Editorials weigh military cuts and a looming job loss in Kansas
The Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant near DeSoto faces mothballing under defense cuts, possibly leaving about 350 workers without jobs. The piece argues that cutting bases is a national question with local consequences, while noting workers have time to plan. It also covers a Los Angeles postal worker charged after shooting a dog, raising questions about safety for delivery personnel and proportional penalties.
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Lawrence-Eudora-DeSoto
U.S
Sunflower Army
DeSoto
Defense Department
Kansas Army
Parsons
Hercules Inc
Kansas
Congress
Los Angeles Area
Floyd Sterling
Pacoima
Calif
San Fernando
U.S. Postal Service
Skippy
Tammy Brody
Arleta
Sterling
Salvatore P. Ciulla
David Lopez
Rover
Fido
Disputed site and funding split on nursing home plan
Douglas County and Kansans for the Improvement of Nursing Homes clashed over where a skilled care facility should be and how to fund it in Lawrence. In education news, Lawrence public schools could receive up to 153000 in direct aid from Johnson’s proposed program per Supt. Carl Knox. In 1964 the Douglas County District Court set a record with 122 divorces, reflecting a rising national trend, with some predicting one third of 1965 marriages ending in divorce.
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Douglas County
Kansans For
Lawrence
Lawrence Public Schools
President Johnson
Carl Knox
Douglas County District Court
Improvisationist path to power through February crisis
Gorbachev outlines improvisationist strategy to delay decisions, shift power from the Communist Party to the Soviet government, and stabilize the economy. He discusses shielding leadership from rivals, leveraging KGB support, engineering partial reforms, and shaping Europe to secure the Soviet Union’s recovery by the millennium as he faces February deadlines.
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Ryzhkov
Ligachev
Abalkin
Azerbaijan
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Moscow
Yeltsin
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Apparat
KGB
George Bush
U.S
U.S.S.R
Lenin
Europe
NATO
Russia
Brezhnev
CSCE
Oder- Neisse Line
Germany
Soviet Federation
Budget as a Washington story drives a year of coverage
A critical look at how the annual budget becomes a political narrative. It highlights revenue guesses, Gramm Rudman, off budget gimmicks, Read my lips promises, and the press’s appetite for a continuous budget story shaping public discourse and political blame over debt and taxes.
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GOP
Washington
Pentagon
Gramm-Rudman
Gramm
Rudman
Congress
Sinaglers
White House
Black leader sees hope for South Africa in Soweto
In Soweto journalist meets Wilton Mkwayi, 67, newly released after 25 years, who urged de Klerk to listen and urged world aid. Mkwayi notes a slow, 10-15 year horizon for change, predicts fewer ban era symbols and more practical work. He favors action over flag display.
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Soweto
South Africa
Victor
African National Congress
Wilton Mkwayi
Mkwayi
ANC
Nelson Mandela
China
F.W. de Klerk
Mandela
Mirwayi
de Klerk
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Ralph Gage
Gene Armstron
Robert Nordyke
Caroline Trowb
Ann Gardner
Dolph Simons II
Donna Wiley
Dallas Dolan
Keith Foutz
Adv
Vabliane
Simons
Fisher
Dolph Simons Sr
the World Company
Sixth
New Hampshire Streets
Kan
Kansas City
United States
Audit Bureau of Cireulations
Associated Press
P.O
Old Home Town
Gorbachev
Kryuchkov
CIA
Angleton
Red Army
Romanov
East
Yazov
William Safire
Dems
Russell Baker
Department of
P.W. Botha
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