Bush presses Serbia camps for international inspection
President Bush demanded that Serbs open detention camps in Bosnia to international scrutiny, saying the world cannot tolerate concentration camps. He avoided pledging unilateral U.S. military intervention and said any action would be with the United Nations.
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Jobless rate dips to 7.7 percent in July
The July unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent amid a 198,000 payroll gain the largest in over two years. About 60,000 of the jobs were temporary youth positions from a federal summer program tied to Los Angeles riots recovery. 9.76 million unemployed. President Bush welcomed the rise but warned of uncertainties.
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Robert Dederick
Northern Trust Co
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Employment Report
Los Angeles
Traveling carnival hires locals for Douglas County Fair rides
Stanley Shows brings about 15 attractions including The Spider The Zipper and The Typhoon to the Douglas County Free Fair in the southeast Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds. Local residents join as ride operators game booth workers and setup crews while traveling staff handle most of the year. Larry Hoopingarner and about a dozen area workers staff the rides and games as the company spends about a week at each location.
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Douglas County
Hoopingarner
Stanley Shows
Stanley
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Mark Stanley
Douglas County Free Fair
Great Bend
Williamstown
Douglas County Fair
Income break for 20 percent of college grads
The BLS finds one in five 1980s graduates held nondegree jobs, many low paid, with BA holders faring better. Nonprofessional job income stagnated or fell for over 5 million graduates, undermining the assumed wage payback of a degree. Economists advise careful investment like in business or stocks.
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David Bloom
Columbia University
Labor Department
Daniel Hecker
Kristina Shelley
Lawrence July permits dip as construction tightens
Lawrence construction slows in July with total permit value at 5,472,233 dollars. Gene Shaughnessy, chief building inspector, notes a busy pace earlier this year and explains builders are finishing existing projects, keeping activity steady rather than expanding.
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Lawrence
Gene Shaughnessy
Red Cross finds harsh conditions at Serb detention camps
International Red Cross officials report harsh conditions at Serb-run detention centers in Bosnia as new atrocity reports surface. Pierre Gauthier of the ICRC says no death camps found at this time, amid ongoing scrutiny.
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Bosnia
Pierre Gauthier
International Committee of the Red Crass
Paga
Suspect charged in S and L robbery in federal court
A Kansas City woman, Carol Ann Scroggins, 50, allegedly robbed Columbia Savings in downtown Lawrence about 11 45 a m then went to a local restaurant for beers and tacos. She faces a single count of bank robbery and was held without bond after a first appearance before U S Magistrate Ronald C Newman in Topeka with a detention hearing set for Tuesday.
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Lawrence
FBI
Robert Meredith
Scroggins
Columbia Savings
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