Public reaction in Odessa to Reagan security incident
Odessans like Felix Martinez Stan Calkins Bankowsky and White comment on presidential crowds and security after John Hinckley’s arrest. They argue for stronger protection while noting Reagan’s habit of mingling with the public and the risk of assassination remains a danger.
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Felix Martinez
W. Sherwood
Secret Service
Martinez
Stan Calkins
Imperial Hotel
Reagan
Calkins
Bankowsky
Hinckley
Denver
Jimmy Carter
White
Mike Panzich
Bruce Hotel
Hinckley Arrest Ties to Nashville Visit and Gun Purchase
FBI said Hinckley was arrested by airport police in Nashville as President Carter visited the city. Records show Hinckley bought weapons with a Lubbock address. Authorities seized sale records hours after Reagan was shot. Family statements described psychiatric treatment, with parents expressing heartbreak and defending their son.
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Nashville
Tenn
FBI
Carter
Hinckley
Reagan
Memphis
Isaac Goldstein
Rocky
Dallas
Lubbock
Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Brent Morris
G.I. Joe's
Denver
Jim Robinson
Evergreen
Colo
Robinson
J.W
Jack” Hinckley
Vanderbilt Energy Corp
Africa
World Vision
Stan Mooneyham
Weather outlook fair and warm through midweek in Texas
Forecasters expect fair and mild tonight with a warming trend to the low 80s by Wednesday. Northwesterly winds behind a Pacific cold front will cool Northwest Texas, while Amarillo reports gusts to 44 mph. Precipitation chances are limited to Southeast Texas with scattered thundershowers.
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Texas
National Weather Service
Midland Regional
Amarillo
Panhandle
Atlanta area adds 21st unsolved child death case
Authorities probe a partly decomposed black boy found in the Chattahoochee River as the 21st unsolved child death in Fulton County. Autopsy planned. Victim estimated 10 to 20, age uncertain, body in river days. Disappearances linked to a special task force include Darren Glass and Joseph Bell. Timothy Hill remains possible but not yet assigned.
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Atlanta
Fulton County
Chattahoochee River
Clinton Chafin
Denny Hendrix
Robert Stivers
Chafin
Special Police
Darren Glass
Joseph Bell
Timothy Hill
Longest living after double heart and lung transplant record attempt
Mary Gohlke of Mesa Arizona seeks to set a record for living longest after a heart and lung transplant performed March 9 at Stanford University Medical Center. The 45 year old woman, the fourth such transplant recipient, initially showed organ rejection but recovered and began breathing on her own two days later.
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Stanford
Calif
Mary Gohlke
Mesa, Ariz
Stanford University Medical Center
Tugboat deckhand sues National Airlines over 1978 Pensacola crash
Bill Kinney of Gulf Shores Alabama, praised for aiding passengers after the Boeing 727 crash into Pensacola Bay in May 1978, files a 1 million lawsuit against National Airlines alleging lung injury from fumes and fluids at the crash site. The suit was filed in Escambia County Circuit Court.
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Pensacola
Fla
Bill Kinney
Gulf Shores
Ala
Richard Warfield
National Airlines
Miami
Pan American World Airways
Escambia County
Bay
Pensacola Regional
Silent Majority Drives UMW Vote On Coal Strike End
The United Mine Workers face a pivotal vote as 160,000 coal miners decide whether to accept a contract proposal ending a five day strike. President Sam Church has met mixed receptions in coalfields while predicting approval, with dissidents dismissed as a vocal minority. District 19 leader Joe Phipps predicts ratification, citing a silent majority.
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Associated Press
One Mine
UMW
Sam Church
Kentucky
Joe Phipps
Reagan economic program at forefront Keynesian debate
The piece surveys the Reagan administration’s challenge to Keynesian economics, contrasting traditional demand management with supply side ideas. It traces how Keynes has shaped U.S. policy since FDR, notes past deficits and unemployment, and previews a high stakes fiscal policy clash as Reagan pursues tax cuts and spending restraint.
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Glenn Ritt
Associated Press
Washington
Franklin Roosevelt
FDR
John Maynard Keynes
Ronald Reagan
Congress
Roosevelt
Keynes
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
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