U.S. and China to open official liaison offices in ties reset
The United States and China will establish official liaison offices in Washington and Beijing to speed normalization and trade talks. Kissinger said the offices grant full diplomatic privileges without formal relations. Also reported: two U.S. airmen held since 1965 as POWs will be released in coming weeks.
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United States
China
Peking
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
Air Force
Philip E. Smith
Navy
Cmdr
Robert
Pecos DECA students sweep Area I leadership awards
Pecos High School students Gay Thigpen Teresa Jones and Randy Harp earned two first places and a first alternate at the Area I IT youth leadership conference in Midland. They will compete in a state contest March 9 and 10 at the Astroworld complex in Houston.
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Area T
Midland
Hartman
Gay Thigpen
Teresa Jones
Randy Harp
Pecos
Distributive Education Clubs of America
Eugene Thigpen
Allan Jones
Stanley Harp
PHS
Club Spon
Sor
Astroworld Complex
Houston
Pecos High School
Railroad bounds safety steps after 14 car derailment
Railroad officials chemists and state and federal officials met with city manager and fire chief to report measures taken to prevent danger from contamination and explosion after Tuesday morning derailment. plan includes pumping vinyl chloride into other cars, removing contaminated soil, testing remaining soil, and warning residents with evacuation zones.
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J.T Prewit
Maxey
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Ricky E. Rodrigue
Texas Parks and Wildlife
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Texas Water Quality Board
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Bureau of Explosives
Dow Chemical
Y. Petty
T. A. Swenson
Texas Railroad Commission
Wayne McClung
Midland
Handl
Lon
Psible
Pecos
Odessa Medical Center
Obie
Maddux
Bill Cowart
Clarence Cox
Harold Burleson
Weldon Brookshire
W. W. Lewis
Handley
Ms. Lewis
IMAGE officials to boost Pecos education efforts
IMAGE, a youth Mexican-American group, will send Tony Calderon and Dr. Mike Medina to address Pecos students at East Pecos Junior High and Pecos High School with a 12 15 p m center ceremony at 212 S Oak St. The event aims to motivate higher education and includes a guest from the Texas Missouri Lutheran synod.
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Pecos
Tony Calderon
San Antonio
Mike Medina
Central Board of Directors
East Pecos Junior High School
Pecos High School
S. Oak St
Arnie Calderon
Calderon
Medina
University of Texas
U. S
Amarillo Slim Stakes $10,000 in High Stakes Hold Em Game
Amarillo Slim and three partners each risk $10,000 to enter a no limit hold em game at the Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas. Ten players sit with $130,000 in chips as the biggest casino sponsored event, with rival pros Egghead Goodie and the Mysterious Doctor waiting in the wings. The stakes promise a potential prize of hundreds of thousands for the winner.
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Pecos
Pug
Toughie
Sailor
Associated Press
Egghead
Goodie
Doctor
Golden Nugget
Glitter Gulch
Bill Boyd
Nugget Casino
Thomas Autin
Preston
Tape shows pilot had no contact
The Associated Press reports world outcry after Libyan Airways 727 was shot down over Sinai with over 100 feared dead. Egypt says no evidence the French pilot contacted Israeli fighters as Cairo releases a tape of the pilot’s last communications.
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Nixon
Mordechai Hod
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Middle East
Libya
Egypt
Cairo
Libyan Airways Flight 114
Sinai
Ford
Snowstorm sweeps Texas panels Panhandle to South Plains
A Texas snowstorm moved into the state with up to four inches expected in the Panhandle and South Plains. Snow covered Midland Lubbock Amarillo and Big Spring while drizzle persisted elsewhere. Hazardous driving conditions and winds creating drifts were forecast.
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Panhandle
South Plains
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Lubbock
Amarillo
Big Spring
Rio Grande Valley
West Texas
Associated Press
Pecos River
Abilene
Corpus Christi
el Paso
Brownsville
Oxnard Faces Major Property Loss After Southern California Quake
The Oxnard Camarillo area reports about 7 000 electric customers without power after 13 Edison circuits went down. A rock slide blocked the Pacific Coast Highway for over an hour and a half. City officials estimate losses near 1 million dollars and note no state aid. The quake also rattled the coast from Santa Barbara to San Diego and felt up to Palm Springs.
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Ventura County
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Santa Barbara
San Diego
Palm Springs
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