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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1990
Page
4
A brief community note highlighting efforts to improve living, working, and recreation in the Permian Basin. Local groups pledge to start with personal responsibility and contribute to a safer, more vibrant region.
The piece argues that collapsing socialism frees Stasi and KGB files, prompting questions about POWs in Vietnam, the 1981 Pope assassination plot, and East German complicity in Western terrorism. It suggests investigators question East German officials, Bulgarian secret police, and Vietnam-era defectors to locate missing American POWs and map Soviet knowledge.
Mike Royko notes in a Chicago Tribune column that oddball public flingers like the Manhattan Cartman, Toe Nail Man, and El Platform Flasher intrigued readers in New York and beyond. He compares them to fictional figures, mocks the motive question, and recalls similar past curiosities from Chicago.
Sandy Grady contrasts Mandela and Marion Barry as they electrify Washington then sour, Mandela praised for unity and courage while Barry faces an FBI tape showing drug use, leading to a city divided by heroic reception and troubling scandal.
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