Kansas Top Stories of 1991 Highlight Tornado and Thrift Scandal
Kansas annual wrap recounts nine months of hearings revealing 122 million in losses and 154 million in risky investments, a major pension overhaul push, and the deadly April 26 tornado that struck Andover killing 19. It notes the 1st Infantry Division’s Gulf War exploits, a Shawnee County school funding ruling, Gov Finney’s tax relief proposals, fraud cases at Peoples Heritage, a drought hit wheat harvest, Miss USA Kelli McCarty, a planned KG&E and KP&L merger, and damage claims for Hoch Auditorium rebuild at the University of Kansas.
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Kansas
Andover
Wichita
Golden Spur
Fort Riley
Mideast
Iraq
1St Infantry Division
National Guard
End of Gulf War and 1991 in Review Summary
A year-end retrospective catalogues 1991 events including the Gulf War ground campaign ending February 27 with heavy Iraqi losses and American fatalities, Soviet collapse and Yeltsin’s rise, Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court nomination hearings, Lebanon prisoner Terry Anderson’s release, 1991 economic woes, Warsaw Pact dissolution, AIDS crisis, Jeffrey Dahmer case, Middle East talks, the Rodney King tape impact, and LA police chief Daryl Gates stepping down in 1992.
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Iraq
Kuwait
United States
U.S
Desert
America
Saddam
Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
Crimea
Boris Yeltsin
Gorbachev
Moscow
Yeltsin
Thomas
Hill
Senate
Terry Anderson
Lebanon
Middle East
Jesse Turner
Terry Waite
Thomas Sutherland
Joseph Cicippio
Alain Steen
Anderson
The
George Holliday
Holliday
Los Angeles
Rodney King
Thhem
King
Daryl Gates
Castro balances radical stance with pragmatic shifts in Cuba
Castro alternates between militant rhetoric and pragmatic openness ahead of Gorbachov’s resignation. He insists on maintaining socialism and rejecting a return to capitalism while signaling some foreign investment and limited domestic entrepreneurship to diversify Cuba’s economy.
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George Gedda
Associated Press
Washington
Fidel Castro
Mikhail Gorbachev
United States
U.S
Castro
Cuba
Gorbachev
Gillian Gunn
Carnogie Endowment For International Peace
Marx
Engels
Lenin
Franklin County Planning Commission reorganized to county board
Legal notices announce the reorganization of the Franklin City County Planning Commission into the Franklin County Planning Commission with nine members. The body will serve as the Board of Zoning Appeals, adopt bylaws, set meeting rules, and oversee comprehensive planning, zoning, and subdivision regulations for Franklin County effective January 1, 1992. The action disbands township zoning appeals and sets terms, qualifications, and budgeting.
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Franklin City County Planning Commission
County Planning Commission
Board OF Zoning Appeals
Franklin City-Couny
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Ima
Govarning Body
Heraby
Frankin
Harrison
Lincoln
Ottawa
Townshipeharate
K.S.A
Board of Appeals
Township Boards of Zoning Appeals
Budge
Govarning
Board OF County Commissioners
Franklin County
Kansas
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Joan Finney
Peoples Heritage Federal Savings Association of Safina
Kelli McCarty
Liberal
Kansas Power and Light
Ning
University of Kansas
Curiiversity
Communist Party
Baltic States
Commonwealth of Independent States
Russia
Clarence Thomas
Thurgood Marshall
Supreme Court
Democratic Congress
Anita Hill
University of Oklahoma
IBM
General Motors
Federal Reserve
Bush
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Magic Johnson
Kimberly Bergalis
Jeffrey Dahmer
Milwaukee
Dahmer
Israel
Madrid
Korca
Union
U.S. Supreme Court
Earvin
Magic” Johnson
Jaffrey Dahmer
Madrd
Willan Kennedy Smith
Killeen
Texas
David Duka
Louisiana
Martha P. Hernande
Cecille Rose Bruner
Cecile Rose Bruner Stoddard
J.S. Bruner
John S. Bruner
John Bruner
Viola Bruner
Viola W. Bruner
Cacilla Rose Bruner
Ana Cacilla Rose Bruner Stoddard
John L Richeson
Anderson, Byrd, Richeson
Charles W. Navity, Jr
Gardner R- Hayden
Luroy Wasmund
Laura Sutton
Municipal
Auditorum Equipment Purchase Fund
Hopa
Sewar
Electrc Emea
C.D.B.G
Indus
City County
Central Dispatch
Orlin W. Smith
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