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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 2002
Page
4
Local record notes Steve Delaney and Bill Draper active since 1906 with coverage by gctelegram.com. Delaney and Draper are linked to the newspaper's historical archive as early figures in the publication.
St. Petersburg Times reports six months of detention for Mazen Al Najjar, a Palestinian father of three U.S. citizen daughters and former University of South Florida teacher. INS efforts to arrange deportation have failed. if no country agrees by Tuesday, lawyers will seek court intervention to release him from Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Sumter County.
Former U S president Jimmy Carter appeared on Cuban TV on Tuesday night urging the United States to lift the embargo. He backed Fidel Castro’s call for political and economic freedom in Cuba and predicted travel and trade would exceed pre 1959 levels once Castro departs. The Columbus Dispatch.
The piece argues that international students greatly aid American education and relations but stresses the need for the INS to deploy the electronic Student and Exchange Visitor Information System. It would connect embassies with INS ports of entry and 70,000 eligible schools, with a deadline to be operational by January 1, 2003.
President Bush warns in a speech to German lawmakers that terrorism is an axis of evil and a strategic threat to millions. In Milwaukee, Marquette Law School Dean Howard Eisenberg reacts to Archbishop Weakland’s $450,000 abuse settlement, urging Vatican action and resignation. Golf legend Sam Snead dies at 89, Curtis Strange recalls Snead’s hands and long career.
May 24 marks several notable events. Scott Carpenter orbited Earth aboard Aurora 7 in 1962 as the second American to do so. Victoria’s birth is listed for 1819, the Baltimore to Elliott's Mills railroad began in 1830, Morse opened America’s first telegraph line in 1844, and the Princess Victoria ferry disaster near London, Ontario, claimed about 200 lives in 1881.
A California woman with over 200 cats faces felony animal cruelty charges after inspectors found a urine soaked home so foul that firefighters wore protective gear. Separate abuse cases include a Missouri school board member forcing students to shovel manure and a Garden City incident where four kids dug through waste. A Star Wars racism debate follows as an Italian-looking Clone triggers heated commentary, while burglaries in Oregon and Nebraska end with suspects stealing underwear and pants left behind.
A columnist argues welfare reform exposes politics of motherhood and class. It contrasts stay at home moms with work driven welfare recaps, noting 79 percent of mothers with school age children work and 57 percent with infants. The piece criticizes scarce childcare funding and urges clear policy backing for working mothers while defending motherhood’s value.
The Enron affair spurred politicians to return or donate Enron related funds. Major donors include Tom Daschle John Kerry and Bob Smith. Schumer gave 68857 tied to Enron and Andersen. Andersen faced hearings over shredding documents amid DOJ probe.
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