City Commission at Center of Internal Controversy
City Commissioner Fred Heathman distributed a letter accusing officials of threatening recall over his talks with a city employee about work problems in the Department of Public Safety. The letter cites alleged refusals to allow a consultant and notes a May 7 meeting with the mayor and Dresher. Executive sessions followed as officials declined comment amid alleged pressure on Heathman for his communications.
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Melissa Bauman
Fred Heathman
Commission
Heathman
Department of Public Safety
Lyle Dresher
DPS
City Commission
Jerry Thompson
Dresher
Kristy Cannon
John Richeson
Thompson
Jim McCrea
May sales slump marks 11 year low here
The Commerce Department reported 1.8 percent drop in May retail and business sales to 420.7 billion, the steepest one month fall since March 1975, while inventories shrank 0.3 percent to 586.6 billion. The Federal Reserve noted capacity utilization at 78.3 percent in June, down 6.6 points from May. Industrial production fell 0.5 percent in June, the fourth drop in five months, with only a small rise in retail sales.
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Associated Press
Commerce Department
Federal Reserve Board
Tion
Reserve Board
Suspect Arrested In Three Hour Car Theft Search
A Kansas City Kansas man, 18 year old Galen D Wheat, was arrested on auto theft charges after a three hour search that used airplanes bloodhounds and patrols. Wheat was found hiding in a brush pile near a Hallmark Inn parking lot and booked into county jail.
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Jay Bemis
Kansas City
Kan
Galen D. Wheat
Franklin County
Lyon County
Pregsnell
Hallmark Inn
Franklin County Sheriff's Department
Anderson County Search and Rescue Unit
Pressnell
Congress Hears Cocaine Epidemic Warned By Testimonies
Congress heard alarming testimony on crack cocaine as a cheap accessible drug. A former addict named Michael Taylor described cooking crack in Washington areas while Lee Ann Bonanno of the Bronx recounted starting at 12 and turning to robbery to fuel crack use. Lawmakers cited rising cocaine deaths and ER visits as experts warned crack threatens youth and adults alike.
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Washington
Congress
Michael Taylor
Senate
Lee Ann Bonanno
Bronx
House
Len Bias
University of Maryland
Don Rogers
Cleveland Browns
U S Aids Bolivia in Drug Lab Raids From jungle bases
About 14 U S Army troops and helicopters arrived in Bolivia to assist Bolivian drug agents in a campaign against clandestine cocaine labs. The operation, coordinated by the DEA and authorized by Vice President Bush, uses Black Hawk helicopters to reach bases in the Beni region northeast of La Paz, with roughly 140 American personnel provided diplomatic immunity.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
U.S
Santa Cruz
Mark Jacobs
George Bush
Drug Enforcement Agency
DEA
Reagan
Peru
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Associated Press
Paz Estenssoro
Beni
New Jersey
Chapare
Washington
Panama
Southern Command
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Dick Howser
Frank White
Ron Mann
Ottawa
Kansas
John Dowell
Oren Skiles
Southside
Derrel Pressnell
Sherri A. Burgess
Emporia
Us-50
2Ard Street
Bill Goodell
Garnett
Highway Patrol
Sheriff's People
Goodell
Texas
Presswell
Sheriff's Office
Sheriff's
Randy Hinderliter
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Steve Zuk
Jerome H. Jaffe
Addiction Research Center
The
National Institute
Peter Rodino Jr
D-N.j
House Judiciary Committee
Select Committee On
Robert Byck
Yale University Medical School
Taylor
Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee
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