Dole outlines campaign agenda and GOP unity efforts
Senate Leader Bob Dole presses a balanced budget plan with smaller Medicare and Medicaid savings, seeks term limits and immigration reform, and hints at involving Colin Powell in the fall campaign. Separately, IRS records show Kansas and Missouri taxpayers face audits more often than criminal charges, with 1994 data noting 319 cases referred to the DOJ and 305 convictions.
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Colin Powell
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Missouri
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Abdal Rahman seeks aid over prison treatment
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. AP The Muslim cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman asks followers to voices to ease his alleged humiliating conditions at the U S Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield in a letter published in an Egyptian paper The 57 year old spiritual leader of Egypt's al Gamma al Islamiya was sentenced to life in prison on January 17 for seditious conspiracy and soliciting killings of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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Lordstown GM plant hit by first shift walkout over firing
Workers at the General Motors Lordstown assembly plant walked off the line in protest of their shop chairman's firing. The rally occurred Sunday, and officials did not immediately confirm the strike. The plant builds Chevrolet Cavaliers and Pontiac Sunfires, with limited impact on other GM lines compared to a prior Dayton strike.
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Ohio
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Legislators discuss Kansas school finance at Ottawa forum
State lawmakers debate school funding with Sen. Doug Walker and Reps. Ralph Tanner and Bill Feuerborn at a Farm Bureau and Chamber coffee. Tanner and Feuerborn push reducing the 35 mill levy while Walker backs higher education spending. Tanner calls for quick property tax relief for homeowners. Feuerborn favors replacing the levy with a sales or income tax mix. Continued on page 2.
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Doug Walker
D-Osawatomie
Ralph Tanner
R-Baldwin
Bill Feuerborn
Gannett
Farm Bureau
Ottawa Area
Tanner
Feuerborn
Walker
Coronado campsite found in Blanco Canyon Texas
Kansas archaeologist announces discovery of a Coronado expedition campsite in Blanco Canyon east of Lubbock Texas. The site yielded crossbow bolt tips Pueblo pottery horseshoes and a sword scabbard tip as evidence tying to the 16th century voyage and wintering camp.
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Associated Press
Ashington
Wes Kansas Archaeologist Today
Texas
Francisco Coronado
Donald Blakeslee
Wichita State University
Blanco Canyon
Lubbock, Texas
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Jimmy Owens
United States
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National Park Service
Albuquerque
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Ottawa Library celebrates National Library Week with online access
Ottawa public spaces invite patrons to log on during National Library Week April 14 to 20. The library offers Internet access with staff help in the reference area on the third floor, hours posted, and a call for reservations at 242 3080.
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Bill Tellier
Ottawa
American Library Association
Cheryl Sylvester
Ottawa Middle School Library Book Club
Ottawa Library
National Library Week
Western seeks merger with KC Power and Light
Western Resources Inc. announced a 1.7 billion bid to buy Kansas City Power and Light Co. aimed at blocking a KCPL UtiliCorp United merger. The plan, if approved, would create a two million customer utility from Kansas City to Australia and draw support from Western Resources’ leadership for stronger, broader rate cuts. KCPL has previously rejected Western Resources, with talks occurring in 1994 and ending that August.
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Western Resources Inc
Kansas City Power & Light Co
Topeka
Kan
KCPL
Western Resources
Securities and Exchange Commission
Random Acts 4 of Kindness Randall Allan family
At about midnight on February 26 the Allan family invited us into their home to regroup after a house fire They provided clothes and shoes until replacements arrived and organized relief efforts and food through their church Nominated by John and Kathy Peimann
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Allan
Randy
Kathy
Chad
Carrie
John
Kathy Peimann
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