Cambodia horror stories told to House panel
The Carter administration links Khmer Rouge policy to tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of deaths since 1975. Officials testified that executions, famine, and disease killed many, with refugees providing most information from a government virtually sealed off from Southeast Asia.
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Cambodia
Washington
Carter
Charles H. Twining
U.S. Foreign Service
Tional Relations
Richard C. Holbrooke
Holbrooke
Twining
Khmer Rouge
Offen
Southeast Asia
City defers Southwest Plaza traffic plan after curb cut dispute
Lawrence city commissioners spent over two hours weighing the Southwest Plaza site plan for Safeway at 23rd Street and Iowa Street. They deferred a final decision for two weeks, directing developers to meet with planning staff to craft an acceptable traffic flow plan and possibly allow two curb cuts, a move opposed by staff as unsafe.
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Lawrence City
Southwest Plaza
23Rd Street
Iowa Street
Safeway
Marnie Argersinger
Jim Hewitt
Iowa
Hewitt
Clark
Rose
Binns
Ed Carter
Farm incomes fall hit implement dealers in Lawrence area
Farmers face poor crops and low prices as wheat sits near two dollars a bushel and corn at about one eighty. Dealers Theron Harper Elmer McConnell and Bob Johanning report down tractor and equipment sales with rising prices and inflation, while farmers struggle with credit and weather risks.
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Bill Brinson
Lawrence
Lawrence Implement
Theron Harper
Deems Farm Equipment Inc
Harper
McConnell Machinery Co
Elmer McConnell
McConnell
Bob Johanning
Johanning Implement Co
Johanning
City approves bonds for four sanitation trucks and bins
Lawrence commissioners authorize 150000 in bonds to purchase three 20 cubic yard packet trucks a roll off unit and about 30 metal bins to speed delivery. They also ban bottle rockets and begin architect interviews for three upcoming building projects including a senior center city hall and the old police HQ conversion.
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Lawrence
Sanitation Department
Wildgen
East Lawrence
Eighth
Vermont
Archbishop Fulton Sheen Undergoes Emergency Heart Surgery
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 82, underwent emergency open heart surgery in New York. Doctors described the operation as life saving with the prelate remaining stable but not out of danger. He is famed for the 1950s Life Is Worth Living program and retired in 1965 after a long tenure as bishop of Rochester.
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New York
Fulton J. Sheen
Lenox Hill Hospital
Rochester
el Paso
Ill
Catholic University of America
Sorbonne
Paris
U S to stay strong in Pacific amid Korea pullout
Defense Secretary Harold Brown told Japanese leaders that the United States will remain a strong Pacific power even as about 33 000 troops are withdrawn from South Korea. He met Prime Minister Fukuda and Foreign Minister Hatoyama to discuss the phased removal and U S policy on nuclear weapons was not publicly referenced.
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Tokyo
Harold Brown
United States
U.S
South Korea
Brown
Takeo Fukuda
Korea
Asia
Fukuda
Foreign
Iichiro Hatoyama
Defense Agency
Asao Mihara
Seoul
Hapdong
Park Chung-hee
North Korea
Park
Shuttle completes final piggyback test before solo flight
The Enterprise space shuttle finished its last piggyback test atop a Boeing 747 at Edwards AFB. Officials reported minor nuisance problems but said the flight was satisfactory as preparation for the August 12 free flight.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
National Aviation and Space Administration
Donald ‘Deke
Slayton
Fitzhugh Fulton
NASA
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Lon Nol
Barkley Clark
Jack Rose
23Rd
Don Binns
Binn
Dean Burkhead
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Firebird Club
Gray Turner
Leo Eisenberg Real Estate
Kansas City
Mike Wildgen
Pacific
China Post
Japan
Leonard Woodcock
United Auto Workers
China
Peking
Lawrence City Band
South Park
The
Musicians’ Union
City Parks and Recreation Department
Peggy A. Case
Emporia
Ms. Case
Robert Worden
Douglas County
SONY
Miss Lecyrongs
Arveund State
Massachusetts
Walt Disney Productons
Monte Carlo
Technicolor
Journal-World
Bill Hogle
C.L.A
9Th
Kentucky
State Farm
State Farm Life Insurance Company
Home Qlice
Bloomington
Ilinais
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