Recession grips Texas with job cuts and oil slowdown
Texas feels the national downturn as 3,200 North Texas electronic components workers lose jobs. Houston and Dallas see layoffs at airlines, energy firms, oil refining, and Texas Instruments with 1,700 cuts city and state wide. Officials warn skilled workers fare better than unskilled in a slack market.
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Dallas
Detroit
Texas
Akron
Kokomo
Houston
Bill Clements
Electronic Components Company
I.V. Ferguson
Texas Employment Commission
San Antonio
Robert H. Chitwood
National Petroleum Refiners Association
U.S
Sam. R. Bright Jr
Rauscher Pierce
United States
Gulf Coast
Geosource Inc
United States Steel Corp
Baytown
Texas Instruments Inc
Dallas Electronics
Ferguson
Four year push lacks grass roots support at UTPB
News Analysis discusses UT Permian Basin four year status facing weak student activism due to part time enrollment and two year attendance. Faculty caution and community efforts by Friends of UTPB seek broader backing as supporters lobby for university ranking while wheels of democracy turn slowly.
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Elizabeth Simpson
University of Texas
Permian Basin
UTPB
Odessa
Garry Morris
Carole Rey
James Colwell
V.R. Cardozier
UTPR
Cardozier
Aubrey Barlow
Friends of
Friends of Utpb
Berlin Crisis 1959 Nuclear Standoff Revealed in Senate Testimony
Senate Foreign Relations transcripts disclose that the Eisenhower administration was prepared to hold Berlin at all costs, potentially using nuclear weapons. Christian Herter stated the allies faced the ultimate threat, while Livingstone Merchant declined to confirm an atomic response to Soviet attacks on Berlin convoys. The 1958 1959 crisis prompted fears of general war as Western powers tried to defend Berlin amid East German pressure.
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Washington
Berlin
Eisenhower
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Christian Herter
Livingstone
Merchant
United States
U.S
Soviet Union
East Germany
Paris
Geneva
Nathan F. Twining
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Secretary of
Herter
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Europe
Reagan Opposes OECD Global Environment Report
Washington AP Reagan administration seeks to block OECD environmental committee report, arguing some officials disagree with its view. Despite the request the experts report likely to be published, drawing on prior gloom and doom assessments like Global 2000.
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Reagan
Report
Washington
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
Julian Simon
University of Illinois
Council On Environmental Quality
White Sands Mystic Landmarks and a Shuttle Landing
The White Sands Missile Range near Alamogordo awaits a shuttle landing as the Columbia is set to touch down on Northrup Strip. The visit ties to local lore of Victorio Peak and tales of hidden treasure linked to Victorio and the Lost Padre's Mine, drawing on decades of treasure-hunting legend.
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Robert Locke
White Sands Missile Range
N.M
Desert
Connecticut
Rhode Island
White Sands
Northrup Strip
Tri-Cities
Alamogordo
Las Cruces
el Paso
Texas
NASA
San Andres Mountains
Victorio Peak
Victorio
New and
Old Mexico
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Goren
Big Spring
Jimmy Hale
AP Laserpnote
Space Shuttle
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