KOCV weighs CPB funding cuts impact on local public media
Odessa College station KOCV awaits effects of proposed CPB cuts in House and Senate funding bills 275 million next year 260 million in 1997. Tracy Taylor notes Clinton may veto if education funding tied to CPB. KOCV operates TV and NPR radio serving Ector Midland Crane Martin Andrews Ward counties with CPB grants covering about a third of TV budget and a smaller share for radio.
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Corporation For Public Broadcasting
Tracy Taylor
Kocv-Fm
House
Senate
Clinton
Taylor
KOCV
Odessa College
Ector
Midland
Crane
Martin
Andrews
Ward
Public Broadcasting
Newt Gingrich
CPB
Kocv-Tv
Mantle Faces Liver Cancer and Transplant Need
Mickey Mantle, famed Yankees star of the 1950s and 60s, is diagnosed with liver cancer and hepatitis C. Doctors say a liver transplant is necessary to save his life, potentially within days to four weeks, with a prognosis tied to long-term alcohol use and past surgeries. Mantle, 63, entered a Dallas hospital after abdominal pain and a bile duct obstruction, and doctors note the tumor cannot be safely removed.
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Dallas
Mickey Mantle
New York Yankees
Mantle
Robert Goldstein
Baylor University Medical Center
Goldstein
Whitey Ford
Billy Martin
Kent Hamilton
Former Governor Preston Smith to Speak at Odessa Reception
The Ector County Democratic Women's Group honors former Texas Gov. Preston Smith for his role in establishing UTPB and the Odessa branch of Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. The free event at 7 p.m. in the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center foyer features a speech at 8 p.m. by Smith.
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Ector County
Democratic Women’s Group
Texas
Preston Smith
University of Texas of the
UTPB
Odessa
Texas Tech Health Sciences Center
West
Lubbock
Governor’s
Smith
GOP plan to shrink DOE cabinet status within six months
House Republicans unveiled a plan to abolish the Department of Energy within three years by moving elements to Defense and Interior, selling functions, and forming a seven member commission to decide the fate of its 30 laboratories. Rep. Todd Tiahrt said support exists for elimination in principle, with local concerns to protect.
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Defense and Interior Departments
Todd Tiahrt
Kansas
House
Senate Budget Committee
Pete Domenici
New Mexico
Energy Department
Tiahrt
Domenici
Energy Programs Resolution Agency
Clinton backs immigration panel plan as families prioritized
President Clinton endorsed a nine member commission's proposal to reduce legal immigration and give priority entry to spouses and children of legal residents. The plan would lower annual intake from 675000 to about 550000 and restrict other family visa eligibility, drawing mixed reactions on Capitol Hill.
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Washington
United States
Clinton
Commission On Immigration Reform
Congress
Capitol Hill
Lamar Smith
Texas
House
Commission
Barbara Jordan
U.S
Consis
Tucker and associate indicted in Whitewater probe
Governor Jim Guy Tucker and William J. Marks, a Florida cable venture partner, were indicted on charges of obtaining SBA loans under false pretenses and conspiring to conceal a cable venture’s value from the IRS. Also charged were John H. Haley and related conspiracies. The indictment, announced by Kenneth Starr, ties to Whitewater inquiries but not Clinton.
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Jim Guy Tucker
Whitewater Grand Jury
Small Business Administration
Tucker
Whitewater
Clinton
Arkansas
George Collins
IRS
Kenneth Starr
Savings and
Madisonet
Whitewater Venture
Starr
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Edward M. Kennedy
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