Jayhawks celebrate successful KU basketball seasons
Kansas University fans toast a strong year with a 35 4 men’s season despite a second round exit and a Sweet 16 bid for the women. Roy Williams and Marian Washington praised for program integrity, graduation success, and lasting impact as the Jayhawks pursue a Final Four in Kansas City.
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Kansas University
Jayhawk
Tulane
Iowa
Arkansas
Oakland
Calif
Lawrence
Rhodesland
Kansas
Marian Washington
Roy Williams
Williams
Kansas City
On This Day in History March Eighteen Highlights
On March 18 many events are noted including Grover Cleveland's birth in Caldwell New Jersey in 1837, Gandhi's 1922 prison sentence and release after two years, Schick Inc marketing the first electric razor in 1931, a deadly gas explosion at a New London Texas school in 1937, Mussolini meeting Hitler at the Brenner Pass in 1940, Eisenhower signing Hawaii statehood in 1959, a 1962 France Algerian rebels truce, and Aleksei Leonov's 1965 first spacewalk outside Voskhod II for twenty minutes.
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United States
Grover Cleveland
Caldwell
Britain
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India
Schick Inc
New London
Tex
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Brenner Pass
Germany
France
Eisenhower
Hawaii
Aleksei Leonov
Kathleen Willey Affects Clinton With Women's Support Question
Washington columnist Sandy Grady reports that Kathleen Willey, once a Clinton supporter now a key accuser, could destabilize Bill Clinton’s political base as 5 million viewers watched her 60 Minutes interview. The piece weighs credibility, White House spins, and the risk of women wavering in 1996.
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Gennifers
Paulas
Monicas
Jane Dees
Bill Clinton
Clinton
Kathleen Willey
Willey
Anan
CBS
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White House
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Prez
Bob Dole
Clarence Thomas
Bob Packwood
National Organization For Women
Patricia Ireland
Ireland
the Prez
Packwood
Oregon
Ken Starr
Sandy Grady
Philadelphia Daily News
Vacuum in Washington and world shifts in the post Cold War era
Georgie Anne Geyer argues the Clinton administration creates a political vacuum as major powers move ahead. She notes Puerto Rico status vote, NATO expansion, Israeli-Palestinian tension, Kosovo, Iraq, and Russia as examples of a world changing without U.S. leadership. The piece criticizes defining American interests by jobs over global influence.
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White House
America
Bill Clinton
Presidency
House of Representatives
Puerto Rico
NATO
Poland
Czech Republic
Hungary
Prim
Benjamin Netanyahu
PLO
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian Authority
Americ
Israel
West Bank
Gaza
Netanyahu
Kosovo
United Nations
Moscow
Yevgeny Primakov
Belgrade
Lso
Boris Yeltsin
U.N
Iraq
China
Asia
Iran
United States
Russia
Milosevic
Georgie Anne Geyer
Universal Press Syndicate
Journal-World Postal and circulation note
Postmaster address changes go to the Journal-World in Lawrence Kansas. Notices include periodicals postage paid at Lawrence and acknowledgment as a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations and Associated Press.
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P.O
Lawrence
Kan
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Women deserve support for KU basketball progress
Sushila Shenoy says KU women deserve respect after their Sweet 16 run, noting disappointment over the men’s NCAA exit and urging fans to back the women through the rest of their postseason. She emphasizes the women’s athletic excellence and the need for continued local backing.
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Journal World
Kansas
Sushila Shenoy
Kansas Jayhawks Win Support from Local Reader
To the editor Jo Potestivo cheers for the Kansas University women's team as the only Big 12 club to reach the NCAA Sweet 16. The letter expresses pride and promises to watch and cheer this weekend. The note is signed with an address at 1119 NJ.
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Kansas University
Jayhawks
Jo Potestivo
Debate Over Special Needs Schooling At Lawrence Alternative High
A reader criticizes district policy on special needs education, arguing that moving students with disabilities from home schools to Lawrence Alternative High School is unjust. The letter questions least restrictive settings, inclusion, and adequacy of trained staff, urging true mainstreaming and individualized support. The writer cites past inclusion, calls for proper settings and qualified teachers.
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Lawrence Alternative High School
Lawrence
Pey Wiese
Seven Downtown Lawrence Firms Damaged by Early Fire
An early morning blaze in downtown Lawrence damaged seven firms starting at George Martin Hobby and Toy Shop and spreading east along the 800 block of Massachusetts to Larry Crum's Music Shop Manley Insurance Owens Retail Liquor Store Kraft's Annex and the old Central Hotel. No cause has been determined.
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Lawrence
George Martin Hobby and Toy Shop
Massachusetts
Larry Crum
Music Shop
Manley Insurance
Owens Retail
Kraft’s Annex
Old Central Hotel
Students hold March 18 1898 meeting for Cuban relief
On March 18 1898 a mass meeting of university students was held in Fraser Hall at noon to raise aid for starving Cubans at Mantanzas. The Lawrence World quoted Chancellor Snow urging liberal contributions to relieve recontradoes prisoners in fortified Cuban towns under oppressive Spanish rule. Courtesy Watkins Community Museum.
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Mantanzas
Lawrence World
Snow
Cuba
Watkins Community Museum
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