariots of Fire and performed routine checks including a treadmill repair and EMU testing for future spacewalks.
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AP Aerospace
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Columbia
Mission Control
Ken Mattingly
Henry Hartsfield
Australia
Stage
Mattingly
Hartsfield
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Reagan
Ector County plans: bonds, jail, and youth center expansion
The Road and Bridge Department site may be sold to the Ector County Independent School District to fund a relocation project. A 16,000 square foot addition to the Youth Center would double capacity for 20 more youths at an estimated cost of 998,350. A 5,000 square foot sheriff helicopter hangar at Schlemeyer Field is priced at 285,000.
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8Th Street
Vine Avenue
Ector County Independent School District
Ector County
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Schlemeyer Field
Ken Fields
Peters and Fields
Bob Covington
Covington and Taylor Architects
Watkins
Midland
Ector
Midland County
District Court Clerk
Fields
Scandal grows as father defends son amid Capitol Hill probe
The father insists his son did nothing wrong and did not use drugs while a Justice Department inquiry widens to include claims that congressmen sought female pages. A separate federal grand jury is examining a cocaine ring on Capitol Hill with unidentified California congressmen among those said to have testified.
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Post
Washington
Justice Department
Justice
Capitol Hill
New York Daily News
California
Unnamed House Staffers Cite Cocaine Use by Lawmakers
The report quotes unidentified House staffers alleging at least one lawmaker regularly used cocaine in the presence of young women at his home. House Speaker ONeill said the charges must be determined swiftly and fairly. Senate leaders expressed disbelief and ordered inquiries to assess any relevance to the Senate. A Colorado youth who raised the issue claimed knowledge of but did not attend such parties.
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House
Thomas P. O’neill Jr
Dmass
Senate
Howard H. Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Colorado
Justice Department
Congress
Panel approves massive 98 billion dollar tax package
The Senate Finance Committee advanced a broad 98 billion dollar package of tax increases affecting health care, cigarettes, and telephone service. The bill, crafted to cut the federal deficit, would lift about 21 billion in 1983 and roughly 98 billion over 1983 to 1985. The measure, supported by a directive to curb deficits, moves to the House with action anticipated later this month.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Key taxes outlined on Senate Finance panel bill
The Senate Finance Committee approved a tax increase bill with changes effective Jan 1 1983. Provisions include higher air and cigarette taxes, raised unemployment and telephone levies, stricter minimum tax, altered capital gains rules, restricted corporate deductions, and removal of a dividends reinvestment exemption.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Court rules states cannot ban interstate water shipments
The Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, strikes down a Nebraska provision banning the shipment of groundwater to states that do not permit Nebraska water shipments. Colorado farmers Joy Sporhase and Delmer Moss challenged the law, citing federal constitutional limits on state water control.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Nebraska
Congress
John Paul Stevens
Colorado
Joy Sporhase
Delmer Moss
New York
Missing Colorado professor's truck linked to Mexican officials
In Mazatlan the missing University of Colorado economist Nicholas Schrock, 42, is connected to the San Ignacio mayor and police chief through a truck found in their possession. U.S. officials request FBI help to study fingerprints and two blood-like stains on the seat. Schrock was last seen May 30 driving south to join a summer teaching post in Guadalajara. A missing persons report was filed in early June.
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Mexico City
United States
Mexico
FBI
San Ignacio
U.S
Mazatlan
Ronald Kramer
Nicholas Schrock
Schrock
University of Colorado
Autonomous University of Guadalajara
Ford seeks Japanese partner in Rouge Steel venture
Ford Motor Co. contemplates selling an equity stake in Rouge Steel Co. to a Japanese firm as negotiations progress. UAW and Rouge workers’ union leaders hint a Japanese company would become the partner, while Ford officials decline to comment. The report frames this as a significant shift for Rouge amid Ford’s reorganized steel division. The article notes related Supreme Court ruling on kiddie pornography after the term’s close.
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United Auto Workers Union
Ford Motor Co
Rouge Steel Co
Ford
Rouge
Detroit
Odessa American publication and mailing details
The Odessa American is published daily and Sunday for $73 yearly. It is entered in the Odessa Texas post office as second class matter under the act of March 3, 1879. Postmaster address changes should be sent to P O Box 2952 Odessa Texas 79760. Home delivery.
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Fourth Street
Odessa
Texas
Odessa American
P.O
Weather summary for Fourth of July weekend
Partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures shape the forecast for a holiday weekend with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Tonight's low in the upper 60s, winds southerly at 5 to 10 mph. Saturday high in the mid 90s, southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Earlier today showers moved from near Eagle Pass to San Angelo with another band in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and a small rain area near Childress. Readings from Midland show a Thursday high of 90 and overnight low 69. Precip yesterday 0.02 inch. year to date 6.30 inches.
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Rio Grande Valley
Childress
Texas
Valley
Lubbock
Galveston
Brownsville
McAllen
National Weather Service
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