Senate backs Dole amendment opposing World Bank loans
The Senate approved a Dole amendment to a 5.225 billion funding bill, requiring U.S. representatives to vote against loans to Vietnam Cambodia and Laos from international financial institutions. If loans pass despite U.S. objection, U.S. contributions to these bodies would be reduced accordingly.
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Washington
United States
Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Senate
Southeast Asia
Robert Dole
R-Kan
House
U.S
World Bank
Dole
KGB questions U.S. newsman amid dissident links
Los Angeles Times correspondent Robert Toth remains in Moscow as the KGB widens interrogations over his links to dissident Anatoly Shcharansky and a piece on secret Soviet facilities. Authorities bar him from leaving while investigations continue. he hopes to exit with his family after a three year posting.
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Moscow
KGB
Robert Toth
Anatoly Shcharansky
Los Angeles Times
Toth
U.S
Valery G. Petyukhov
Widow of WWII deserter seeks $68000 life policy pay
Antoinette Slovik, widow of Pvt Eddie Slovik, seeks $68000 plus interest from the National Service Life Insurance policy. She argues the Army wrongfully left her informed of his death and fought for 32 years to reopen the case. The Army Board for the Correction of Military Records hears the matter.
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Washington
Pentagon
Antoinette Slovik
Slovik
Weather watch forecast for scattered storms and hot highs
Forecast calls for widely scattered afternoon and early night thunderstorms then a dry stretch through Thursday. Highs range from 86 in the mountains to near 90 in the Panhandle and 104 in Big Bend. Lows from 56 in the mountains to 62 in the Panhandle and near 70 in the south.
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Panhandle
Big Bend
Locust Grove man questioned in Girl Scout slayings
An unemployed Locust Grove man was arrested by Oklahoma Highway Patrol in Ottawa County and will be questioned by Mayes County authorities about the murders of three Girl Scouts. Sheriff Glen Weaver said investigators believe he could light illuminate the case. bloody footprints on the tent platform tied to the first night of the camping trip were found.
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Locust Grove
Okla
Ottawa County
Mayes County
Glen
Pete’’ Weaver
Miami
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Weaver
State Crime Bureau
Oklahoma City
Son Hills
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Wise
LT. George's
Grenada
Cyrus Vance
Vance
Chile
Argentina
Carter
U.S
State Department
Organization of American States
Bloody tracks point to man in scout murders at Camp Scott
Investigators found large shoe prints on a tent platform where three Girl Scouts were slain at Camp Scott near Cookson Hills Oklahoma. A red flashlight yielded fingerprints. autopsies showed sexual molestation and deaths by head blows or strangulation.
Briscoe signals plan for Texas school finance session
Gov. Dolph Briscoe said he would announce plans today for a possible special session on school finance tied to cutting local fund assignments for the Foundation Program. He also aims to clear about 600 pending bills and consider highway right of way cost changes.
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Austin
Tex
Dolph Briscoe
Briscoe
Researchers warn of rising risk of nuclear war
The SIPRI yearbook says the nuclear arms race and global arms trade raise the probability of a general nuclear war. It notes U S ICBMs at 1 054, SLBMs on 41 submarines, and about 9 000 deployable warheads as factors increasing danger in the coming decade.
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Stockholm
Sweden
United States
Soviet Union
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI
Lone Star Historical Drama Week Proclaimed by Governor
Governor Dolph Briscoe proclaims June 27 to July 3 as Lone Star Historical Drama Week to mark the opening of Lone Star, a new outdoor drama in a 2 million dollar amphitheatre at Galveston Island State Park. Mary Moody Northen attended the ceremony. The play tells the Texas war for independence focusing on Sam Houston, written by Paul Green, Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Austin
Tex
Dolph Briscoe
Galveston Island State Park
Texas
Briscoe
Mary Moody Northen
Galveston
Lone Star
Sam Houston
Paul Green
Autopsy Incomplete in Red Bluff Lake Death
Sheriff Raul Flores reports the autopsy on the Mexican man found dead in Red Bluff Lake is not yet complete. The body was recovered by Buckshot Deacon who says the man appeared to have drowned after swimming post work for the Red Bluff Water District. Last seen Saturday, services are pending.
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Raul Flores
Red Bluff Lake
Ministros de Chile y Argentina confrontan derechos humanos
En la cumbre anual de la OEA, ministros de Chile y Argentina sostienen que la lucha contra el terrorismo debe equilibrarse con libertades individuales. Vance defiende que la justicia social es clave para vencer al terrorismo. El debate revela divisiones entre naciones sobre derechos humanos y seguridad.
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Peggy McCracken
Pecos
Bessie Haynes
Haynes
Viet Nam
Sen
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Opposi
Tion
Humphrey
Shcharansky
Lefortovo
Tot
Larry Napper
Sid Wise
Camp Scott
Lori Lee Farmer
Doris Denise Milner
Michelle Guse
Broken Arrow
Cook
Lori
Michelle
Doris
Asbury Methodist Church
Texas Water Development Board
Texas Department of Water Resources
Esent
Hugh Yantis
Water Quality Board
James Rose
Water Development Board
Arkansas
Adm
Patricio Carvajal
Oscar Montes
Venezuela
Costa Rica
Jamaica
Uruguay
Nicaragua
OAS
Eh Asay Pecos
Paneer
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