Kansas to press for excess water release at Arkansas River meeting
Kansas and Colorado officials gather in Lamar Colorado for the Arkansas River Compact Administration annual meeting to discuss releasing excess water from Trinidad Reservoir. Kansas will seek enforcement of the 40 60 split and may seek arbitration if the request fails.
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Colorado
Trinidad
Compact
Lamar
Colo
Ron Olomon
Garden City
Carl Bentrup
Deerfield
Guy Gibson
Kansas Water Resources Authority
Olomon
Clemon
John Martin Reservoir
Arkansas River
JACOS seek bail-out for Kansas junior colleges
Kansas junior colleges seek a short-term bail-out up to 1.5 million dollars from the legislature to cover next year’s budget gaps. A legislative committee of the Kansas Association of Community Colleges met in El Dorado to discuss finances and postponed a 70 million dollar property base plan, aiming to restore aid lost to the farm machinery tax exemption and raise state aid to offset shortfalls.
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Topeka
Hns
Kansas
Kansas Association of Community Colleges
el Dorado
Ed Walbourn
KACC
Walbourn
Trade talk eases farm clash between U S and Europe
In Brussels officials say a trans Atlantic farm trade war is averted for now as Secretary of State Shultz and four cabinet aides meet with Common Market counterparts to negotiate subsidies. They plan detailed talks in January with a review in March to avert further deterioration in relations.
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Brussels
Belgium
USS
America
George P. Shultz
U.S
Atlantic
John Block
Block
Europe
Gaston Thorn
Common Market
Cosmonauts Berezovoy and Lebedev Return After 211 Day Flight
Anatoly Berezovoy and Valentin Lebedev land in the Kazakh steppe after 211 days aboard Salyut-7, ending the longest space flight. Tass reports they are well after medical checkups. landing occurred at 10 03 p.m. Moscow time, with Soyuz-7 undocking and parachute-assisted touchdown.
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Anatoly Berezovoy
Valentin Lebedev
Earth
Tass
Berezovoy
Lebedev
Salyut-7 Space Station
Dzhezkazgan
Kazakhstan
Moscow Radio
Leonid Popov
Valery Ryumin
Space
Robot defuses bomb at Publix in Deerfield Beach
A caller claimed to have planted bombs at 30 Florida Publix stores but only one device existed in Deerfield Beach. A police robot defused the cardboard box bomb 70 minutes before detonation while evacuations were in place. No injuries were reported. Police searched other stores but found no explosives.
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Garden City
National Weather Bureau
Dodge City
Deerfield Beach
Fla
Florida
William Neal
Publix
Palm Aire Plaza
Richard Giuffreda
Jim Blanton
Lakeland
Publix Corp
Daniel Cummings
Blanton
Holcomb Names New Clerk Administrator Geist Chosen
Holcomb City Council hires David Geist 28 as administrator and clerk. He comes from Ulysses where he worked five years and will take office January 10 after a unanimous vote. Geist, Oakley native, holds a Kansas State University parks management degree and has managed grants and budgets, expressing both pride and reluctance to leave Ulysses. He replaces Gay Ross who resigned earlier this month as city clerk.
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Holcomb
David Geist
City of
Ulysses
Geist
Ivan Myers
Myers
Oakley
Oakley High School
Colby Community College
Kansas State University
Tank explosion forces evacuation near Taft Louisiana
A 40,000 gallon acrolein storage tank exploded at Union Carbide plant in Taft Louisiana causing up to 25,000 residents within a five mile radius to evacuate. Poisonous fumes feared lethal. fire to burn contents to keep fumes from air. Evacuation included 20 000 to 25 000 people with shelters set at three high schools.
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Taft, la
Union Carbide Corp
Henry Wolfe
St. Charles Parish
Wolfe
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Jules Hymel
Parish Civil Defense
Hymel
Stan Sutherland
Louisiana
Sutherland
Taft
Hahnville
Killona
Norco
Montz
New Sarpy
Heat rule blocked by legal questions in Kansas
In Topeka the Kansas Corporation Commission faces a legal roadblock delaying an emergency order to restore heat to customers with unpaid bills and to halt winter disconnections. Attorney General staff must approve authority before the measure can go into effect, with a Monday decision anticipated. the plan would require partial payments for reconnection and direct utilities to resume service during winter.
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Kan
Kansas Corporation Commission
Kansas
KCC
Tersely
Robert Stephan
Stephan
Corporation Commission
Secretary of Administration
Attorney General's
Tom Taylor
ECC
Patrick Hurley
Taylor
Wichita
John Carlin
Mike Swenson
Carlin
Rules Board
Neil Woerman
The
Woerman
Attorney General
Gas Service Co
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