Farm Bureau critiques cyanide gun plan for fox control
The American Farm Bureau Federation attacks the EPA and Fish and Wildlife Service for proposing limited use of the outlawed M-44 cyanide gas gun to eliminate about 15 Arctic blue foxes near Agattu Island while reestablishing the Aleutian Canada goose. The bureau warns of indiscriminate harm to other animals and humans and questions agency double standards.
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American Farm Bureau
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
AFB Information Division
Environmental Protection Agency
Wildlife Service
Alaetian
Agattu
Farm Bureau
Richard W. Owens
American Farm Bureau Federation
Owens
EPA
The
Pension Partiality In Government Pensions and Post Retirement Work
The piece argues government and military pension plans are tax funded and unlikely to end. It notes early retirement ages and post retirement work in public roles, calling triple pay at public expense unfair. It cites 141000 retirees drawing pensions while employed by the federal government costing 2.8 billion annually.
CBS credibility questioned after false winner-take-all matches
A Sports Illustrated report alleges CBS News aired two $250,000 winner-take-all tennis matches with misleading publicity. The accounts cite inflated guarantees for Jimmy Connors and misrepresented prize structures, undermining trust in CBS from sports to news.
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Sports Illustrated
CBS News
Staten Island Register
New York Times
Jimmy Connors
CBS
Las Vegas
Manuel Orantes
Register
Connors
Orantes
John Kennedy
Kennedy
Times
Neil Admur
Ilie Nastase
Bill Riordan
Nastase
Riordan
Richard Nixon
Bureaucracy and Gun Sale Shadow El Salvador Election Turmoil
A State Department arms sale approved for El Salvador included hollow point bullets and submachine guns aimed at internal security. The purchase faced interdepartmental critique, but delivery occurred before elections, while reports describe ballot stuffing and intimidation as the military regime manipulated the vote.
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Washington
Carter
el Salvador
State Department
Arms sale reversal and pesticide disaster in Central America
Government canceled parts of an arms sale amid protests while UN findings link decades of pesticide misuse in El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua to thousands poisoned and dozens killed. The report notes cattle contamination and rising malaria despite efforts to cut spraying. In Kansas a two car crash near Neosho Memorial Hospital left four treated and observed with minor injuries.
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el Salvador
Central America
United States
United Nations
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
U.S
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Alma Gatewood
Sharon Newkirk
Coffeyville
35Th
Plummer
A__ hospital
Donna Dallo
Fredonia
Diana Detwiler
Buffalo
Janet Detwiler
Kansas Highway Patrol
Dallo
Gatewood
Rural Clergy Trains to Help Drug Abusers in Kansas
Kansas rural clergy, including Rev. Howard Ray of Stockton, attend two day seminars on drug abuse to learn treatment referral, counseling techniques, and client communication. The program from Wichita State University aims to expand clergy’s role in rural addiction issues with federal funding and ongoing coaching.
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Kansas
Howard Ray
Stockton
Northcentral
Ray
Assembly of God Church
Counseling Center
Wichita State University
Frank Gerner
Alcohol and Drug Division
C.J. Smith
Independence
Grace Memorial United Methodist Church
Hays
Coffeyville
Hutchinson
Liberal
Pennie Cohen
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Columbia Broadcasting System
Walter Cronkite
Eric Sevareid
Roger Mudd
Topeka
Bob Dole
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Gerald Ford
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