Editorial analysis on Soviet reform and Gorbachev
The piece argues Russia’s parliament backs a bold reform program while Mikhail Gorbachev promises to secure two-year improvements. Analysts doubt rapid turnaround given chronic shortages, weak infrastructure, and bureaucratic inertia. It compares postwar German rebuilding to Eastern Europe’s need to start from scratch amid upheaval.
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Russia
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Gorbachev
Europe
Soviet Union
Gorbachev and Co
Kansas University
Jaroslaw Piekalkiewizc
Germany
Eastern Europe
East Germany
West Germany
Old home town debates at Wolf Creek plant near Burlington
The Wolf Creek nuclear plant, not yet operational, stirs controversy with environmental groups in Lawrence while slated to go on line around 1983 or 1984. Farmers in Douglas County endure drought and rising hopes as rains improve milo and soybeans after a harsh July 1980. KU Chancellor Wescoe outlines a vast academic master plan for growth in the university's second century. Miss Kansas Debbie Bryant delays college to serve as Miss America while Mimi Frink becomes Miss Kansas. An 1890 Lawrence Journal-Tribune note recalls electric-powered taxis beginning to appear in American cities.
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Wolf Creek
Burlington
Lawrence
Douglas County
Kansas University
Clarke Wescoe
Wescoe
Debbie Bryant
Overland Park
Kansas
September History Bites Notable 1940 Draft Act Passed
Fifty years ago on September 14 1940 Congress enacted the Selective Service Act creating the first peacetime draft in U S history. Also noting Aaron Burr's acquittal in 1807 and other events including Moscow burning in 1812 and Fort McHenry bombardment inspiring The Star Spangled Banner in 1814. President McKinley died in Buffalo in 1901 from gunshot wounds.
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U.S
Aaron Burr
Moscow
Napoleon Bonaparte
Francis Scott Key
Fort McHenry
Maryland
William McKinley
Buffalo
N.Y
Syria could emerge as pivotal Middle East player
Secretary Baker's Damascus visit signals a byproduct of the Persian Gulf crisis as Syria moves from isolation to a potential central diplomatic role. Assad, realism over megalomania, may back talks with Israel under a U S Soviet umbrella, with Egypt and Saudi Arabia, aiming for peace under UN 242.
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Syria
Middle East
Boston
Baker
Damascus
Hafez al-Assad
Sadat
Israel
Bush
Assad
United States
State Department
Iraq
Kuwait
Soviet Union
Europe
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
U.S
Edward P. Djerijian
Boston Globe
Shamir
Moscow
Washington
Persian Gulf
United Nations
Jerusalem
Sinai
Golan Heights
Gulf
Mayor Dinkins Anger Policy Frights NYC Louts and Hoodlums
A staged interview reveals louts and hoodlums fear the mayor’s shift to anger in public condemnations. Louts say the move could stall their operations, while hoodlums call the policy unfair and sensationalized on TV. Low-lifers see a chance for newfound street respect as public scorn shifts.
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New York City
Dinkins
New York
Duces
Tom Dewey
Steinbrenner
War and TV: How would Hitler fare?
A vivid dialogue imagines televised interviews with Adolf Hitler and other Nazi figures as if World War II had begun in the TV era. It satirizes media eagerness for ratings, Eichmann, Goebbels, Himmler, Goering, Mussolini, and Roosevelt, highlighting Hollywood style interviews and network negotiations.
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Hitler
Tommy
Joan
Berlin
Sudetenland
Joanie
Joseph Goebbels
Goebbels
CBS
Hermann Goering
Goering
Heinrich Himmler
Hugh Downs
Himmiler
Adolf
Connie Chung
Austria
Sam Donaldson
U.S
Dan Rather
Fuehrer
Poland
Roosevelt
States
Adolf Eichmann
Germany
Tom Brokaw
Jesse Jackson
Ministry of Propaganda
Benito Mussolini
Geraldo Rivera
Pan Am
Waldorf-Astoria
Max Schmeling
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Old Home Town
Mimi Frink
Watkins Museum
Lawrence Journal-Tribune
America
Pittsburgh
Dol Dolph C. Simons Jr
Ralph Gage
Gene Armstrong
Robert Nordyke
Caroline Trowbird
Ann Gardner
Dolph Simons
Ili
Donne Wiley
Dallas Dolan
Keith Foutz
Journal-World
Litor
Adv
Simons
Simons Sr
the World Company
Sixth and
New Hampshire Streets
Kan
Kansas Counties
Kansas City
P.O
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Saddam Hussein
Anthony Lewis
School IN Armor
Russell Baker
Art Buchwald
Albert Speer
Adolf Hitler
Ted Koppel
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