Connally urges tough trade stance and foreign policy
Former Texas governor John Connally told a Lincoln Day crowd in Archbold Ohio that the US should restrict imports from Japan and the European Community until their farm trade barriers are lifted. He warned Japan over beef access and urged stronger measures against Soviet influence and Cuba backed forces while backing a balanced budget amendment and a B 1 bomber.
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Chuck Melvin
Associated Press
Archbold
Ohio
Texas
John B. Connally
U.S
Japan
Connally
Washington
Red Sea
Mediterranean
Russia
South Yemen
Angola
Ethiopia
East Coast Storm Brings Heavy Snow and Fatalities
Heavy snow and winds up to 30 mph swept the East Coast with near zero visibility and accumulations up to 16 inches. New York and New Jersey reports show rapid snowfall, airports closed, and transit halted. At least 13 weather related deaths across six states include six freezing deaths in the South and four in Pennsylvania.
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Associated Press
New York
Washington
New Jersey
National Weather Service
Cody Pfansteil
Washington Area Transit Authority
Dulles International
Pat Chitwood
Dulles
AFL-CIO Presses Carter Policy Shift Ahead of 1980
Miami Beach AP report shows AFL-CIO leaders warning they may withhold support for Carter if domestic policy does not change. Union officials cite wage price guidelines, social program cuts, and feared unemployment as key issues, while Meany’s leadership shapes growing disenchantment.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Afl-Cio
Carter
Labor Federation
Sheriff recovers tractor after theft from Fort Stockton firm
Reeves County Sheriff Raul Florez announced the recovery of a late model International truck tractor and flatbed trailer valued at 49000 dollars. The over the road equipment owned by H and M Fertilizer of Fort Stockton was found in a motel parking lot at Interstate 20 and U S 285 in Pecos last Friday morning after a reported theft. The sheriff said the equipment has been returned to the owners.
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Fort Stockton
Reeves County Sheriff's Department
Raul Florez
Interstate 20
U.S. 285
Pecos
H and M Fertilizer
Vote Called On Six Week Gulf Strike At Texas Refinery
Union officials ordered a vote at 2 p.m. on an agreement to end a six week strike at Gulf Oil Co. refinery in Port Arthur Texas sending about 3000 workers back to work. If ratified plans to resume normal hours could start as early as Tuesday with negotiations noting gains over personnel cuts.
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Port Arthur
Atomic Workers Union
Gulf
Jim Gatten
Austin Langley
Office Workers Union
Gulf Refinery
OCAW
Pecos area forecast stays sunny and warm into Tuesday
Weather outlook for Pecos and vicinity calls for sunny skies today with warmer highs. Tonight and Tuesday should be fair with a broad temperature rise from the mid 50s to mid 70s in the Big Bend valleys. Overnight lows stay mostly in the 30s.
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Pecos
Texas
Big Bend
Bentsen notes Mexico wary of US motives over oil
Senator Lloyd Bentsen told a Brownsville shrimpers group that the United States has long paid attention to Mexico, despite new oil finds. He described Mexican suspicions about President Carter's motives, but said the meeting in Mexico City with Portillo thawed into a cordial, productive exchange. Oil and gas could improve living standards in Mexico, though not overnight, and Portillo aims to avoid Venezuela like missteps.
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U.S
Connally
Carter
Ken Herman
Associated Press
Brownsville, Texas
Lloyd Bentsen
United States
Mexico
Mexico City
Bentsen
Kennedy
Johnson
Jose Lopez Portillo
Venezuela
Middle East
Texas marijuana dump opencase sweeps 120 mile cross Texas
Law and federal officers raided rough terrain from Cotulla to the coast in a wide search for 5000 pounds of Colombian marijuana dropped from a DC-4. Five men were arrested on federal conspiracy charges. two already jailed on trespassing. Authorities reported multiple aircraft, vehicles, and ground crews scouring McMullen Live Oak and Jim Wells counties.
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Cotulla
Texas
Phil Altman
Texas Department of Public Safety Narcotics Division
Altman
George West County
Corpus Christi
U.S
Duval County
McMullen
Live Oak
Jim Wells
Nueces County
DPS
Drug Enforcement Administration
Brett Kimberlin
Chris Columbus Shipley
Indianapolis
William Bowman
Dayton
Ohio
Luis Frank Sial
Edinburg
Nueces
Kimberlin
Bowman
Sial
Richard C. Curry
Nakomis
Fla
George Ralph Greene
Remington
Ind
Webb County
Laredo
Student Chamber of Commerce Meet Scheduled
A Student Chamber of Commerce meeting will be held tomorrow at 7 30 p m in the Chamber office 111 S Cedar coordinators Deanna Rushing and Fel ice Humphris invite all interested ninth through twelfth graders to join and share in the program aims
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Student Chamber of Commerce
S. Cedar
Deanna Rushing
Felice Humphris
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Lousiana
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International Association of Firefighters
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