Kyemba calls Amin a monster in Ugandan critique
Former Ugandan minister Henry Kyemba told about 100 at Triton College that Idi Amin destroyed human dignity and sparked a brutal regime. He described Amin as a brutal dictator who rose by quashing dissent, and urged Americans to halt Ugandan coffee imports and military sales to pressure change.
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Terry Levin
Idi Amin
Uganda
Amin
Henry Kyemba
Triton College
River Grove
Kyemba
Fifth Ave
Makerere University
Africa
Milton Obote
Obote
Idi Amin Dada
Burma
Nile
United States
Great Britain
U.S
General Foods
Folger’s
Napoleon
Dora Bloch
Entebbe
Hitler
Dreaming of bats and balls at the Shortstop Lounge
A first-person vignette set in the Shortstop Lounge on Madison Street near Thomas Avenue. The narrator, fueled by beer and pancakes, hews between memories of childhood baseball dreams and the imminent return of spring training, as Sox and Cubs chatter stirs anticipation and nostalgia.
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Scott F. Betts
Shortstop
Milwaukee
Desplaines Avenue
Forest Park
Madison Street
Thomas Avenue
Potomac
White Sox
Cubs
Bonds
Murcer
Bui
Proviso Township Chamber Orchestra earns Illinois consortium slot
For the fifth straight year the Proviso Township High Schools Chamber Orchestra earned selection by the University of Illinois to perform at the annual orchestra consortium on February 11.16 students from Proviso East Orchestra performed works including A Mighty Fortress and Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3. The group hailed the Brandenburg piece as the hardest in a decade and featured Maywood students such as Sharon Lites Lisa Altergott Kevin Barrett Vera Denwiddie Paulita Cabalquinto and others.
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Proviso Township High Schools Chamber Orchestra
University of Illinois
Champaign
Orchestra Consortium
Proviso Orchestra
State of Illinois
Vaclav Nelhybel
Bach
Edward E. Albin
Proviso East
Sharon Lites
Broadview
Lisa Altergott
Kevin Barrett
Vera Denwiddie
Paulita Cabalquinto
Carolina Maclin
Theresa Moore
Darryl Polk
Susan Temple
Denise Thompson
Laura Vock
Ramona Webb
Michelle Wilson
Maywood
Safety first in school crossing guard dispute
Lambke urged the school board to cooperate with crossing guards and educate children to cross intersections safely. He said safety is the sole issue and warned against personal attacks while noting Illinois law requires schools to provide crossing guards. He questioned if a guard would be visible at St. Bernadine's at noon.
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Lambke
Hayes
Illinois
St. Bernadine’s
Your Writing By James J Murray Analysis Card
Murray is a handwriting analyst and educator who counsels in Forest Park. The text profiles a person named Tad as highly driven, quick minded, talkative, and sometimes sarcastic. It cites artistic talent and a plan oriented nature while warning against pushiness and bullying.
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James J. Murray
Murray
International Graphoanalysis Society
Forest Park
Tad
Courage and character pace a tour of human grit
Considine chronicles courage across diverse lives from nameless Chinese missionaries to Lou Gehrig. His brisk wit fits a short take on bravery, pain, and resilience while praising ordinary people who endure.
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Considine
China
New York
Lou Gehrig
Hyde and Pepper propose act to fund long term elder care
U S Representative Henry J Hyde and Claude Pepper back a bill amending the Older Americans Act to create state grants for local and statewide long term care initiatives. The plan would assess health and social needs of chronically ill and disabled seniors and fund non institutional and institutional services with 90 percent federal matching grants for three years.
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U.S
Henry J. Hyde
R-6th
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
Select Committee On Aging
Hyde
Area
Commissioner of Aging
Administration On Aging
International potluck dinner and auction at Grant-White
Grant-White Elementary hosted an international potluck dinner and auction with India Ireland Mexico and Italy among the represented nations. Entrees ranged from fettucini alfredo to polishes pigs in a blanket as 50 attendees bid on items from Battleships to a gold sequined pineapple. The event aimed to help Grant-White parents mingle and featured a lively auction led by Lerry Fitzpatrick.
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India
Ireland
Mexico
Italy
Randolph Street
Circle School
Fitzpatrick
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Damned In Paradise
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John
Kobler
Barrymore
Drew
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Barrymores
the Winemakers
Jack M. Bickham
California
Grant-White
St. Bernardine Hall
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