Memorial honors Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate
Mitch Snyder, founder of the Community for Creative Non-Violence, was remembered as a man of justice after his death by hanging at his Washington shelter. Jesse Jackson praised his moral call to aid the homeless, while officials noted possible self-inflicted asphyxiation.
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Washington
Mitch Snyder
Jesse Jackson
Bible Way Church
Snyder
Jackson
Washington Shelter
Georges Benjamin
Mitch
Snyder's
Carol
Fennelly
U.S. Capitol
Community For
Reagan
Local Forum Answers Library Questions in Ottawa
Library Line provides answers to questions from Ottawa patrons. Topics include ACLU Kansas office contact details, McLouth Threshing Bee dates, vital records copies cost and address, Litton Microwave address from Thomas Register, gallon weight of water, sheep shearing, and a 24 seven child abuse hotline for information and referrals.
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Ottawa
Fifth
Main Streets
American Civil Liberties Union
American Civil Liberties Union of
Kansas and
Western Missouri
E. 31St Terr
Kansas City
ACLU
McLouth Threshing
McLouth
Kansas
Office of Vital Statistics
London State Office
SW Jackson
Litton
Thomas Register of Manufacturers
Thenium Lane
Minneapolis
Minn
Thomas Register
Ots
United
Statns
Franklin County Extension Office
Dean Chambers
Wellsville
National Director of
Yeltsin Warns Party Reformers of Nationalization Fallout
Soviet reformers push at the Kremlin congress as Boris Yeltsin warns traditionalists that intransigence could lead to nationalization of party property and trials for leaders. He calls for embracing multiparty reforms, while Gorbachev faces blunt criticism and radical groups push to claim party holdings.
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Moscow
Boris N. Yeltsin
Communist Party
Yeltsin
Kremlin
Palace of Congresses
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Soviet Communist Party
Lenin
Gorbachev
Yuri Boldyrev
Leningrad
Democratic Platform
Trump wins NY tax battle on Manhattan property
New York reports Donald Trump saved 1.2 million in 1989 taxes after a Tax Commission ruling cut the assessed rate on his 56 acre Upper West Side waterfront site from 44 million to lower. The list of 19,306 winners also included the Warhol estate and others. Trump later paid multimillion dollar semiannual taxes totaling 2.2 million for undeveloped West Side land, 1 million for Trump Tower, and 900,000 for Trump Parc condominiums.
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New York
Donald Trump
Trump
Manhattan
Upper West Side
City Tax Commission
Andy Warhol
Alex DiLorenzo
Happy Land Social Club
West Side
Trump Tower
Trump Parc
Defense panel urges defense cuts over Soviet strength decline
Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee say Soviet military power has irreversibly declined and is an empty threat. Republicans dispute the report, arguing U.S. and NATO security would suffer with larger cuts. They cite lack of a Europe treaty, unclear Germany’s future, and Eastern European instability.
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Washington
House
House Armed Services Committee
Defense
Soviet Union
William Dickinson
Alabama
GOP
Europe
Germany
U.S
Bush
Armed Services Committee
Mikhail
Gorbachev
Kremlin
Wheat harvest winds down across Kansas in 1990
Kansas harvest officials reported 75 percent of the 1990 wheat crop cut statewide with the northwest near finish while northeast fields remained uncut. Officials cited rail car shortages and large onhand grain as factors, with Goodland and Colby seeing rapid progress despite rain delays.
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Salina
Kan
Northwest
Bob Kidd
Kansas
Norton
Hill City
Colby
Oberlin
Topeka
Atchison
Kidd
Goodland
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Carol Fennelly
Local Forum
Paul Hays
W. Tecumseh
Me Farm Bureau Insurance
Elder's
Main
Charlotte
Carl
Shelley Parks
Shelley
S. Elm
Afghanistan
Red Army
Gay Nell Helweg
Don Swisher
Beloit
Cawker City
Tipton
Hunter
Denmark
Westfall
Patrick Breeding
Delphos Co-op Association
Breeding
Amosl Hold
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Oftawa Middle School
Locacions
Minsom Memotal Hospital
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