Editorial on Stealth B-2 costs and defense funding
The piece argues the B-2 Stealth bomber, though crucial for defense, costs $815 billion and faces proposed cuts from 132 to 75 units. It condemns doomist rhetoric, recalls SST funding battles, and urges restraint while acknowledging national security needs and the Soviet threat.
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Jay Leno
Air Force
Congress
Defense
Dick Cheney
Defense Department
Senate
U.S
Paris
New Puritanism Rises as Americans Drink Less
Guest Opinion notes a decade long drop in per capita alcohol consumption since Prohibition ended. Polls show 44 percent teetotalers and 45 percent drinking less than five years ago. The piece argues health concerns, education, and public pressure as key to reducing alcohol and potentially drugs.
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Louis Harris
Gallup
Alcoholics Anonymous
United States
Nine House chairmen quit. Topeka reshapes committees
In Topeka last week nine of twenty one House committee chairmen did not seek re election. Ginger Barr Jayne Aylward Susan Roenbaugh Bill Bunten Rochelle Chronister Dennis Spaniol Jeff Freeman Carl Holmes Marvin Littlejohn Tom Walker Nancy Brown Vern Williams and Jim Braden all step back reshaping key panels such as Appropriations Federal and State Affairs and Public Health. The next chairmen will be chosen after leadership elections in December.
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Topeka
House
Senate
Ginger Barr
Federal and State Affairs Committee
Jayne Aylward
Salina
State Board of Tax Appeals
Bill Bunten
ReTepeka
House Appropriations Committee
Rochelle Chronister
Chronister
Appropriations Committee
Dennis Spaniol
Wichita
Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Jeff Freeman
Burlington
Freeman
Carl Holmes
Liberal
Marvin Littlejohn
Phillipsburg
Public Health and Welfare Committee
Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Frank Buehler
R.D. Miller
R-Russell
Nancy Brown
R-Stanley
Vern Williams
Pensions, Investments and Benefits Committee
J.C. Long
Harper
Jim Braden
Clay Center
Braden
Committee On
Campaign finance reform urged to curb influence and costs
The letter argues campaign financing has spiraled, with House races costing over 300000 and Senate seats averaging 3 million. It criticizes incumbents and PAC money, cites past filibusters on reform, and urges voters to pressure Republicans led by Bob Dole and Nancy Kassebaum to pass real reform now.
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Senate
Bob Dole
Nancy Kassebaum
Sen. Dole
Sen
Mitchell
Congress
Washington
Topeka
Dole
Kassebaum
Milan Lambertson
Contact details for U S government representatives
A list provides addresses and phone numbers for President George Bush at the White House and senators Bob Dole Nancy Kassebaum as well as representatives Bob Whittaker Jim Allen Bethe Sue Shumway with their respective offices in Washington D C Topeka and related telephone numbers for public inquiry and constituent contact.
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George Bush
White House
Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, D.C
Bob Dole
Hart
Senate
Nancy Kassebaum
Russell
Washington, D. C
Bob Whittaker
Rayburn
Washington
D.C
Jim Allen
Statehouse
Topeka
Bethe Sue Shumway
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Perry
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Ottawa Herald
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