Bitter toll of drunken driving cases fuels calls for harsher laws
Odessan families recount tragedies from alcohol related crashes amid judge and D.A. reluctance to impose stiffer penalties. City officials and victims’ relatives urge mandatory sentencing as DPS and police report dozens of DWI arrests, while legislators study tighter laws in response to rising highway deaths. Local figures name the need for accountability over plea deals and lenient manslaughter outcomes.
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Mike Atkins
Odessa
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Seabolt
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Bill Clements
Summit Ends with Currency Stabilization Plan at Versailles
Leaders including Reagan and Mitterrand met at a flower-decked Versailles salon to agree on curbing currency exchange fluctuations that disrupt growth. The first three hour session sought to reassure Britain France West Germany Italy Canada and Japan that high U.S. interest rates would ease, signaling progress toward monetary discussions' end.
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Reagan
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West Germany
Italy
Canada
Japan
U.S
Reagan predicts budget progress and deficit cut plans
The article notes Treasury Secretary Regan and the president project a three year path to deficits reduction with a balanced budget in sight. West European fear of high rates fuels recession worries as deficits remain a global concern. In Paris, protests against American nuclear policy draw under 3,000 leftists and pacifists as police disperse rock throwers with tear gas. A bomb at IMF offices causes windows to shatter without injuries. Mitterrand envisions a third industrial revolution through high tech research cooperation to employ millions.
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Donald T. Regan
Mitterrand
Efforts Grow To Curb Drunk Driving Nationally And In Texas
Advocates push tougher penalties as public awareness rises about DWI. Bobby Duffield of the Texas Commission on Alcoholism notes a national trend toward stricter laws, with MADD lobbying in Washington and state capitals. The Governor's Task Force on Traffic Safety plans recommendations to raise Texas legal intoxication limits from 19 to 21.
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Texas Commission On Alcoholism
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
MADD
Washington
Duffield
Bill Clements
Texas
Statewide open container law eyed with tougher DWI penalties
A legislative task force proposals include open container rules, admissibility of breath test refusals, and mandatory DWI education for first offenders on probation. Duffield notes focus on closing loopholes and raising penalties for first and second offenses, with a three tier system culminating in third degree felonies.
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Duffield
Insurance giant and DES makers clash in court
Hartford based Aetna Life & Casualty Co. seeks to cap its liability as insurer of nine DES manufacturers in a federal case over potential damages to thousands suing over health problems linked to diethylstilbestrol. Daughters of treated women allege vaginal cancer and other harms.
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Hartford, Conn
Aetna Life & Casualty Co
Weather update with heat across Texas and Borger tornado
A weak stationary front brought fog to South Texas while most of the state remained warm with highs from the mid 80s to over 100 degrees in hot valleys. Borger saw four injured and structural damage from a tornado at a Phillips Petroleum hydrogen sulfide plant, though the tornado caused no additional injuries. Forecasts from Midland Regional Airport predict partly cloudy, warm conditions with highs in the mid 90s and nights in the mid 60s. Precipitation remained trace in the last 24 hours and for June with a year to date 4.83.
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Odessa
South Texas
Panhandle
Big Bend
Phillips Petroleum Co
Borger
National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Court of Appeals upholds two survivors' crash awards
In Winston-Salem, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a 2-1 vote on Friday sustained multimillion-dollar jury awards to two survivors of the 1974 Eastern Airlines jet crash that killed 72. The ruling affirms the jury’s verdict and total damages.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
Court of Appeals
Eastern Airlines
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Odessa American Subscription Rates and Delivery Notice
The Odessa American lists daily and Sunday publication details with mail subscription options and prices. It provides contact points for delivery problems and specifies mailing addresses and post office information.
Forces The raiders and their shadowy war in distant lands
Forces the raiders are specialists in sabotage and assassination having served in Northern Ireland Aden Borneo Malaysia and Persian Gulf oil states. Patrick Bishop a British correspondent with the marines on the hills overlooking Stanley encountered a squad of SAS men with faces smeared black appearing from the mist this week.
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Ireland
Aden
Borneo
Malaysia
Persian Gulf
Patrick Bishop
Stanley
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SAS In Falklands Raid Chronicle Reveals Patrol Tactics
Dispatch reports Sam Peckinpah comments on Argentine resistance while SAS units, numbering around 200, operate covertly in the Falklands. Sources say SAS infiltrated weeks before landings, struck Goose Green airfield destroying Pucara planes, and pummeled Pebble Island with a helicopter raid.
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Bishop
SAS
Special Air Service Regiment
Falklands
Goose Green
Pebble Island
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