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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 2002
Page
3
The GC Telegram lists its historic establishment in 1906 with Bill Draper as editor and publisher and linking to staff roles such as managing editor. It reflects the paper’s long-running newsroom leadership and the editorial attribution under Draper’s tenure.
Caesar Barber, 56, of New York, sues McDonald’s Wendy’s Burger King and KFC in Bronx Supreme Court alleging obesity and related health issues from years of fatty meals. He claims diabetes high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The Tribune-Democrat notes the filing as another example of imprudent litigation.
The president and Congress celebrate a landmark reform package designed to curb top level corporate dishonesty. It strengthens penalties for investor fraud and creates a federal accounting board, signaling a cautious step toward improved public protection and ongoing regulatory vigilance.
A set of lawmakers including House Majority Leader Dick Armey urged caution on potential U S action against Iraq. Separately Edward MacMahon, lawyer for Sept 11 defendant Zacarias Moussaoui, rejects a plan to use emotional videos for jurors. The Boston Archdiocese criticizes Governor Keating for urging Catholics to withhold church support over priest abuse scandal.
Friday August ninth marks 2002’s day with events across centuries. Hiroshima Nagasaki atomic bombing killed about seventy four thousand. Webster Ashburton Treaty settled U S Canada border. Thoreau published Walden. Jesse Owens Olympic success. Singapore proclaimed independence. Sharon Tate murder. Jerry Garcia death in San Francisco.
Ellen Goodman argues that lawn mania reveals a national obsession with control over nature. She notes postwar marketing tied lawn care to military power, cites vast pesticide and water use, and contrasts industrial genetic grass with free nature.
Judy Wicks of White Dog Café urges action to realign U S spending with fairness and compassion. She argues for Kyoto Protocol adoption energy efficiency and foreign aid while cutting Pentagon waste and promoting campaign finance reform. She cites energy policy and moral duty as central to lasting peace and security.
The article argues that official U S complicity in Patrice Lumumba's overthrow and murder influenced decades of dictatorship in Congo. It notes Belgian apology, Mobutu's regime, and costly aid tied to Cold War aims, urging public accountability and learning from history. Bill Fletcher Jr. of TransAfrica Forum is cited as a commentator.
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