Court OKs Kansas Port Authority Law Bond Plan
The Kansas Supreme Court upholds the port authority law as amended, ruling the changes remove legal barriers to Kansas City Kansas issuing bonds for a GM assembly plant expansion in Wyandotte County. The ruling follows a request by Wyandotte County District Attorney Nick Tomasic to block bond issuance, and GM says the expansion is now delayed by economic conditions with unclear impact from the decision.
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Topeka, Kan
Kansas Supreme Court
Kansas City, Kan
General Motors Assembly
Wyandotte County
Nick Tomasic
Kansas City
Kan
General Motors
Hua Guofeng resigns as China party chief Hu Yaobang named replacement
Chinese news agency Xinhua reports Hua Guofeng resigns as Communist Party Chairman. Hu Yaobang elected to replace him, Deng Xiaoping becomes party Chairman of the military commission, Hua and Zhao Ziyang named vice chairmen along with four others on the Politburo standing committee. Deng is viewed as top leader.
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Peking
Communist Party
Hua Guofeng
Mao Tse-tung
Hu Yaobang
Xinhua
Hua
Zhao Ziyang
Deng Xiaoping
China
Zhao
Deng
Ye Jianying
Li Xiannian
Chen Yun
Tehran Explosions Kill Top Iran Leaders Spark Protests
Protesters flood Tehran after an explosion killed Ayatollah Behshti and 68 other leaders, triggering calls to mourn in mourning ceremonies. Government and media blame counter-revolutionaries and mercenaries tied to the U.S. while mobs chant anti American slogans and fault leftists amid warnings of civil war.
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Lebanon
Tehran
Ayatollah
Mohammad Behshti
Iran
Mohammad Ali Rajai
Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani
Behshti
Islamic Republican Party
Associated Press
America
Tehran Radio
U.S.A
Pars
Abolhassan Bani Sadr
Ruhollah Khomeini
Seyyed Ali Khomeini
Rajai
Majlis
Garden City urged to open homes for incoming workers
Garden City leaders urge residents to offer spare rooms to workers drawn by the IBP Finney County plant and Sunflower Electric project. Officials note housing is scarce, with 1,100 IBP workers and 406 at Sunflower as of May. A proposed $10.5 million mortgage revenue bond could aid future housing, though terms remain uncertain.
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Garden Citian
Duane West
Dale Birney
Garden City
West
Iowa Beef Processors, Inc
Holcomb
Sunflower Electric
Keith Tinglehoff
IBP
Finney County
Blake McGuire
Sunflower
Cimarron
McGuire
Birney
Congress
IRB
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Bob Nold
United Securities of
Wichita
Seward County
Nold
Court upholds passport denial for ex CIA agent Agee
The Supreme Court by 7 to 2 rules Agee, a former CIA agent turned critic, has no right to an American passport. Justices say Carter administration acted properly when revoking Agee's passport in 1979 for exposing CIA agents and opposing the agency. Agee, living in Hamburg, has been barred from several Western European countries and has not faced criminal charges in the United States.
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Washington
Philip Agee
CIA
Supreme Court
Carter Administration
Agee
Europe
Africa
Hamburg
West Germany
U.S
United States
Warren E. Burger
Burger
Reagan
el Salvador
London
Ward's Pet Shop
Rapture believer presses on as noon passes in belief
Tucson, AP: Bill Maupin, 51, founder of Lighthouse Gospel Tract Foundation, remains confident his prophecy about the rapture will unfold despite the missed noon deadline. He cites biblical signs including regional war and Israel's Lebanon and Damascus actions, saying events themselves prove the outcome.
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Tucson
Ariz
Bill Maupin
Israel
Lebanon
Damascus
Syria
Jesus Christ
Arizona
Middle East
Maupin
Elizabeth
Lighthouse Gospel Tract Foundation
New Zealand
Canada
Economic pinch felt in small Kansas towns by farm downturn
Keith Parkerson, a Ness City area businessman, closed his Chevrolet Buick Olds and International Harvester dealership as drought and rising costs hit farmers. The piece notes wider impacts across Kansas towns, with farm income lagging, interest rates up, and thousands pressuring lawmakers for wheat pricing relief. The story frames Parkerson's experience as representative of rural business strain amid changing agriculture.
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Cindy Schwartz
Kansas
Keith Parkerson
Parkerson
Topeka
Ness City
International Harvester Co
Plains
Pratt
Clyde
Cullison
McPherson
McCracken
Kalvesta
Emporia
Garden City
Gardner
Erickson
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Jesse
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