Bear Show Highlights Smart Bears at Permian Basin Fair
The Permian Basin Fair hosts The Bear Show focusing on the bears' intelligence and agility. In Throckmorton a 21 mile pipeline restored water after two months of drought relief efforts. A drug firm will fund Norplant users to obtain backup contraception due to variable batch effectiveness.
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MOTRAN Conference Friday on trade and transport ties
Local MOTRAN will meet Friday at the Holiday Inn Odessa North. The 10:30 a.m. session runs to 4 p.m. with lunch. Topics include NAFTA tourism and La Entrada al Pacifico. Speakers include Mexican representatives from Chihuahua and Sinaloa and TEX 21 on state funding for trade corridors.
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Odessa
Motran
Holiday Inn
E. Highway 80
Chihuahua
Sinaloa
Mexico
TEX 21
Vanity Fair Buzz Reaches Odessa Retailers
Odessa shoppers seek the October Vanity Fair featuring Gail Sheehy on George W. Bush with focus on Odessa Huntsman Polymers plant and Texas NRCC. Hastings and Albertson's report strong demand and expect copies by Friday while Wednesday coverage appeared in Odessa American.
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Vanity Fair
Odessa
Gail Sheehy
George W. Bush
Bush
Huntsman Polymers
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
Sheehy
Odessa American
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Steve Equinions
Albertson's
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Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton
Oilman argues Texas pipeline rules excessive regulation
Morris Burns of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association criticizes Texas Railroad Commission actions as overreacting to pipeline accidents in Carlsbad and Abilene. He says plastic pipes are not used for high pressure natural gas and opposes new costly regulations on plastics.
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Morris Burns
Permian Basin Petroleum Association
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Garland
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Carlsbad
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Skeletal remains found along South Dixie Boulevard
A brush clearing crew on a utility right of way along South Dixie Boulevard near I 20 found a man's skeletal remains at about 9 am Wednesday. Sheriff Sgt Carl Rogers and Medical Examiner investigator B J White said the body looked to have been there for several months, with the pelvic bone noted among the remains.
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South Dixie Boulevard
Interstate 20
Ector County
Carl Rogers
B.J. White
Ector County Medical Examiner
Ector County Sheriff's
Carl Roger
Ector County Medical Examiner's Office
Wen Ho Lee Freed After Govt Apology At Court
Wen Ho Lee, once branded a national security threat and held in solitary confinement for nine months, left the Albuquerque courthouse with an apology from the judge and supporters cheering. He pled guilty to mishandling nuclear secrets under a plea deal, receiving 278 days time served, while 58 of 59 counts were dropped.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Wen Ho Lee
Lee
Los Alamos
House sustains veto of tax cut for married couples
The House vote to sustain President Clinton's veto of the marriage penalty bill blocks a tax cut for 25 million dual income couples, 270 to 158, falling short of the two thirds to override. Republicans intend to revisit next year as Democrats and independents split, with focus shifting to broader tax priorities.
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Clinton
Dick Armey
Texas
Pecos County grand jury clears campaign workers
A Pecos County grand jury decided not to indict campaign workers accused of illegally pressuring elderly absentee voters in a hotly contested district attorney race. The probe centered on Steve Spurgin's campaign after he lost to Frank Brown in a third Democratic primary marred by racism and voter fraud claims. Brown will now hold the office.
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Pecos County
Maria
Steve Spurgin
Alpine
Frank Brown
Brown
Heather Browne
Attorney General's Office
Grand Jury
Browne
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