U S to aid rebuild of Afghan province hit by airstrike
Afghan officials say the United States will aid Uruzgan with development projects rather than cash. Plans include drilling wells, medical equipment, schools, roads, and a dam reconstruction after a July airstrike killed 48 people at a wedding and injured 117. The move aims to ease tensions while U S investigators question casualty figures.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
United States
Uruzgan
U.S
Hamid Karzai
Syed Fazl Akbar
Associated Press
Uruz
Gan
Bagram
Roger King
King
Dan McNeill
McNeill
al-Qaida
Taliban
Mohammed Arif Noorzai
Dan Mc
Neill
Noorzai
Pentagon opposes sending delegation over missing pilot Speicher
The Pentagon urges the State Department to send a diplomatic note to Baghdad via the Red Cross to seek new information about missing Gulf War pilot Lt. Cmdr. Scott Speicher. If Iraq provides new details, a meeting in Geneva could be proposed with Red Cross representatives.
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Washington
Pentagon
Iraq
Baghdad
Cmdr
Scott Speicher
State Department
International Committee of the Red Cross
Speicher
Marine Corps
David Lapan
U.S
United States
Geneva
Red Cross
Ous
Holcomb Council approves budget moves to raise health reserve
Holcomb City hikes the mill levy to 56.51 and tightens spending to fund a larger equipment reserve for a new fire truck while shifting funds within the budget. Main Street rebuilding and lagoon water pumping advances are planned for 2003 with non tax funds.
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Jannelle Robins-Gaede
Dennis Lauer
Holcomb
Main Street
Ag leaders to discuss farm issues workshop in Kansas
A Midwest NASDA meeting in Garden City Kansas will host a Monday workshop led by James Gulliford EPA regional director. Attendees will tour Beef Land Feed Yard Santa Fe Trail Dairy Gray County Wind Farm Ogal lala Aquifer Center and Reeve Agri Energy. NASDA members from 13 states plus Kentucky official Billy Ray Smith are slated to attend.
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Ment of Agriculture
James Gulliford
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Santa Fe Trail
Gray County
Ogallala
Wheat elevators cut staff as harvest underperforms
Lane County farms face bleak fall harvest with dryland milo and wheat yield shrinking. At the Dighton Co-op only 2.4 million bushels came in, prompting layoffs across Farmers Co-op Oil, the elevator, and related operations. Farmco and Johnson Co op Grain also trimmed hours and staff as rainfall fails to materialize.
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Dighton Co-op
Barber
Co-op
Lane County
Milo
Greeley County
Joe Horton
Farmco, Inc
Horton
Farmco
Johnson City
Johnson Coop Grain Company
Tom Ryan
Ryan
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