Phelps group to picket Shepard funeral in Wyoming hate case
The Kansas Phelps crusade is set to target the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming student murdered in a hate crime. The piece argues this adds to Kansas’ tarnished image as Topeka extremists fuel controversy amid Laramie’s grief and calls for better civil rights action.
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Kansas
Fred Phelps
Wyoming
Matthew Shepard
Laramie
Topeka
Phelps
Shepard
Phelps Group
Lawrence
Kansas University
Wyo
Wyoming University
Landmark historical events on notable dates
On Oct 16 1978 Cardinal Karol Wojtyla became Pope John Paul II. In 1793 Marie Antoinette was beheaded during the French Revolution. John Brown led a Harper's Ferry raid in 1859. Margaret Sanger opened NYC’s first birth control clinic in 1916. In 1946 Nazi war criminals were hanged at Nuremberg. The Cuban missile crisis began in 1962 and China tested its first atomic bomb in 1964.
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Roman Catholic Church
Karol Wojtyla
John Paul II
Marie Antoinette
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
Margaret Sanger
New York City
Kennedy
uDa
China
Starr the centerpiece in Democrats plan to grill Ken Starr
Washington column argues Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee want Starr to testify publicly about the Clinton sex scandal, testing his methods and potential witness credibility. The piece notes political risk for both parties, with Hyde defending Starr and Conyers prepared to use subpoena power.
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Washington
Ken Starr
House Judiciary Committee
Starr
Dems
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Conyers
Barney Frank
D-Mass
Henry Hyde
Hyde
CNN
White House
Lewinsky
Clinton
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Senate
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Congress
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Richard Porter
Paula Jones
Atty
Gen
Janet
Reno
Tripp
Monica
New York
Lucianne Goldberg
Vernon Jordan
Betty Currie
Bill
Prez
Rupert Murdock
Roseanne
The
National Enquirer
Arkansas
Ken
Sandy Grady
Philadelphia Daily News
Hollings Faces GOP Challenge as Last Southern Democrat
David Shribman notes Sen. Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, the last old Southern Democrat in the Senate, aging but still influential as a Republican insurgency grows in a changed state. Hollings, once a segregationist governor, aided integration, backed education funding, and now faces a rising Greenville congressman Bob Inglis while Thurmond nears 96.
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8.C
Senate
Chamber
Fritz Hollings
South Carolina
Ernest F. Hollings
South
New South
Hollings
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Allen J. Ellender
Louisiana
James O. Eastland
Mississippi
John L. McClellan
Arkansas
John J. Sparkman
Lister Hill
Alabama
Eastland
Agriculture
Armed Services
Banking
Foreign Relations
Labor
Post Office
Treasury
Washington
the Citadel
Charleston
Bill Clinton
White House
Bob Inglis
Greenville
Duke
Virginia
Clinton
Strom Thurmond
Thurmond
David Shribman
Boston Globe
Errant neighbors raise concerns over weekend KU student behavior
Lenette Hamm writes to the Journal-World from the Dread neighborhood describing seven years of resident patience with student neighbors. She cites weekend parties, drunkenness, public urination, litter, illegal parking, and dangerous conduct, urging police and city action to curb the disturbances.
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Ninth
Mississippi
Lenette Hamm
Ala
KU loan approved for Kansas Union expansion
Chancellor announces Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency funding for a six story Kansas Union addition in a project costing about 1 million dollars with 800 thousand from federal sources. A homemade bomb found in Strong Hall basement was deemed harmless. experts doubted it could have detonated.
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Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency
Kansas Union
Strong Hall
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Dolph Simons III
Dan Simons
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