Lawrence traffic growth prompts call for planned roadways
A Saturday column warns that Lawrence Douglas County traffic will worsen with growth and University activity. It urges local officials to study Clinton Parkway design, the Haskell Loop, an east bypass, and energy plant routes to manage higher volumes and ensure future traffic safety.
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Lawrence
Douglas County
Kansas University
Lawrence-Douglas County
Twenty-Third Street
Sixth Street
Iowa Street
Twenty-Third
Bccme
East Lawrence
15Th
Iowa
Kansas City
Clinton Reservoir
Clinton Parkway
Clinton
Eudora
Tonganoxie
Baldwin
Perry
Thay
Topeka
Ottawa
Leavenworth
Kasold Drive
Fifteenth Street
Kansas River
Haskell
Cult quintet convicted in death of 3 year old boy
In Yakima Washington a jury convicted Leon Cunningham Debra Weisba cher Carolyn Cunningham Velma Cunningham and Lorraine Edwards of manslaughter or assault for the exorcism death of 3 year old David Weisbacher The boy was found Sept 10 in a sealed room after an alleged daily beating to cast out the devil with the defendants claiming they spanked him to cleanse possession.
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Yakima
Wash
David Weisbacher
Leon Cunningham
Debra Weisbacher
Carolyn Cunningham
Cunningham
Velma Cunningham
Lorraine Edwards
Yakima House
Calm follows body removal in Kentucky mining disaster
In Owen Fork Kentucky the eight month wait ends as 11 miners bodies are brought out of Scotia Coal Co mine. Families plan funerals and survivors seek benefits while authorities begin a lengthy on site probe into the explosions that killed 26 men earlier. Rep Carl Perkins blames MESA and federal safety laxity for the deaths.
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Owen Fork
Harvey Sturgill
Sturgill
Hazard
Federal Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration
MESA
State Department of Mines and Minerals
Scotia Coal Co
Letcher County
Whitesburg
Carl Perkins
D-Ky
Arab peacekeeping army moves to seize Tripoli and Sidon
Reinforcements from Syria enter Lebanon as the Arab League led force plans to occupy Tripoli and Sidon, the country’s second and third largest cities, to bring most of Lebanon under peacekeeping control and end the 19 month war. An eight hour curfew is imposed on main highways to aid troop movement. Contingents from Saudi Arabia Sudan and Libya assist elsewhere. Palestinian factions including Saiqa clash with Yasir Arafat aligned groups in Beirut as Syria-backed forces press for influence.
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Lebanon
Syria
Tripoli
Sidon
Beirut-Damascus
Rashid Karami
Arab League
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
Libya
Yasir Arafat
Saiqa
Arafal
Hafez Assad
Arafat
Saiga
Ag unit may be key Carter target
Washington experts say the Agriculture Department could be a prime target in President-elect Carter’s plan to reorganize federal agencies. Ideas include moving the Bureau of Land Management to a restructured USDA and shifting FDA regulatory functions to a new Department of Food Agriculture and Rural Resources. Carter seeks authority to propose reforms quickly after January.
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Carter
Washington
Agriculture Department
Jimmy Carter
USDA
Bureau of Land Management
Interior Department
Food and Drug Administration
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Department of Food, Agriculture and Rural Resources
Congress
Department
Outlook
Hyde H. Murray
House Agriculture Committee
Kansas bill labeled consumer rip-off by KTLA president
Donald W. Vasos, president of the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, denounces a proposed product liability bill as a consumer rip-off. He says it extends the statute of limitations and lets out of state firms dodge accountability, harming Kansas workers and farmers.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Kansas Trial Lawyers Association
Donald W. Vasos
KTLA
Vasos
Kansas
Judiciary Committee
Wichita
U S and Soviet Union size up 200 mile fisheries offer
Washington reports progress toward a U S Soviet agreement tacitly recognizing U S rights to extend fisheries jurisdiction to 200 miles. Moscow had opposed the 12 mile limit and the talks foresee final Moscow approval with Carter's administration taking office soon.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Moscow
U.S
Jimmy Carter
Carter
U.S. Coast Guard
Japan
Landowners cry theft over Mexican land expropriation
In Mexico City wealthy landowners denounced the expropriation of 243,100 acres in Sonora by President Echeverria’s government, pledging court action to reclaim seized Yaqui Valley farms that account for a large share of wheat and cattle. They warned of production declines as campesinos occupy the land, following past deadly army removals.
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Mexico City
Luis Echeverria
Sonora
Arizona
Mexico
Francisco Borques
Farmers Association of
Agrarian Reform Secretary
Yaqui Valley
Echeverria
Campesinos
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Lawrence Area
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Committee On Product Liability
Vince Moore
Richita
New Jersey
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