Panamanian leader stages PR push for visiting U.S. senators
General Omar Torrijos orders a lavish four day tour to sway seven U.S. senators led by Majority Leader Robert Byrd. The trip aims to win votes on the canal treaty by showcasing Panama’s culture and hospitality and to counter civil rights concerns. The plan includes a village festival, San Blas island visit, and a stop at Farallon. The treaty would transfer canal control to Panama by 2000 with joint defense and operation thereafter.
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Panama
Omar Torrijos
U.S
San Blas Islands
Farallon
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Air Force
Torrijos
Senate
United States
Soviet Activists Seek Ban on Death Penalty in Russia
A group of Soviet human rights activists led by six Amnesty International members petitions parliament to abolish capital punishment on the 60th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The push, backed by 23 others including Andrei Sakharov, cites Moscow’s secrecy and cites existing laws permitting executions for murder hijacking and serious crimes.
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Moscowap
Kremlin
Soviet Union
Amnesty International
Andrei D. Sakharov
Austrian businessman Palmers kidnapped near Vienna villa
Austrian businessman Walter Palmers, head of a clothing chain, was abducted from his car near his Vienna villa in a fashionable district. Police say he was dragged into a second car at night. A ransom demand of 3 million dollars was found in the vehicle, with no political motive indicated.
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Vienna
Austria
Walter Palmers
Palmers
Demand Key Factor In Agriculture
Eugene A. Leonard, former St. Louis Fed official and Mercantile Bancorporation executive, told a National Agri-Marketing Association meeting that in a free system demand would drive profits similarly to other businesses. He said demand sustains production, rewarding efficient producers while marginal and submarginal growers struggle.
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Kansas City, Mo
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Eugene A. Leonard
The
Reserve Bank
Mercantile Bancorporation
St. Louis
Leonard
National Agri- Marketing Association
Teasdale signals push to back Alberta Slavin Senate sponsor
Gov. Joseph P. Teasdale said he will travel the state to find a Senate sponsor for consumer advocate Alberta Slavin and pressed for a public vote on her confirmation. He also discussed school funding reform, energy conservation steps, and rural physician recruitment at public forums in Sikeston and Poplar Bluff, with panel members from multiple state departments.
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Joseph P. Teasdale
Senate
Alberta Slavin
Public Service Commission
Teasdale
Slavin
Alberta
Carolyn Ashford
State Department of Natural Resources
Lke
Southeastern
Ashford
Jack King
Department of Labor and Industrial Relations
Jack Runyon
Department of Agriculture
Steven Bradford
James Sullivan
Department of Consumer, Affairs, Regulation and Licensing
Trial Set For Operator Of Boys Camp
Ella Green, charged with child molestation, will face trial November 18 in St. Charles County Circuit Court. Green runs a boys camp on University of Missouri Weldon Springs property under a long running agreement. The case will be prosecuted by Attorney General John Ashcroft's staff with Judge Lawrence Davis presiding.
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Ella Green
St. Charles County
St. Charles
Green
University of Missouri At
Weldon Springs
Jack Parsons
John Ash
Croft
Franklin County
Lawrence Davis
Attorney General’s Office
Parsons
Lost Valley
University
Boy Scouts
Warren
Lincoln
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