Coast Guard readies crews as Mex oil slick hits Padre Island
Coast Guard cleanup teams prepare after a Mexican oil slick reaches Padre Island. Reporter Greg Thompson notes the spill's spread along the coast and officials’ plans to contain and monitor contamination. The incident underscores cross border environmental risks and coastal protection efforts.
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Padre Island
Ixtoco
Gulf of Mexico
Tampico
Mexico
Coast Guard
Galveston
Robinson
White House meeting over food price fears and profits
President Carter pressed 16 food industry leaders including major supermarket executives to justify rising retail prices while farm costs fall. Alfred Kahn urged industry to recheck fair share for consumers, but officials claimed no profiteering and attributed price trends to inflation and time lags.
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Alfred Kahn
Carter Sum
White House
Carter
Robert O. Aders
Food Marketing Institute
Aders
Institute
Council On
Textbook critic contests health class sex topics in Texas hearings
Nor ma Gabler, veteran textbook critic, questions placing breast cancer self exam topics in a mixed health science class for ninth graders She suggests the discussion belong in girls physical education and raises concerns about male teachers The review began four days of hearings on 44 textbooks totaling 6.8 million dollars proposed for 1980-81 adoption by the Texas State Textbook Committee.
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Austin
Texas
Norma Gabler
Davis trial continues as judge mimics dead man in FBI sting
Fort Worth Texas judge Joe Eidson described posing in a ketchup stained shirt in a car trunk for an FBI sting that led to Cullen Davis's murder for hire case. Prosecutors allege Davis sought a hit on Eidson and others to influence divorce rulings while Davis says Eidson was a pawn in the operation.
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Mike Cochran
Associated Press
Fort Worth
Texas
FBI
Cullen Davis
Joe Eidson
Davis
David McCrory
Eidson
Priscilla
Jack Strickland
Strickland
McCrory
Justices question misreading of public access ruling
Dallas AP Justice Powell and Chief Justice Burger warned that the Gannett vs DePasquale decision on opening courtrooms may be misunderstood. They urged judges to seek alternatives before closing pretrial hearings and noted state courts have already cited the ruling to justify closed proceedings.
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Richard Carelli
Associated Press
Dallas
Supreme Court
High Court
Lewis F. Powell Jr
American Bar Association
Warren E
Powell
Burger
Gannett News Organization
Rochester, N.Y
Fendant
Floyd Abrams
New York
Gannett
Pecos Man Jailed as Probation Revoked in Misconduct Case
Judge Lawrence Fuller in the 143rd District Court revoked Albino Levario Tarango’s probation and sentenced him to two years in the Texas Department of Corrections for criminal mischief a July 26 1978 conviction. Tarango’s address was listed as 902 S Orange Pecos.
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Lawrence Fuller
Judicial District
Pecos
Albino
Levario Tarango
S. Orange
Texas Department of Corrections
Tarango
Walter Holcombe
Reeves County
Carl Heinrich Juergen Toomey
Fuller
Toomey
Gerald Franks
S. Elliott
Tacoma
Wash
Weather outlook for Pecos area and West Texas
Weathershowers and clouds expected across Pecos and surrounding areas through tomorrow with scattered heavy showers. Monday's high reached 97 and the low 67 this morning with .84 inches of rain yesterday. Yearly rainfall totals reach 7.44 inches, while West Texas foresees continued cloudiness and scattered storms through Wednesday, cooler in Panhandle, highs from the 70s to 90s, and cooler nights in the 60s to 70s.
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NOAA
Laguna Madre
John Robinson
Pecos
West Texas
Panhandle
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Washington
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Jerome
Pecos High School
Eddy St
Jayne Robinson
State Board of Education
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