Cancer patient Brandy diagnosed with leukemia after bone marrow test
Brandy Baker learns she has leukemia after doctors misdiagnosed arthritis. Her 15 year old half-brother Corey Little plans to donate marrow from both hips, while Brandy faces a lengthy Dallas transplant stay and costly care.
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Odessa
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Corey Little
Shane
Corey
Odessa High School
Dr. Fay
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas
Ector County
Jan Fisher
Ashley
Fay
Oil tax sparks mixed views from Gantner and groups
Gantner calls the tax a double edged sword that could stabilize oil prices and aid the Permian Basin while clashing with laissez faire beliefs. Large oil firms and consumer groups oppose, arguing the proposal would lift gasoline prices by 12 to 36 cents per gallon, depending on pass through and market conditions. Ed Rothschild of the Citizen-Labor Energy Coalition warns the full 36 cent rise could reach consumers.
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Permian
Ed Rothschild
Citizen-Labor Energy Coalition
American Petroleum Institute
API
Charles DiBona
U.S
United States
Oil import tax faces mixed industry backing and criticism
API president warns a 12 cent gas price rise would hurt energy dependent sectors, while Permian Basin Petroleum Association backs a supplemental aid package. Perry cites improved fuel efficiency as softening impact, and lawmakers push import fees as part of a broader deficit plan.
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DiBona
Congressional
Ed Thompson
Permian Basin Petroleum Association
Thompson
Perry
David Boren
D-Okla
Madrid ambush kills anti-terrorist admiral
In Madrid a Basque separatist gunman fatally wounded a top anti-terrorist expert, Escrigas Estrada, as his official car was blocked. His driver, Francisco Maranon Garcia, 57, was injured and listed in critical condition after more than 30 bullets were fired. Police tied the attack to the Basque separatist group ETA.
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Francisco Maranon Garcia
Marzo
Escrngas Estrada
Defense Ministry
Lawmakers eye vacation as Congress rushes for August break
Congress moves toward an August recess amid a crowded calendar of defense, Farm Belt, and foreign aid bills. Senate leader Dole aims to bring a farm bill to the floor this week while final passage looms on several authorization and appropriation measures. Deficit talks stall with no sign of a budget breakthrough from Reagan or House Speaker O'Neill on the $338 billion deficit package raising taxes and delaying Social Security benefits.
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Congress
Senate
Robert Dole
Kansas
Reagan
House
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Smugglers Shift Cocaine Flows Toward Southeast States
Drug figures show a shift from New York and the North Central and South Central regions to Texas and Florida as cocaine smuggling concentrates in the Southeast. Last year 81 250 pounds entered the region with a projected 25 percent rise to 101 400 pounds this year amid cautious notes that progress in the war on drugs is uneven.
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New York
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South Central
Florida
Southeast
Southeast cocaine influx dominates 1984 85 projections
Sen Lawton Chiles cites Florida figures as the Southeast bears 65 percent of the 1984 cocaine influx with an expected 78 percent share in 1985. Customs Service projects shifts in Texas smuggling from air to land and boat routes, while Florida and the Southeast remain about 50 50 between land and sea.
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Florida
Southeast
Lawton Chiles
D-Fla
Southwest
Customs Service
Texas
Odessa lenders join state affordable housing program
Phillips said Investors is the only Odessa lender to receive funding, with two Midland lenders also participating. The housing agency, created in 1979, finances loans via tax exempt bonds for low and moderate income families. Buyers must not have owned a home in the past three years and income limits were set at 33,000 for individuals or 42,000 combined. By 9 30 a m today 20 families had been processed and about 700000 remained.
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Phillips
Odessa
Midland
Midland Branch
Mortgage and Trust Residential Mortgage Corp
Weather improves with sunny, hot conditions for Permian Basin
The National Weather Service at Midland reports clear tonight with lows in the low 70s and southerly winds 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday will be sunny with highs near 100 and light south winds. Wide Texas sun and scattered Panhandle storms fade, as a West Central Texas ridge limits rainfall and temperatures reach the 90s to 105 across the state.
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Colorado
West Texas
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Dumas
Vega
Amarillo
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