Odessan resident fights RRC over tainted water battle
Odessa resident Jim Batte leads a long fight against Kerr McGee and the Texas Railroad Commission after his tap water turned salty from saltwater intrusion linked to oilfield production. The suit stalled by cost, spurring a push for statewide water safeguards and better landowner-company cooperation. The case, along with multiple lawsuits since 1961, shaped Batte’s plan to present evidence at a 1982 Railroad Commission hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Simpson
Ector County
Texas Railroad Commission
Jim Batte
Batte
Battes
Department of Water Resources
Kerr-McGee
Ector County District Court
Odessa
Butte
46Th
48Th Streets
Gist Place
Webb Avenue
Railroad Commission
Kerr- McGee
Polish internees may go free amid Solidarity turmoil
General Jaruzelski pledged to release a large number of interned unionists and ease martial law measures to maintain social peace. President Reagan condemned Poland’s outlawing of Solidarity and moved to suspend most favored nation trading status, warning tariffs will rise and urging U.S. action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Warsaw
Poland
Solidarity
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Reagan
Reagan calls Polish leaders bums after Solidarity ban
President Reagan branding the Polish leadership a bunch of no good lousy bums for banning Solidarity, moves to suspend Poland's most favored nation tariff status to curb exports to the United States. Officials estimate potential cuts of up to 100 million dollars in Polish shipments, mainly textiles, frozen fish, and canned ham, after consultations with Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Santa Barbara
Calif
Reagan
Solidarity
Poland
United States
U.S
Congress
Santa Ynez Mountains
Washington
Inmate Burnett Seeks Death Over Life on Death Row
Linda Mae Burnett, 34, on Texas Death Row for the 1978 kidnapping and killing of 3 year old Jason Blair Phillips, asks a Beaumont judge to halt appeals and order execution, arguing it is cruel to wait on court review. Her lawyer says the request is not about guilt but timing and law. Ovide Joe Dugas, her boyfriend, is also on Death Row.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaumont
Linda Mae Burnett
Texas
Joseph C
Lum
Hawthorn
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Gist
District Attorney’s Office
Burnett
Jason Blair Phillips
Woodward
Okla
Ovide Joe Dugas
Mrs. Burnett
Quasar found at edge of universe
AP reports the discovery of PKS 2000-330, the most distant quasar yet, about 12 billion light years away. Found by a multinational team using Parkes and JPL Deep Space Network facilities, it sheds light on the early universe as light from 12 billion years ago reaches Earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Locke
Pasadena
Calif
Mike Klein
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Earth
Klein
Parkes
Australia
JPL
Deep Space Network
Tid
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America
Jaruzelski
Communist Party
Sane
By James Gerstenzang
Lech Walesa
Gdansk
Dugas
Binbilla
New South Wales
Samuel Gulkis
David Jauncey
Michael Batty
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
Bruce Peterson
Australian National University
Anne Savage
The
Royal Observatory
Edinburgh
Scotland
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