Doctor seeks 5000 to aid Gulf War victims not government
Dr Yolanda Huet-Vaughn, a Gulf War objector from Kansas City Kansas, paid a 5000 fine to the Kansas Board of Healing Arts and asks the board to waive the penalty and allot the money to Voices in the Wilderness and Veterans for Peace to aid Persian Gulf Syndrome victims and Iraqi children amid relief efforts. The board has not ruled yet, and state law would place fines in the general fund.
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Yolanda Huet-Vaughn
Kansas City
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Kansas State Board of Healing Arts
Huet- Vaughn
Fort Riley
United States
Huet-Vaughn
Kevin K. LaChance
Board of Healing Arts
LaChance
Kansas Board of Healing Arts
Persian Gulf
Army Reserve
Physicians For Social Responsibility
Hepatitis cases rise in Shawnee County Topeka area
Shawnee County Health Agency reports 14 hepatitis A cases in 1998 amid a threefold rise from the prior years. Dr. Larry Rumans notes four cases in 1997 and three in 1996, with about half concentrated in families. No common contagion site identified. emphasis on hand washing and sanitation to prevent infection.
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Health Department
Agriculture forecast predicts good times ahead for farming
A University of Missouri report from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute says long term global demand will lift U.S. agriculture, but farmers will face short term price declines. Increased supply from two years of good weather and post-1996 Farm Bill effects, plus China exports, push prices down while wheat acreage drops.
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Coumbia
University of Missouri- Columbia
Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute
U.S House
Senate
United States
Abner Womack
Womack
Southeast Asia
China
U.S
Kansas
Drifter arrested in ex-attorney's death near river
Edward D. Perkins, 29, held in Shawnee County Jail on 500000 bond after the death of former Kansas attorney Michael Lee Griffith, 53. Griffith, who had a troubled legal career, was found near a transient camp by the Kansas River.
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Kansas
Edward D. Perkins
Shawnee County
Michael Lee Griffith
Griffith
Kansas Supreme Court
Kay McFarland
Topeka
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