Farmers Protest Low Prices And Futures Trading
About 200 Midwest farmers gathered in Chicago to protest low prices and alleged futures trading harms family farms. Leaders Wayne Cryts and Carlos Welty were among 12 arrested during a Board of Trade demonstration that aimed to disrupt grain trading and planned a second protest at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
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Chicago
Midwest
American Agriculture Movement
Chicago Board of Trade
Wayne Cryts
Carlos Welty
Missouri
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Cryts
Board of Trade
Las Vegas
Cryis
LaSalle Street
Thomas P. Cunningham
Exchange
Cunningham
Washington
Congress
U.S
Ralph Weems
American Soybean Association
The
Finney urges reinstating state auditor to watch spending
Kansas State Treasurer Joan Finney told a House committee that the elected auditor should be restored after its 1974 abolition. She argued for keeping the treasurer and insurance commissioner elective, warning against appointive governance and stressing checks and balances on state spending.
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Topeka
Kan
Joan Finney
Finney
Insurance Commissioner
Fletcher Bell
Mrs. Finney
John Carlin
Revenue
Smokeless Tobacco Under The Gun
The FTC asked Surgeon General Koop to launch a full-scale investigation into smokeless tobacco. It urged a panel of experts to assess cancer risks and possible warnings, citing consumer groups and a December letter from Koop.
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Washington
The
Federal Trade Commission Today
Everett Koop
FTC
Koop
Names In The News From Raleigh To Columbia
In Raleigh Kate Smith, famed for God Bless America, shows slow progress in walking recovery aged 77. In Newton Jody Powell lectures at Boston College on Politics and the Media. In Phoenix Kathryn Sullivan flies solo a sailplane after eight flights. In Columbia Jihan Sadat discusses Arab women's roles as she begins as visiting professor at the University of South Carolina.
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Raleigh, N.C
Kate Smith
America
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Helena Smith Steene
Ms. Smith
Coney Island
Newton
Mass
Jimmy Carter
Jody Powell
Boston College
Powell
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
U.S. House
Carter
Phoenix
Ariz
Space
Kathryn Sullivan
Earth
Estrella Sailport
Les Horvath
Ms. Sullivan
Columbia
8.C
Jihan Sadat
Anwar Sadat
University of South Carolina
Sadat
Right To Life Seeks Expanded Abortion Reporting Law
Right to Life of Kansas urged lawmakers to require doctors clinics and hospitals to report every abortion and to obtain six month follow ups from patients. The group plans to introduce a bill in the House with Rep. John Sutter. Proponents distributed roses and noted the abortion rights coalition handed out bread, framing the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision.
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Topeka
Kan
Right To Life of
Kansas
Elmer Feldkamp
Baileyville
Statehouse
John F. Sutter
Kansas City
Right To Life
Religious Coalition For Abortion Rights
U.S. Supreme Court
Religious Coalition
Staff of Life
Supreme Court
Lee Ketzel
Lawrence
Feldkamp
Planned Parenthood
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Johnny Porch
Arthur Clancy
Texas
Bill Shoop
David Anderson
Richard Corte
Jerry Kramer
Cryte
Welty
Harvey Lanner
Gene LaFrance
Ilinois
Glen Stinson
Oklahoma
Raleigh
Mrs. Steene
Reagan
American Broadcasting Co
Shannon Barnes
the Family Circus
By Bil Keane
Huso
Nape Hagar
Campe
Dinfay
Don
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