Ice storm coats Lawrence streets on New Year weekend
A Friday night ice storm glazed streets in Lawrence and eastern Kansas with slippery conditions. Meteorologists warned of more frozen precipitation Sunday night into Monday morning as crews worked through the night spreading salt and sand on main roads and neighborhoods. Six ice related accidents reported in Lawrence with no injuries as city and county crews battle the glaze.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Don Rogers
U.S. Weather Service
Topeka
Earl Silvers
Silvers
Douglas County
Frank Hempen
Douglas County Public Works
Home building on record pace in Lawrence 1992
Lawrence set a city record for single family permits in 1992 with 452 for the year, after 42 issued in December. Total permits across all construction reached 2,041, with a projected valuation of 73.7 million dollars, surpassing prior yearly totals though not the 1988 valuation record.
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Lawrence Home Builders
Gene Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy
Clinton
Baby Bust: LMH births dip in 1992 at Lawrence Memorial
Lawrence Memorial Hospital recorded 848 births in 1992, down almost 100 from 1991, part of a three year Baby Bust linked to aging Boomers and physician turnover. Hospital spokeswoman Janice Early-Weas noted two physicians left in two years and 20 000 diapers were used for newborns. State counts show different totals for Lawrence births. See Baby, page 11A.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
LMH
Janice Early
Early- Weals
Lawrence
Lawrence Memorial
Bush and Yeltsin to sign major arms treaty in Moscow
In Moscow President Bush and Boris Yeltsin prepare to sign a historic arms control agreement limiting long range nuclear arsenals by two thirds over 10 years. Bush ends Somalia trip and will proceed to Paris after the Kremlin state dinner.
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Bush
Somalia
Boris Yeltsin
Sheremetyevo
Yeltsin
Kremlin
U.S
Barbara
James A. Baker
Paris
Francois Mitterrand
1992 Marks Third Consecutive Bank Failure Decline
Federal regulators report 1992 as the third straight drop in bank and S and L failures and the strongest year for the industry since 1985. The page features sections on comics, editorials, markets, movies, religion, society, sports, and TV listings across pages 1B and 2A.
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Access G
Religion Society
Health care reform named top Kansas priority
Lawrence legislator Sen elect Sandy Praeger says action can be taken in Kansas this year to curb rising health care costs. He expects health care to be a Clinton first 100 days priority, though Kansas Legislature will be out of session before that period ends.
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Kansas
Congress
Lawrence
Sandy Praeger
Praeger
Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee
Bill Clinton
Clinton
Serbs and Bosnians Face Talks in Geneva Hopeful Start
International mediators and Bosnian factions held a 90 minute first face-to-face session in Geneva. The meeting aimed at a peaceful settlement nine months into the war with Western leaders pressing for a division plan into ten provinces. Milosevic was absent.
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Bosnia
U.N. Security Council
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Slobodan Milosevic
Serbia
European Community
Lord Owen
Cyrus Vance
U.N
Vance
Owen
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