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Army considers moving units
Bentsen says location, weather, community make Kingsville
‘ideal’ choice for relocation of Panama intelligence command
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Army is considering moving units
from an Army intelligence com
mand in Panama to one of about
four sites nationwide, including the
Kingsville Naval Air Station in South
Texas, congressional and military
officials said Wednesday.
According to Sen. Lloyd Bentsen,
D-Texas, the move could ultimately
involve the relocation of 4,000 per
sonnel to the base south of Corpus
Christi.
Base spokesman Lt. Bob Thiele
said Army officials were in Kings
ville last week to inspect the air sta
tion’s facilities and were expected to
return for a second visit within the
next couple of weeks.
The naval station is one of about
four being considered for units of
the Army Intelligence and Security
Command (INSCOM) from Pan
ama, Thiele said.
An Army spokesman in Washing
ton, Maj. David Georgi, said how
ever that the search for a site for a
unit or units of INSCOM was in the
initial stages and has “not focused on
any particular area or location.”
He said that “initiatives” were un
der way within the Army to identify
potential relocation sites within the
continental United States in prepa
ration for eventual relocations of
Army units required by implementa
tion of the Panama Canal Treaty.
“INSCOM headquarters recently
moved into new facilities at Fort Bel-
voir, Va., and is not relocating,” he
said.
In a letter Wednesday to Army
Secretary Michael P.W. Stone, Bent
sen said Kingsville would provide
the “ideal location” for the intelli
gence units.
“It combines a first-class military
facility with excellent location, su
perb weather for operations, and a
community that has always wel
comed the military warmly,” Bent
sen said. “The quality of life could
not be better.”
Bentsen told Stone that the local
community also would “work over
time” to help in the relocation.
A decision could be made within
the next several weeks, Bentsen said.
Jazz singer Vaughan
dies of cancer at age 6(i
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leg
endary jazz singer Sarah Vaug
han, the “Divine One” renowned
for her unusual range and flow
ing style peppered with flavors of
be-bop and scat, died of cancer
eight days after her 66th birth
day.
Harold Levy, her manager and
friend, said she died late Tuesday
of lung cancer at her home in the
Hidden Hills area of the west San
Fernando Valley. She had been ill
for nearly a year and was released
from Cedars-Sinai Medical Cen
ter hours before her death.
“Sarah Vaughan was among
the most powerful, influential
and soulful voices of all time, a
iursday,
perfectionist with an astonishing
vocal range and a genius for con
veying emotion through her mu
sic,” said Quincy Jones, who first
worked with Vaughan in 1957 as
the arranger on “Misty.”
Some of her other memorable
songs included “Broken-Hearted
Melody,” “Send in the Clowns”
and “If You Could See Me Now.”
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US
Vaughan’s voice, over which
she had phenomenal control, had
lovely tone and was true in pitch.
She had a mastery of scat singing,
improvising, swinging and phras
ing.
Texas farmers may lose citrus crop insurance
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of
jobs in the Texas citrus industry could be
lost if the Agriculture Department fails to
reassure farmers and bankers that it will
continue to back federal crop insurance
policies, a trade official warned Congress.
Texas citrus farmers, struggling to re
cover from a December freeze that caused
millions of dollars in crop losses, are the
first to receive warnings from the federal
government that the next crop insurance
policies they buy may not be honored if di
saster strikes again.
In a recent notice in the Federal Register,
the U.S. Agriculture Department warned
that it would begin issuing notices that in
surance policies for 1991 crops would be
subject to congressional appropriations.
The notices were to go out before various
deadlines for farmers to purchase insur
ance on different crops. Texas citrus grow
ers must purchase crop insurance by June
1, while the closing date for wheat policies is
Sept. 30, according to Sen. Lloyd Bentsen,
D-Texas.
Senators, House members and trade offi
cials say that while crop insurance policies
have always been
mi
dm
technically” subject to
congressional appropriations, USDA’s
plans set off a “shock wave” through rural
America. The Bush administration is rec
ommending that the crop insurance pro
gram be cancelled next year.
“This has caused havoc all over the place,
including some companies cancelling some
policies,” said Rep. Kika de la Garza, chair
man of the House Agriculture Committee.
In the meantime, however, Texas citrus
growers and bankers are in the process of
deciding whether to replant acreage killed
by the freeze, said Ray Prewett, executive
vice president of the Texas Citrus Mutual
trade association and president of Valley
Ag Insurance Services Inc.
“The bankers are saying loud and clear
that without the availability of tree insur
ance they are not going to continue financ
ing citrus growers,” Prewett told the House
Agriculture subcommittee on conservation,
credit and rural development at a hearing
Tuesday.
“Planting citrus is also not a one-year
commitment but a long-term commitment
and growers and their bankers simply must
know if they can count on the continued
availability of the citrus tree insurance,”
Prewett said.
Prewett warned that if tree insurance
policies are cancelled, “growers won’t re
plant and some 5,000 people will have the
difficult task of finding employment in an
other industry for which they may have lim
ited skills.”
About 5,000 people were laid off as a re
sult of the December freeze, he said.
Prewett said Wednesday that he was opti
mistic, however, that USDA would resolve
the issue within the next few days and that
insurers would go ahead and write policies
on the next citrus crop.
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