Deadly Ebola outbreak tightens controls in Zaire
In Kinshasa and Kikwit authorities impose travel limits and stay-at-home advisories as the Ebola crisis spreads. Schools and clinics close, flights canceled, and work halted in the 600,000 population city with dozens dead. A possible second outbreak is probed near Musango while a nurse tied to the Kikwit hospital dies. Doctors Without Borders assists and the hospital is cleared of nonessential staff and patients.
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Kinshasa
Zaire
Kikwit
Musango
Doctors Without Borders
Senate OKs sweeping Texas smoke ban bill
The Texas Senate approved a measure to set statewide smoking limits in work places and public venues and bar cities from enacting stricter local rules. It would apply to 60 percent nonsmoking restaurant space, require ventilation, and keep sections at least six feet apart, with broad statewide reach across counties and cities.
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Austin
Texas Senate
Public
Ken Armbrister
Victoria
Mike Moncrief
D-Fort Worth
Moncrief
Armbrister
Arlington
Carrollton
Plano
Sulphur Springs
Wichita Falls
Barbara Jordan visits Jordan Elementary School in Odessa
Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan returns to her namesake school Odessa to celebrate the first sixth grade graduation. Students PTA representatives and teachers honor her with flowers a book of essays a quilt and a Barbara Jordan Reader pamphlet. Jordan expresses joy and praises school staff.
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Barbara Jordan
Bilingual Department
Jordan
Jordan Elementary
North Odessa
PTA
Republicans win budget panel vote on GOP deficit plan
Senate Republicans win a 12 10 committee tally to approve a balanced budget framework that relies on Medicare and Medicaid savings and parallels a House panel plan. Democrats oppose firmly as White House criticism targets cuts in Head Start education and volunteer programs.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Clinton
United States
Tom Daschle
South Dakota
FBI affidavit links Nichols to bombing case
An FBI affidavit tied Timothy Nichols to the Oklahoma City bombing through a cache of bomb making materials found in Kansas storage sheds and a letter Nichols wrote to McVeigh urging action. The 10 page document notes detonator cords ammonium nitrate and a diesel fuel meter and states Nichols faces potential death penalty if convict. Nichols appeared in a makeshift court in El Reno as McVeigh remains jailed in Oklahoma City since his arrest.
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Oklahoma City
Timothy McVeigh
Terry Nichols
Federal
Kansas
FBI
Nichols
McVeigh
U.S
Patrick Ryan
Herington
Kan
Ronald Howland
el Reno
Stockman accuses Clinton of staging Waco raid for gun ban
Rep. Steve Stockman claims the 1993 Waco Branch Davidians raid was staged by the Clinton administration to create support for an assault weapons ban. He writes in Guns & Ammo that BATF and officials used the incident to push gun-control measures. White House and ATF declined to comment. Stockman says he did not imply intent to cause deaths.
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Washington
Steve Stockman
Clinton
Branch Davidians
Waco
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
BATF
Friendswood
Guns & Ammo Magazine
Stockman
Jack Brooks
Dbeaumont
Brooks
White House
Ginny Terzano
Justice Department
ATF
John Killerin
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the Odessa American
Larry Beckner
GOP
Sen
Pete V. Domenici
R-N.m
Senate Budget Committee
Pete Domenici
Capitol Hill
Paul Coverdell
R-Ga
Connie Mack
R-Fla
Phil Gramm
Texas
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