Kassebaum urged troops for Somalia aid relief
In this editorial, the author notes U S Sen Nancy Kassebaum pressed for troop deployment to protect food relief in Somalia. She warned the risk was worth taking, and credit is given for steering U S attention to a failing U N effort and prompting armed intervention as a solution.
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Somalia
U.S
Nancy Kassebaum
Kassebaum
Senate
U.N
House
Bush
Sen. Kassebaum
United States
Health Insurance Association Breaks Ranks on Reform
The Kansas City Health Care Times reports the Health Insurance Association of America, based in Washington DC, now backs federal universal coverage with a basic benefit and capped business tax breaks. The move follows pressure and internal splits as major members like CIGNA Aetna MetLife exit the group while Travelers weighs options, signaling a fractured industry and a push to start the reform debate.
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Health Insurance Association of America
Trade Association
HIAA
Damascus
Clinton
CIGNA
Aetna
MetLife
Travelers
Kansas City
Midweek Christmas light woes end in self repair
A reader recounts a home holiday light fiasco and the process of elimination that restored a porch display. After checking fuses, receptacles, and plug-ins, a melted fuse on the first string revealed the fault, leading to restringing and a brighter block on Willow Street.
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Tim Allen
Loyalty to human decency amid ideological zeal
A critique of how good people can aid mass murderers through zeal and ideology. It warns that supporters across professions aided Stalin, Hitler, and present regimes, and argues that debt, foreign policy, and moral compromise threaten reformers, urging steadfast decency over corrupt ends.
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Josef Stalin
Adolf Hitler
China
Stalin
Hitler
Boris Yeltsin
Russia
Yeltsin
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Saddam Hussein
Tibet
Saddam
Small stock pushers eye renewed gains this year
AP analysis notes optimism for small cap stocks as January effects and improving earnings loom. Perritt cites low price earnings ratios, potential rebounds in health care and environmental sectors, and anticipated institutional buying as drivers of a new rally, with limited share availability amplifying impact.
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John Cunniff
New York
Standard & Poor
Gerald Perritt
Investment Horizons
Perritt
County considers rock spreading trailer purchase
A reader questions a $24,075 county purchase for a rock spreading trailer while lamenting a lack of funds for road rock. The critique notes deteriorated roads likened to plowed fields, high taxes, and thanks to columnist George Will for a syndicated article.
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George Will
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