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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1985
Page
7
A World Inside Highlights item notes that black South Africans receive backing from white students amid mounting pressures. The brief underscores cross-racial support reshaping domestic responses within the apartheid era.
A State Sheriffs Youth Ranch plan appears to stall on page 3, with officials reevaluating funding and community support. Details remain unclear as administrators seek alternatives while local groups weigh potential impacts and timelines.
Residents of the Marais des Cygnes River Basin may shape the 1986 water plan at a 7 pm Ottawa Middle School meeting sponsored by the Kansas Water Office. The MdCR Basin Advisory Committee will meet after to convert input into recommendations.
NASA prepared for a third attempt to launch the space shuttle Discovery from Cape Canaveral at 7:02 a.m. EDT Tuesday to deliver a satellite and attempt a rescue. Engineers certified the engines and a new computer, while weather concerns near Cuba and the Bahamas remained uncertain. If the launch misses by Wednesday the rescue plan would be abandoned due to Syncom satellite position.
Harvard 1600 freshmen sail Boston Harbor as migrants in a boat trip while Kansas adds waving the wheat lessons at Traditions Night. Colorado offers book discounts to mingle with faculty as colleges use outdoor and seminar programs to ease homesickness, drugs, and roommate issues.
Samantha Smith, famed peace youth, her father, and six others die in a Bar Harbor Airlines Beechcraft 99 crash near Auburn Lewiston airport. Officials identify victims later. Samantha had early fame from a Soviet visit invited by Yuri Andropov.
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