Senate approves SALT II treaty amid sharp party split
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 9 to 6 to back ratification of SALT II with the Soviet Union, ending four months of review. Democrats and Republicans split. leaders warn a lengthy debate ahead as opponents push to block or demand changes before a full Senate vote.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Soviet Union
John Glen
Ohio
Richard Stone
D-Fla
Howard Baker
R-Tenn
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
S.I. Hayakawa
R-Calif
Richard Lugar
R-Ind
Frank Church
Idaho
Claiborne Pell
George McGovern
D-S.d
Joseph R. Biden
Paul Sarbanes
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Edward Zorinsky
Jacob K. Javits
Rn.y
Charles H. Percy
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Church
Carter
Leonid Brezhnev
SALT II debate stirs Senate with mixed support
Senate leaders and key figures clash over SALT II as Baker calls the treaty unequal while Helms warns of a 42 percent Soviet rise in strategic weapons and McGovern backs the deal hoping for future arms reductions.
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Senate
Baker
GOP
Helms
McGovern
Latest equipment used Pecos ambulance crew provides vital service
Pecos Ambulance Service, now a joint city county operation, covers from Beer Hill Barstow to Shaw Road west on I 20 and beyond. Ten certified Emergency Medical Technicians run four crews, responding to 496 calls last year with 146 transfers. Funds come 50 50 from Pecos town and county with $34 430 in expenditures. two new ambulances cost 19k 21k each.
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Jayne Robinson
Pecos
Reeves County
Pecos- Barstow
Beer Hill
Barstow
Shaw Road
State Line
Highway 285
Cayanosa
Balmorhea
Toyah
City and
Leo Elliott
State Health Department
Red Cross
American Heart Assoc
Texas State Health Department
Odessa College
Odessa Medical Center
Texas State Department of Health
State Health Dept
Pecos Balance Service
Pecos Ambulance Service
Pecos Police
Cullen Davis acquitted by jury in Texas case
Fort Worth Texas jurors acquitted Cullen Davis an industrialist of plotting to kill his divorce judge after a 16 hour deliberation The Associated Press report notes the jury of eight men and three women disrupted the state tape recording during proceedings and delivered the verdict today
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Mike Cochran
Associated Press
Fort Worth
Weather and crime notes cloud Pecos and Texas region
Weather update reports cooler temperatures with scattered clouds across Pecos and vicinity. A separate Texas case covers Davis, 46, claiming he was framed in a murder for hire plot, with a Houston jury partially convicting in a prior trial and the DA pursuing additional charges.
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Pecos
West Texas
Big Bend
Davis
Houston
Richard
Haynes
Dallas
Phil Burleson
Vocational Education report shown to Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD
A board of education meeting reveals 44.5 percent of Vocational Education students are employed in their trained field or related work. 15.73 percent enter college and 3.37 percent join the military. about 12 percent work in other fields, 1.12 percent unemployed. Other actions include approving two Gifted and Talented field trips, seeking TO sell a 1966 bus and a 1969 van, and noting teacher degree holdings. Nelda Blevins named to Bessie Haynes second grade. resignations of Sandra Tarno Tawna Stewart and Elmo Chesney approved.
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Board of Education
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah Independent School District
Duval Sulphur
Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
Texas Education Agency
Dalton Moseley
Texas
Sul Ross University
Man Shot Dead After Bus Shooting Incident in Dallas
An unidentified man who allegedly fired a pistol on a city bus and then shot at a police officer was shot and killed just east of downtown Dallas, police spokesman Bob Shaw said.
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Dallas
Police Department
Bob Shaw
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