Late flourish enhances legislative ledger
Rep Bettie Sue Shumway reports on the 1989 Kansas legislative wrap-up session. She notes productive adjournment, conference committees negotiating major issues, and education funding gains including school finance adjustments and the Margin of Excellence program. She critiques new Kansas City campus expansion and community college funding, while highlighting a broad social service package and unresolved fights over highway funding, prison reform, redistricting, sales tax, gas line safety, and the state water plan.
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Senate
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Regent’s Center
Overland Park
Community Colleges
Washburn University
Kansas City
Regent’s
Kan
Sas City
Johnson County Community College
Kansas City Community College
Missouri
State University
University of Kansas
Slow but steady gains in cancer battle outlined
Irvine(AP) Progress against cancer is slow but advancing on multiple fronts. Experts note a rise in five-year survival since 1930, with hopes for early detection, genetic testing, tumor suppressor genes, and targeted therapies. seminars highlight tests for vulnerability, mammograms risk assessment, anti-oncogenes potential, overcoming chemo resistance, and safer high-dose regimens.
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Irvine
Calif
Harold Freeman
American Cancer Society
National Cancer Institute
J. Paul van Nevel
Environmentalists fault Bush on environment promises and oil policies
Washington environmental leaders say Bush's pro environment rhetoric lacks substance amid Alaska spill response and cabinet nominations. They praise Reilly at EPA but condemn slow spill cleanup, continued oil exploration, and Interior picks. They urge stronger action on endangered species and Boston Harbor comparisons intensifying pressure.
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Bush
Jack Lorenz
Isaak Walton League
Bish
Governmnt
Two Forks
Colorado
California
Florida Everglades
Alaska National Wildlife Refuge
Alaska
Prince William Sound
US Coast Guard
Alaska National Wildlife
James Cason
U.S. Forest Service
Cason
Soviet submarine sinks with 69 aboard. 42 dead
Tass reports two nuclear tipped torpedoes aboard the Soviet submarine that sank in the Norwegian Sea. Forty two of the 69 sailors were killed as the vessel caught fire and went down after being towed by a rescue ship. The reactor was shut down during the accident and no radiation threat was detected or expected. Norwegian officials monitor deep water for years while rescuers ferried survivors to hospital.
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Norway
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Bush
Brent Scowcroft
Nbc-Tv
Meet the Press
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New York
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Massachusetts
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