New KU chancellor Robert Hemenway chosen at last
Robert Hemenway was selected Saturday as Kansas University chancellor after a contested search. He will start by July 1, moving from Kentucky where he raised minority faculty, increased National Merit scholars, and kept student contact strong. The board cited fundraising, athletics, and running the Medical Center as priorities.
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Robert Hemenway
Hemenway
Kansas University
University of Kentucky
Lawrence
Kansas Board of Regents
Regents
Kentucky
del Shankel
Shankel
Gene Budig
Budig
Wescoe
Western Kansas
Kansas
Timelines mark key dates from 1788 to 1995 in brief
A chronology lists events from 1788 Connecticut ratifying the Constitution to 1995 reflections on NATO and democracy. Notable items include 1861 Mississippi secession, 1913 Nixon birth, 1964 Panama Canal Zone riots, 1968 Surveyor Seven Moon landing, 1980 Meccan Grand Mosque raids, and Reagan era arms talks.
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Lingayen Gulf
Philippines
Connecticut
U.S
Jean Pierre Blanchard
Philadelphia
Woodbury
Mississippi
Star of the West
Fort Sumter
S.C
Richard M. Nixon
United States
Yorba Linda
Calif
Anthony Eden
Panama Canal Zone
Saudi Arabia
Grand Mosque
Mecca
Reagan
Soviet Union
Clinton
Brussels
Belgium
NATO
Russia
Europe
Journal World masthead and staff at a glance
Journal World header lists editor publisher general manager and staff roles including operations manager new ventures controller production manager and post office box address in Lawrence Kansas. It notes USPS registration and AP and ABC memberships for the newspaper.
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the World Company
Sixth
New Hampshire
Lawrence
Kaw
Douglas County
Kansas Counties
Kansas City
United States
Dolph C. Simons Jr
Ralph Gage
Dolph Simons
Ili
Dan Simons
New Ventures
Donna Wiley
Dallas Dolan
Journal-World
P.O
Kan
Freedom beats repression as Russia leads over China
The piece contrasts Russia and China, arguing Russia’s democratic turbulence shows vitality while China’s regime tightens under Deng Xiaoping's era. It notes Yeltsin's siege of Grozny, world reaction, and reforms by Yavlinsky, vs Beijing’s crackdown on dissent, Wei Jingsheng’s imprisonment, and internal power struggles. It concludes Russia is in better political shape.
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Washington
China
Russia
Boris Yeltsin
Moscow
Grozny
Chechnya
Yeltsin
Helmut Kohl
Bill Clinton
Afghanistan
Grigory Yavlinsky
Pavel Grachev
Vietnam
Deng Xiaoping
Beijing
Wei Jingsheng
Sakharov
Deng
Yang Shangkun
Liu Hoagqing
Jiang Zemin
Li Peng
Zhu Rongji
Hu Jintao
Qiao Shi
People’s Congress
Newt Gingrich
Mao
South Africa Finds Hope Amid Transforming Nation
South Africa's transition shocks white South Africans who once backed apartheid yet now celebrate new freedoms. While euphoria grows over the end of apartheid, experts warn social change has barely begun. A new National Unity government faces vast tasks from housing to education to land restitution, with reform needing time and personnel shifts.
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Pretoria
South Africa
Joe Slovo
Communist Party
Land Claims Commission
Ciskei
Durban
Government of National Unity
Civ
Media egos inflate as Gingrich storm over CBS report
The piece argues media egos oversell the Gingrich Hillary Clinton quote episode. It notes Gingrich played the press, CBS botched promotion, and gotcha journalism fueled by Washington reporters. It laments manipulation over skepticism and urges better journalistic ethics.
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Connie Chung
Newt Gingrich
Hillary Clinton
Tribunes
Gingrich
CBS
Chung
Mrs. Gingrich
Atlantis
Washington
Old Home Town 1970 Land Value at KU Surfaces
A 1970 survey valued Kansas University's land and buildings well over $60 million. The piece notes a 1895 Lawrence World editorial condemning court delays as harmful to equity and costly, urging a remedy to speed litigation. Courtesy Watkins Community Museum.
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Kansas University
Lawrence World
Watkins Community Museum
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Dolph Simons Sr
Journal World
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John Taylor
Ann Gardner
Tom Fisher
Mark Chaney
W.C. Simons
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Il Service
Mbeki
African National Congress
Caspar Weinberger
Forbes Magazine
Old Home Town
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