Compromise Plan Fails To Impress Kansas School Leaders
In Topeka the Senate Education Committee heard a compromise plan from leaders of the four largest Kansas districts including Kansas City Kansas Shawnee Mission Topeka and Wichita. They argued for a wealth based aid method 80 percent grandfathering and a statewide eight mill tax shift while delaying tax based funding and urging a budget cap of 5 to 15 percent. Sen. Joe Harder criticized the plan as lacking new ideas and warned of potential governor vetoes. Public hearing set for Monday with decisions possible next week.
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Topeka
Kan
Senate Education Committee
Orvin L. Plucker
Kansas
Plucker
Kansas City
Shawnee Mission
Johnson County
Wichita
Senate House
Harder
Concorde bets fade as Pan Am and TWA skip options
New York AP report says Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines will not exercise options to buy Concorde supersonic jets citing limited range higher operating costs and questionable economic viability. American Eastern Braniff and Continental hold options, Braniff most optimistic for Latin American routes as critics question demand and pricing.
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New York
Pan American World Airways
Trans World Airlines
U.S
American
Eastern
Braniff
Continental
Kansas House ends bid to legalize bingo and lotteries
Speaker Duane Pete McGill announced the House will not pursue bingo or lottery measures this year after the Senate rejected the proposal. He suggested waiting until 1974 for possible action and ballot placement if interest renews.
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Topeka
Kan
Bingo
Kansas House
Duane
Pete” McGill
Winfield
House
Senate
McGill
Kansas Senate considers rules overhaul and parole reform
In Topeka committees weigh executive reorganization to elevate the Senate president pro tem and create a vice president post. A separate panel debates sweeping penal system changes including a secretary of corrections and parole powers amid calls for community based corrections and major bill revisions.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Senate
Senate Committee
State Supreme Court
Senate
Federal
Corrections
Ed Reilly
R-Leavenworth
Reilly
Secretary of Corrections
Bill Henry
Kansas Board of Probation and Parole
Henry
Retired Officer Shakes Pentagon Papers Trial
A retired Air Force officer testifies in the Pentagon papers case about orders to remove reports from government files that could aid Ellsberg and Russo. Lt. Col. Edward Miller says he prepared the reports under Defense Department direction and that OSR director Charles Hinkle may have centralized the effort. Defense counsel denies orders to purge the files.
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Los Angeles
Air Force
Pentagon
Daniel Ellsberg
Anthony Russo
Edward A. Miller
Charles Hinkle
Office of Security Review
OSR
Elisberg
Russo
U.S
Vietnam
Miller
OSA
Frank Bartimo
Defense Department
Bartimo
Assassinations Hit Belfast Teens in Catholic Areas
In Belfast three Catholic teens were killed as Protestant militants strike. Gabriel Savage aged 17 was dragged from his girlfriend and shot in a ditch. Two 15 year olds, Peter Watterson and another boy, died in the Falls Road and at a store doorway respectively. A 14 year old, Philip Rafferty, died later at Giant's Ring after band practice. One 17 year old survived injuries from a near fatal shooting.
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Belfast
Gabriel Savage
Savage
Northern Ireland
Gerry Fitt
Promi
Peter Watterson
Monday
Falls Road
Watterson
Rafferty
Elizabeth
Deny Report Of VC Release Of Three POWs
Saigon AP report denied by U.S. Command and other officials who checked with all prisoner recovery sources under the Paris peace agreement and found no evidence of three American prisoners being released and flown to Saigon. An Army officer had claimed the trio were rescued and delighted, given candy and cigarettes, and taken to a Saigon hospital.
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Saigon
U.S
Saigon Army Hospital
Associated Press
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Slar
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Hinkle
Jerry Freidheim
J. Fred Buzhardt
George Co. Scott
Panavision
Warner Sras
Warner Communications
Thrillin Big Stages
Dai IL
Philip Rafferty
Andersonstown Dis
Financial House
Interstate
ISC Industries Inc
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Kansas City Power & Light
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the Lighting Dept
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