Dalai Lama Wins Nobel Peace Prize in 1989
The exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama won the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for his non violent effort to free Tibet from China. The award drew praise from the Nobel Committee for his universal message while China condemned the decision as interference. The Dalai Lama, speaking in California, urged love and compassion and expressed a wish to attend the Oslo prize ceremony in December.
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China
Lhasa
Tenzin Gyatso
NTB
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Clifford Heinz
Newport Beach
California
Bakker Found Guilty of Defrauding PTL Followers
TV evangelist Jim Bakker was convicted on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy for selling fake partnerships at his ministry resorts to fund a lavish lifestyle. Jurors deliberated a day and a half before finding him guilty of diverting donations to buy Rolls Royces, gold fixtures, diamonds, and other luxuries. He faces up to 120 years in prison and $5 million in fines, with sentencing set for Oct 24. Bail set at $250,000.
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N.C
Jim Bakker
PTL
Bakker
Kansas City Times and Star to merge into single morning paper
The Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times will combine into one morning newspaper called The Kansas City Star. No publication date yet. no layoffs expected. Merger ends 109 years of afternoon publishing as market shifts to a single organized package.
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Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Times
James H. Hale
Hale
Joe McGuff
Kansas City Star Co
William Rockhill Nelson
Samuel E. Morss
Nelson
Morss
the Times
the Star
McGuff
Star Company
The
Star
Times
Cheney defends action in Panama
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney defended the U S role after rebels failed to force Gen Manuel Antonio Noriega from power in Panama. He said the coup leaders sought no guaranteed outcome and that Noriega urged surrender as loyalist forces crushed the uprising leaving casualties and curfews in Panama City.
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Dick Cheney
U.S
Panama
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Bush
Cheney
CBS
Noriega
Congress
Ike Skelton
D-Mo
House
Panama City
Ramirez jeers at LA jury verdict in death by gas chamber
On trial for 13 satanic murders, Night Stalker Richard Ramirez sneered at the Los Angeles jury’s verdict to die in the gas chamber. The report notes mild Friday weather with a high near 70 as the page highlights calendar, classifieds, comics, editorials, and sports.
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Richard Ramirez
Los Angeles
Disneyland
Health insurance costs rise for KU staff in 1990
Kansas University on the Lawrence campus will raise health insurance premiums by about 18 percent for 3,400 workers. Employee costs rise under two plans Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas and HMO Kansas with open enrollment from now through Oct. 31. State absorbs most of the hike. employees pay about $4.8 million more.
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Blue Shield of Kansas
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Richard Mann
Kansas
Shelby Smith
Health Care Commission
Smith
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Lawrence Campus
Sixth Street to open to two way traffic
Sixth Street in front of city hall will be opened to two way traffic Friday morning. City official Mike Wildgen said signals at Sixth and Massachusetts are finished and the two block stretch from Sixth and Massachusetts to Seventh and New Hampshire will allow two way traffic. The Chelsea Group project Riverfront Plaza, near city hall, prompted the change with a new parking garage entry at Sixth and New Hampshire. Riverfront Plaza opens next spring.
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Mike Wildgen
Sixth
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Seventh
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Street
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Lawrence Riverfront Plaza
Kansas River
Riverfront Plaza
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Clare Ct
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Andrea Landes
Tera Donnelly
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