Learning disability stigma vanishing in Odessa era
In 1966 teachers like Lorraine Harrison began educating learning disabled students in Ector County. A sign on her classroom door labeled kids as brain damaged. Shane Robinson, a 12 year old Dowling Elementary student, joined an L D class in 1984 and improved from a second to a fourth grade reading level after part time instruction. Diagnosticians explain that perceptual and auditory processing issues underlie many cases, with dyslexia among the best known.
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Lorraine Harrison
Harrison
Ector County Independent
Odessa
Amarillo
Shane Robinson
Newell
Shane
Dowling
Lynne Schwake
Schwake
Abraham Lincoln
ECISD
Jayne Sedate
Donald Hembree
Shultz says no progress in talks with Ortega
Secretary of State George P. Shultz met Ortega for about an hour in Montevideo and said no major progress occurred toward resolving differences. He urged returning to the Contadora process as the focal point of negotiations, while Ortega pressed for resumed talks in Manzanillo, Mexico and claimed U S conditions blocked a restart.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
George P. Shultz
Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega
Shultz
Ortega
Manzanillo
Mexico
United States
Climate on Nicaragua unchanged in Congress
President Reagan shows no progress toward congressional approval of covert aid to the Nicaraguan contras as he campaigns to cast the Sandinistas as a communist threat. Negotiations among Sandinista officials, the United States, and regional allies resume, but lawmakers see no shift in U.S. political climate. Secretary Shultz warns that failing to provide 14 million dollars could push Nicaragua toward endless instability.
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Washington
Reagan
United States
Latin
George Shultz
Nicaragua
Mayors push budget plan to curb federal cuts nationwide
Nineteen Democratic mayors led by New York's Edward Koch urged a freeze on federal spending and 40 billion dollars in new corporate and energy taxes. They proposed a Washington march to oppose Reagan 1986 budget cuts blamed for harming urban programs, with two Republican mayors joining but opposing a military spending freeze.
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New York
Washington
Boston
Santa Fe
N.M
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Reagan
Edward I. Koch
Koch
Former bail bondsman opens cafe amid doubts about bonds
At Chef's Delight in Odessa owner Charlie Gee, once a bail bondsman and former Precinct Justice of the Peace, says he plans to curtail issuing bonds and focus on serving meals. He cites headaches and worry over clients returning to face justice, though he will renew his bail bond license.
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Gee
Kevin Bartley
Ector County
Sheriff's
Fifth St
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