Last instructions to KLM jet and deadly collision
The Santa Cruz tower told the KLM jumbo to stand by for takeoff before it crashed into a Pan American plane. Investigators say the KLM had not been cleared to take off and the runways and taxiways were disputed by both airlines.
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Associated Press
Santa Cruz DE Tenerife
Canary Islands
Santa Cruz
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Washington
Franz van Reysen
Dutch
Civil Aviation Authority
Duke Freshman Predicted Major Airliner Tragedy
Duke University freshman Lee Fried predicted a week before that an air liner catastrophe would kill over 590 people. His sealed envelope forecast was read on a Durham TV program, citing headlines about a 747 collision and the worst aviation disaster on record.
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Duke University
Lee Fried
Paul Vick
Duke
Terry Sanford
Fried
News and Observer
Raleigh
Canary Islands
County approves Chevrolet truck for Precinct 4
County commissioners opened bids for a new Precinct 4 truck and chose a Chevrolet from Ed Robinson Chevrolet over a Ford bid that matched on price but offered a lower trade-in. The final net price after trade-in was $5,075 for the Chevrolet.
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Precinct 4
Cecil Cothrun
Chevrolet
Ed Robinson
Ford
Survivors reach Brooke burn center after Canary Islands crash
Seventeen survivors of two jumbo jet collisions in the Canary Islands were flown to U S centers. Fourteen were moved by ambulance to Brooke Army Medical Hospital burn center in San Antonio after landing at Kelly AFB. The disaster killed 575 aboard the Pan American and KLM flights.
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Long Beach
Calif
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United States
Col
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Petaluma
Santa Cruz
U.S. Army Burn Center
San Antonio
Tex
Carla Johnson
Pan American
FT. Sam Houston
Canary Islands
Brooke Army Medical Hospital
Institute For Surgical Research
Kelly Air Force Base
Brooke Army Hospital
el Toro Marine Base
California
Tenerife
Spain
Pan American Airlines
KLM Airlines
Isabel Lord
McGuire Air Force Base
McGuire Afb
Air Force
Blizzard Warnings Map North Central States
Blizzard warnings were posted in northwestern Nebraska and northeastern Wyoming with reductions to winter storm warnings across the Dakotas. Travel advisories issued for southeastern North Dakota and parts of Minnesota, Wyoming, and Montana. Scattered storms swept from the Mississippi Valley to the southern Appalachians with flood warnings in the region.
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Balmorhea Candidate Angelina Brijalba Seeks City Council
Angelina Brijalba, 33, a Balmorhea-area resident and beauty shop owner, plans to run for Balmorhea City Council. She cites plans for a new sewer system and aims to work with fellow council members, while training as an EMT and volunteering in ambulance service. She has daughter Laticia and previously held officer roles in local Catholic Women’s Club and band boosters.
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Angelina Brijalba
Balmorhea
Tri-State Beauty School
el Paso
Laticia
Catholic Women’s Club
Band Boosters Club
FDA recalls two pacemaker models nationwide
The FDA announced recalls of 497 Vitatron and 448 Interlith Lithium heart pacemakers implanted in patients across the country. The notices indicate ongoing safety concerns prompting the actions by the manufacturers.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
Air Force to close Webb AFB in Big Spring Texas
The U S Air Force will close Webb Air Force Base in Big Spring Texas as announced by Senator John Tower R Texas City leaders were notified by Tower s office about the decision.
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R Tex
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Texas
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Rings Revealed Around Uranus by Five Thin Rings
Scientists led by Dr. James Elliott at Cornell announced the discovery of five faint rings around Uranus, spotted from an airborne lab over the Indian Ocean on March 10. The finding marks the first confirmed ring system beyond Saturn among the nine planets, described as a surprising structural development in the solar system.
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Mountain View
Calif
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Uranus
Saturn
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Cornell University
Elliott
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ames Research Center
Indian Ocean
Arms talks break down after Soviet rejection
MOSCOW AP U S Soviet negotiations on a new nuclear arms control agreement collapsed when the Soviet Union rejected American concepts for a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance said Soviet leader Leonid I Brezhnev rejected the proposals at a news conference.
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U.S
Cyrus R. Vance
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Weather Watch Fair Tonight With Cloudy Thursday Showers
Fair tonight with increasing cloudiness on Thursday. Widely scattered mountain showers are possible in the forecast.
Area towns pick council seats in Reeves County Saturday
Balmorhea Barstow and Toyah hold city elections Saturday with multiple council seats. Balmorhea voters choose three aldermen from six candidates and vote for Place II Place IV and Place V council posts. Barstow offers three seats with one incumbent and a write in second. Toyah lists six candidates for three seats led by incumbents Haile and Richards.
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Balmorhea
Barstow
Toyah
Reeves County
H.S. Haile
Lonnie Richards
Sandra Gibson
George Bryant
S.O. Valdez
Delores Drier
Verda Begay
Vivian McElligott
Balmorhea Odes O'Rear Seeks Return To Balmorhea Council
Odes O'Rear, incumbent Balmorhea city councilman, seeks re election. Raised in the area he joined the Navy in 1941 and served as gunner's mate third class. He earned bachelor’s in agriculture and a master’s in administrative education and is principal of local schools. He is a Mason with various offices and has two grown daughters. At 52 he has campaigned to fund sewer work and move irrigation underground.
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Odes O’rear
Balmorhea
Navy
O’rear
Absentee voting sets new records in Pecos area
Absentee voting hit new highs for Pecos City Council and Pecos-Barstow-Toyah Independent School District elections. In person turnout peaked at the district office with 562 votes and 501 at Pecos City Hall. Mail ballots counted up to 81 with one awaiting mailing. Officials cited school vacation, a Texas rule allowing seniors to vote absentee, Home Guard travel, and spring breaks as drivers. Ballots arrive by election day deadlines. totals likely rise. In New York a separate study links smoking and birth control pills to higher heart attack risk in women over 40.
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Pecos-Barstow-Toyah Independent School District
Pecos City Hall
Texas
Home Guard
Odessa
Marilea Parons
Frances Gunn
New York
Andrudh K. Jain
Population Council
Jain
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