Students Help Lift KU Image With Community Service
Editorial notes KU students often praised for giving back to Lawrence. It highlights holiday drives and year round acts of service such as parties for handicapped children, bell ringing for Salvation Army, highway cleanup, mentoring schoolchildren, and assisting seniors. The piece cites a story about a student who mentors a young man with mental handicaps, inspiring living groups to volunteer.
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Lawrence
Kansas University
Salvation Army
Journal-World
Kansas
Freed hostages praise Bush over handling of Gulf crisis
Former prisoners of Saddam Hussein describe Bush's actions as decisive and necessary. They credit Desert Shield rapid troop deployment and UN allied support for halting expansionism. They refute claims of oil influence and say without swift action they could have remained captives years. Past successes offer little guarantee for a stubborn Saddam.
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George Bush
Persian Gulf
Saddam Hussein
Bush
United Nations
Saddam
United States
Kuwait
Iraq
America
Letters to the editor stir faith and media critique
Readers criticize the BBC for banning Christmas music for troops in Desert Shield and urge reverence for Jesus Christ’s birthday. Hazel Carren reflects on Christian heritage and freedom, urging adherence to faith in public life.
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BBC
British Broadcasting Company
Desert Shield
Three Kings of Orient
R.F. Anthony
North St
Jesus Christ
Churchill Visits Washington for World War II Conference
In 1941 during the wartime alliance Churchill arrived in Washington to meet President Roosevelt for major strategic talks. In 1971 the UN General Assembly voted to ratify Kurt Waldheim’s election as secretary general.
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Winston Churchill
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United Nations General Assembly
Kurt Waldheim
Postal notice credits and associations listed
USPS 306 520 indicates second class postage paid at I and cites membership in the Audit Bureau and The Associated. The fragment notes organizational affiliations and standard mailpostage statements without further context.
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Audit Bureau of Cirs
Associated
Desperate voyagers and Beagle Channel legends
A sweeping historical vignette in the Beagle Channel tracing Magellan and Drake around Cape Horn, Darwin’s formative voyage with Fitzroy, Yamana tribes, and the shift from perilous circumvention to modern tourism. It notes Ushuaia as Tierra del Fuego’s gateway, historical ships, and the allure of solitary frontiers.
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Beagle Channel
Chile
Ferdinand Magellan
South America
Spice Islands
Argentina
Tierra del Fuego
Land of Fire
Straits
Pacific Ocean
Sir Francis Drake
Antarctica
Pampas
Peter Carder
Bahia
Lisbon
Portugal
Azores
Elizabeth I
Ushuaia
Darwin
Andes
Galapagos Islands
Fitzroy
Isthmus
Panama
Panama Canal
Magellan Straits
Lessons from Shevardnadze and Soviet shifts
Washington notes Gorbachev's guest teaching in California may follow. Shevardnadze could join the visiting scholar market, sharing Kabul to Kremlin intrigue while Baker mulls Princeton ties. Analysts weigh Brezhnev and Kohl doctrines as the Soviet collapse deepens, currency woes rise, and Moscow pursues reforms under an uncertain future.
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Washington
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Stanford
George P. Shultz
California
Gorbachev
Eduard A. Shevardnadze
Afghanistan
Kremlin
James A. Baker III
Princeton
Soviet Union
U.S
Moscow
World Bank
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Helmut Kohl
Kohl
Germany
Shevardnadze
Women in Politics Climb Faces a Persistent Struggle
The editorial argues women hold limited power globally and in Britain and the United States. It cites figures showing few female leaders, cabinet members, mayors, and legislators, while urging women to back female candidates until parity is achieved. It notes progress in some cities and states but emphasizes slow overall advancement.
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Umalatova
Mary Robinson
Ireland
Vigdis Finnbogandottir
Iceland
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Nicaragua
Corazon Aquino
Philippines
Britain
John Major
Labor
Margaret Thatcher
Land of Equal Opportunity
U.S. Mint
California
Illinois
Rhode Island
Lynn Martin
U.S
Center For the American Woman and Politics
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Hazel Carren
Babcock Place
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Ralph Gage
Gene Armstrong
Robert Nordyke
Caroline
P.O
Kan
the World Company
Linth and
New Hampshire Streets
Douglas County
Kansas City
Robert Fitzroy
H.M.S. Beagle
Charles Darwin
Port Famine
Disappointment Bay
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Last Hope Inlet
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Nurendy
Tonou
Andrew J. Glass
Cox News Service
Baker
White House
Gorbachev & Co
London
Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sazhi Umalatova
Caucasus
Congress of People’s Deputies
Maggie
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