Reagan rejects crimes for Iran arms pardon bid
Former White House aide Regan testifies Reagan shot down a pardon for Iran-Contra figures Poindexter and North, then backed the plan, while Defense Secretary Weinberger says he opposed secret arms sales since 1985. Both say they were kept in the dark as hearings probe the affair and politics. Reagan brushes aside calls for pardons and plans a fall news appearance after hearings.
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White House
Donald Regan
Reagan
John Poindexter
Oliver North
Regan
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Iran
Weinberger
Marlin Fitzwater
Venice
Poindexter
North
Bridgeton Loads Oil After Gulf Tanker Crash Killings
The Bridgeton, a 401000 ton tanker, began loading oil after a mine strike caused a hole in its side. A U.S. Navy helicopter crash killed one and left three crewmen missing while five were rescued. Britain and the Netherlands said they would not send minesweepers. Iran warned the United States to withdraw from the Gulf or face attack. The Bridgeton had docked at Sea Island and loading was delayed by rough seas.
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U.S
Persian Gulf
Great Britain
Netherlands
Gulf
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Ali Khamenei
United States
Iran
Sea Island
London
Foreign Office
LaSalle
U.S. Mideast
Pentagon
Bahrain
Kansas movie shoots near Clinton Dam and Lawrence
A film crew shot a moving car scene for the movie Kansas near Clinton Dam on Thursday. Leslie Hope plays Lori Bayles, Clint Allen her boyfriend, while Andrew McCarthy portrays Corey Wade. Matt Dillon stars as ex-con Doyle Kennedy who coerces Wade into a bank robbery. Filming began in and around Lawrence on Wednesday with other shoots in Valley Falls.
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Kansas
Leslie Hope
Lori Bayles
Clint Allen
Lawrence
Lori
Corey Wade
Andrew McCarthy
Matt Dillon
Doyle Kennedy
Wade
Valley Falls
Funds set up to aid family after wreck
A train pickup truck collision in Williamstown killed Linda Taylor 37 and her three daughters Marcel 6 Maryjean 4 Clare 8, injuring two sons Benedict 12 and Adam 14 while Cameron 15 survived. National Transportation Safety Board investigators finish on-site today as KU, Perry, and St Marys friends establish funds. Local family remains in Lawrence Memorial Hospital with leg and laceration injuries. Linda died after surgery in Kansas City.
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Williamstown
Perry
Kansas University
St. Marys
James Taylor
St. Marys Academy
Taylor
Benedict
Adam
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Cameron
Linda Taylor
Marcel
Maryjean
Clare
Rex Taylor
LMH
Fauntroy Inspires INROADS Students With Song
U S delegate Walter Fauntroy delivered a 45 minute keynote at the INROADS National Training Institute in Hoch Auditorium, singing The Impossible Dream to move students and emphasize that individuals can influence social justice. He warned the U S could drop to a secondary world power if its financial base declines, risking leadership in diplomacy and other areas.
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Hoch Auditorium
Fauntroy
U.S. House of Representatives
George Bush
Inroads
National Training Institute
Kansas University
Charles Storey
United States
U.S
Officials uproot 540 marijuana plants near Baldwin
Law officers seized about 540 Sinsemilla plants and irrigation gear in a well tended plot about a mile east of Baldwin. About 7 am, five Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents and 10 Douglas County sheriff's officers found no one at the site and made no arrests. Investigators seek owners while preparing to destroy evidence. a few plants may be saved for records.
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Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Douglas County Sheriff’s
Dist
Jim Flory
KBI
Kansas
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration
George Clemente
DEA
Kansas City
Rick Trapp
Trapp
Lawrence Sees 100 Degree Heat Spikes Power Use
Lawrence endures record heat with temperatures near 100 degrees as residents run air conditioners and faucets. KPL Gas Service reports a peak demand of 1,897 megawatts at 5 p.m. Thursday, surpassing Tuesday’s 1,865 megawatts. The 24 hour period delivered 36,102,000 kilowatt hours, beating the 1983 high of 35,349,000.
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Lawrence
T.A. Mindrup
KPL Gas Service
KPL
Kansas Court of Appeals voids weed case over fence search
Trego County Sheriff Dean Ochs climbed a barbed wire fence to peer over a 6 foot wooden barrier and observed marijuana plants. The Kansas Court of Appeals reversed Lawrence Waldschmidt Jr.’s conviction, ordering a new trial, ruling the look over was an unlawful warrantless search of the curtilage and negating plain view as a valid basis for evidence.
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Trego County
Dean Ochs
Kansas Court of Appeals
Lawrence Waldschmidt Jr
Ogallah
Waldschmidt
Ochs
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