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Swasy is now enduring one of the two main results of the subpoena epidemic, a chill on her work because confidential sources may not feel safely anonymous. Other reporters have faced worse. In recent months, Libby Averyt of Texas' Corpus Christi Caller-Times and Brian Karem of KMOL-TV in San Antonio were jailed briefly for withholding unpublished or confidential information. Jail, fines or other punishments were threatened against reporters at the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Houston Post and Chronicle, Oakland Tribune and even Florida's Stuart News and Oklahoma's Pryor Daily Times...
...people are frustrated and saying something needs to be done," she says, "they are willing to turn to somebody different." After the Texas economy went bust in the '80s, an unprecedented number of women were elected to straighten things out, including the mayors of Dallas, San Antonio and Corpus Christi. This year Ann Richards, who became the first woman to hold statewide office in Texas in a half-century when she was elected state treasurer in 1982, hoped for the same voter response in her knock-down, drag-out battle for the governorship...
Remember holidays too. In addition to Christmas, New Year's, Twelfth Night, Ascension, Pentecost, Easter, May Day and All Saints' Day, predominantly Catholic Bavaria, for example, celebrates Maria Himmelfahrt (Assumption), Fronleichnam (Corpus Christi) and, in a bow to ecumenism, the Protestants' Buss-und Bettag (Day of Prayer and Repentance). All this and June 17 (German Unity...
Between Corpus Christi, Texas, and Mobile, one of the world's most extensive petrochemical complexes attracts the heaviest concentration of oil-tanker traffic off any U.S. coast. The Exxon Valdez disaster, which dumped 11 million gal. of crude oil into Alaskan waters in March 1989 should have jolted the U.S. -- and the Gulf States in particular -- into preparations for coping with such devastating spills. Just how dismally they have failed was demonstrated last week when fires and explosions wracked the 886-ft. Mega Borg for seven days, 60 miles off Galveston. For a time the convulsions threatened to disgorge...
Kansas State's Janet Haskins broke out from the throng that caught Jones at the 8800-meter mark and eventually finished 30 meters ahead of the pack in a time of 33:49.72. Lisa Stone of Baylor took second in 33:51.50, Christi Konstantin of Georgetown nabbed third in 33:55.57, and Jones crossed the line...