Shuttle landing choices narrow to White Sands or Edwards
Crews fly near touchdown points at White Sands during abort once around planning. White Sands is the primary landing site for the abort mission, with Edwards favored for program reasons if weather or weight constraints bite. Paczynski notes $2 million spent on White Sands construction and training as “good insurance.”
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Robert Crippen
Columbia
White Sands
Ian- Northrup
Edwards
al Paczynski
NASA
Ken Senstad
Paczynski
Poles set four hour warning strike amid talks delay
Solidarity announced a four hour warning strike for Friday after the government postponed crisis talks. Panicky shoppers crowded Warsaw stores as authorities warned of a possible escalation if union demands for dismissals of police officials remain unmet.
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Poland
Solidarity
Independent Labor Federation
Rakowski
Radio Warsaw
Labor Federation
Walesa
Bydgoszcz
Winds Howl With Warmer Temps and Friday High Wind Warning
National Weather Service Midland reports a high wind warning for Friday with gusts to 40 mph and a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, warmer today through Friday with low 80s highs, tonight's low near 50, and weekend cooling trends across West Texas including the Big Bend.
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National Weather Service
Midland
Permian Basin
Weather Service
Big Bend
Texas
Midland Regional
Texas lawmakers weigh interest rate ceilings amid relief debate
Salinas calls for relief for the needy not a windfall for the greedy as Rep. Messer backs a bill to cap loan rates. The proposal would set a three layer ceiling on most loans with an 18 percent cap when six month T bills are 9 percent or lower, higher otherwise. Rep Peveto notes high risk borrowers face 30 percent rates, mainly drug and marijuana smugglers.
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Salinas
Bill Messer
D-Belton
Wayne Peveto
Dorango
U.S. Treasury
Texas 1A loan would float to 24 percent cap if bill passes
The proposed rule ties a Texas 1A interest rate to twice the T-bill rate, capped at 24 percent. With the T-bill near 12 percent, lenders could charge 24 percent under the draft. Lawmakers debated, Rep. Craig Washington arguing against eliminating variable rate loans.
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Texas
Craig Washington
Dhouston
Messer
Lawmakers clash over age limits and enforcement
Senators rejected a House change on enforcing an underage drinking provision. A conference compromise shielded sellers if a buyer looked 19 or older, while critics warned the measure would be unenforceable and miss the goal of reducing school drunkenness. Representatives argued raising the drinking age could ease peer pressure for seniors.
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Henry Allee
Houston
Ronald Coleman
D-E Paso
Guerrilla attack on U.S. Embassy in San Salvador
Three guerrilla squads staged a rocket grenade assault on the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador causing extensive damage but no casualties. The strike, the third this month and the largest, drew fire from Marine guards and Salvadoran troops as attackers fled after lobbing a grenade into a nearby car. Officials linked to leftist groups claimed responsibility but could not confirm.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
U.S
Popular Liberation Forces
Frank Chapin
United States
Congress
Jose Napoleon Duarte
Ines
New York declares fiscal crisis over after bond sale
New York City's chief financial officer says the fiscal crisis is officially over at a public sale of 75 million in long term municipal bonds. Underwriter quotes investment grade. City faces ongoing problems but will handle them.
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New York
New York City
Harrison J. Goldin
Goldin
T shirts commemorate death sentence in California slayings
In Woodland off-duty Yolo County sheriff's deputies sell 300 powder-blue T shirts emblazoned with a hangman's noose and the words Adios Louie to honor the death sentence for the killer of two California Highway Patrol officers. Proceeds go to a memorial fund.
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Woodland
Calif
Louie
Yolo County
Luis V. Rodriguez
Sacramento
Steve Stanton
Spy scandal stirs ghosts of British traitors network
London reports say former counter espionage head Sir Roger Hollis was suspected of being a Soviet agent. The piece surveys a lineage of Cambridge and Oxford recruits from the 1930s including Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Kim Philby, detailing recruitment, defections, and later revelations.
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Oxford
Anthony Blunt
Margaret Thatcher
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Soviet Union
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Kremlin
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Cahan
MI-5
Guy Burgess
Donald Maclean
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Burgess
Harold “Kim” Philby
MI-6
U.S
Philby
Tom Driberg
Labor Party
Chapman Pincher
Hollis
Driberg
KGB
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Straight
England
Royal Art Collection
New Deal
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Mr. Green
Cambridge University
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