Ordinary People Tops Oscar Honors in A Subdued Year
Hollywood reports a restrained 58th Academy Awards with Ordinary People winning best picture and four awards. Robert De Niro and Sissy Spacek earned best actor and actress for Raging Bull and Coal Miner’s Daughter. Robert Redford and Timothy Hutton won directing and supporting actor. Alvin Sargent took screenplay adaptation. Tess scored three craft awards.
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Robert de Niro
Sissy Spacek
Robert Redford
Timothy Hulton
Redford
Hutton
Jim Hutton
Alvin Sargent
Tess
Ben Hurt
Wichita Chief Calls Courts Key to Curb Crime
Wichita Police Chief Richard LaMunyon says the 20 percent crime rise in 1989 reflects strain across the justice system, not just policing. He criticizes the penitentiary and furlough policies, urging accountability and harsher, quicker sentences to reduce burglaries and larceny.
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Wichita Chief
Wichita
Kan
Richard LaMunyon
LaMunyon
Topeka
Kansas
FBI
Kansas City
Pipeline Plans Move Forward Across Kansas To Arkansas
Energy Transportation Systems Inc of Tulsa reports coal slurry pipeline plans from Wyoming to Arkansas with construction hoped to start in 1983 and finish by 1985. The project includes 273 miles across Kansas with 38 inch pipe, two pumping stations, and environmental work costing about 70 million dollars. ETSI, backed by Bechtel, Atlantic Richfield and others, has easement options on land in multiple counties and aims to bury the line under tracks after railroads’ opposition faded.
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Topeka
Kan
Energy Transportation Systems Inc
Tulsa
Kansas
Wyoming
Arkansas
J.W. Kames
ETSI
Komes
Duane
Pete McGill
Winfield
McGill
Kansas House
Norton
Graham
Trego
Ellis
Rush
Barton
Stafford
Reno
Kingman
Harper
Carlin Signs 11 Bills Including Rail Easement to Lawrence
Gov. John Carlin signed 11 bills into law, most technical in nature. One grants Lawrence an easement to extend its nature rail along state land to beyond the water plant. Another allows rural water districts to pay 9 percent interest on interim financing. A further measure clarifies school attendance residence, noting foster parents and guardians as official residences for schooling.
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Topeka
Kan
John Carlin
Lawrence
Kansas River
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