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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1998
Page
1
Youth leaders organized Friday activities ahead of the Third Annual Citywide Junior High Drug and Violence Conference. The event aims to address youth substance use and violence with planners coordinating sessions and speakers.
In Memphis AP reports a King family ally urges a medical furlough for James Earl Ray as he lies near death after a coma. Ray, 70, serving a 99 year term for King’s 1968 assassination, seeks release to spend final months with family. state law allows furloughs for those in imminent peril of death.
Ector County Coliseum will host a week long gathering of more than 300 motor homes and travel trailers from March 23 to March 28. The event, tied to the Wally Byam Caravan Club International, celebrates Airstream vehicles and travel culture with regional chapters across the United States.
In San Nicolas, Argentina, 5-year-old Cristian Quiroz died after 33 hours trapped in an abandoned 59-foot well. Rescue efforts, televised nationwide, showed a rescuer creating a tunnel to reach him. autopsy to confirm cause, likely asphyxiation.
Deadly tornadoes struck the Southeast Friday tearing apart homes schools and a mobile home being hurled aloft. Georgia reports 11 dead 80 injured and North Carolina 2 dead 19 injured. The Georgia storm crossed about 50 miles north of Atlanta near North Hall High School with mass destruction noted by Sheriff Robert Vass.
President Clinton's lawyer Robert Bennett filed a 200-page brief in Little Rock arguing Paula Jones has no viable case and key witnesses lack credibility. He said the Arkansas trooper's accusations and Kathleen Willey's claim are irrelevant and sought dismissal before trial in late May. Bennett brushed off Jones' filings as media garbage.
Washington AP reports a clash between oil refiners and auto manufacturers over sulfur in gasoline as emission rules tighten. Oil firms offer limited cuts in 22 eastern states to curb costs, while automakers demand sharper reductions nationwide to protect pollution controls, risking higher gasoline prices.
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