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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1981
Page
1
Three burn victims from Tuesday’s Phillips Petroleum Co. plant explosion in Goldsmith were airlifted Wednesday to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Trapped between two fires, a second pipeline blast burst into a wall of flame.
In Washington a three hour Democratic House caucus pressed Rep Kent Hance and Sen Phil Gramm over their support for Reagan's tax and budget bills. Hance defended his stance while Gramm dismissed liberal criticism as politics. House leaders warned future loyalty could affect committee assignments.
Conservatives gained a cloture win ending a summer filibuster and aim for final Senate approval next month of a broad rollback of court ordered busing in desegregation. Liberals vow further maneuvers with the anti busing measure likely to reappear in October as Weicker plans to delay again.
In San Luis Obispo a crackdown by deputies used batons to clear a blockade at the Diablo Canyon plant. Over 800 protesters were arrested as organizers vowed to continue the siege, with more arrests and arraignments planned for trespassing and failure to disperse. Activists in wetsuits breached a Coast Guard safety zone, launching motorized rafts along the coast before six were arrested at Avila Beach.
A rising cohort of conservative economists backs a return to a national gold standard to curb inflation and high interest rates. The Gold Commission will weigh options from full to partial backing, with critics warning of recessionary risks, pricing problems, and geopolitical gold supply shocks from South Africa and the Soviet Union.
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