Prescription help no cure all
Twelve years after a cornea transplant Betty Squires faces rejection of the donor eye. She relies on costly eye drops and multiple prescription drugs while living on under $900 monthly. Local officials note she is middle income and struggles to meet medicine costs as seniors seek aid programs.
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Aml Ruchainson
Journal
World Photo
Lawrence
Betty Squires
Squires
George Kinnard
Kansans approve 2001 budget bill compromise
Legislators passed a final $8.78 billion fiscal 2001 budget after a tobacco settlement funding dispute, ending weeks of talks between House and Senate negotiators. The measure, sent to Gov. Graves, increases spending about 1.8 percent from 2000 and directs funds to children health and education, with some shifts from disabled services to other sources.
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Topeka
House
Senate
Bill Graves
Richard Reinhardt
D-Erie
House Appropriations Committee
Graves
Kansas
Joint Conference
Career as executive didn’t prepare dean for life in academia
Tom Sarowski became Kansas University business dean in 1995 after a career at Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting and four years teaching at KU. Administrators, including provost David Shulenburger, praised his high level management background as he led the 50 faculty and 1,300 students.
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Tom Sarowski
Kansas University
Arthur Andersen& Co
Andersen Consulting
David Shulen+ burger
Sarowski
Fite
Texas A&m
William Fuerst
Thousands protest Elian seizure in peaceful Miami rally
Tens of thousands of Cuban-Americans marched through Little Havana protesting the Elian Gonzalez raid. Police kept distance as demonstrators carried signs against Clinton and Reno with no arrests. A separate Pembroke Pines gathering celebrated the reunion with Elian and his father, INS official Bob Wallis stating mission success.
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Miami
Havana
Elian Gonzalez
Clinton
Atty
Janet Reno
Elian
Bill. Schwartz
Pembroke Pines
Ellan
INS
Bob Wallis
WFOR
Wallis
Little Havana
Elian Gonzalez Honor Procession Reported in Havana
Cuban-American veterans groups and Lincoln-Marti School bands led a march in Little Havana with about 300 supporters and 50 former teachers classmates and parents carrying a six foot Elian banner. Mothers Against Repression joined with around 40 women in black.
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Lincoln-Marti School
Elian
Lazaro Gonzalez
Mothers Against
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