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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1998
Page
1
NBCs long running comedy Seinfeld ends with a 7 45 p m broadcast. Odessans can watch a secret episode at Zucchis and Gattiland while Midland residents can view it at Cactus Moon. A highlights reel of past episodes opens the farewell event.
University of Texas regents unanimously voted to appeal the Hopwood decision arguing Texas policies are at odds with the rest of the nation and urging a uniform law. Regents Chairman Donald Evans said Monday is the deadline to file the appeal and that the issue should be settled by the Supreme Court.
The EPA licenses the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad after 24 years of planning, paving the way for truck shipments of nuclear waste next month. Critics warn of court fights while officials defend safety and long term containment in salt beds stable for over 220 million years.
Nimitz Junior High parents and teachers vote to require uniforms and send the standard attire proposal to the Ector County ISD Board of Trustees. More than 97 percent of 516 ballots favored the plan while 22 percent oppose. The vote covered about 1,050 eligible voters including seventh and eighth graders and many incoming sixth graders.
In Lafayette Indiana on a slow freight train the conductor Robert Mohr saw a nineteen month old girl lying on the tracks ahead. He ran to the locomotive grille and kicked her to safety saying adrenaline drove the action. The child Emily Marshall suffered only a cut.
In New Delhi India defied international protests and detonated two more underground nuclear devices as part of a week of five tests. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee framed them as essential for India’s security amid fears of a regional arms race and a nuclear world.
Clinton calls for immediate sanctions urging action from 30 borders and others, urging a united effort to halt a new nuclear arms race. References to Vajpayee and India are noted with on page 2A coverage in Germany and economic measures announced.
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