Legislature Week Highlights Strange and Wonderful Debates
Local legislators at the Chamber of Commerce meeting tightens time limits for speakers and discusses bills. Wingert notes welfare move, Niles opposes smaller legislature, Winter highlights a Senate school finance bill adding 117.8 million dollars while aiming to cut property taxes. They warn House fate is unclear with freshmen and no-fault insurance under review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert B. Wellington
Chamber of Commerce
Robert Pinet
Chamber
George Wingert
Irving Niles
Sen
Wint Winter
Wingert
Niles
Winter
House
Senate
Kansas
Kansas Senate
Robert Docking
Ottawa
Sudan Rejects Safe Passage Demands From Palestinian Guerrillas
Palestinian commandos who killed two American diplomats and wounded a Belgian envoy demanded safe passage out of Sudan and the two Arab hostages be released. The Sudanese government rejected the demand and ordered the captives and bodies handed over. The situation escalated as troops prepared for a possible military operation to recover the hostages at the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Khartoum
Sudan
Egypt
Middle East
Cleo A. Noel Jr
U.S
G. Curtis Moore
Guy Eid
Saudi Arabian
Moore
United States
Tokyo
Yomiuri
Shigeru Nomoto
Noel
Nixon
Beirut
Black September
Jordan
Adley el Nasser
Sheik Abdullah Malhouk
al Moharer
Ex POW Blames Division At Home
At a Great Lakes Naval Hospital news conference three ex prisoners of war report they were held to discuss their captivity. Lt. Cmdr. Richard R. Ratzlaff of Aberdeen South Dakota says lack of unity at home delayed their release and believes more national unity would have brought them home earlier. Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Charles Plumb Jr. of Overland Park Kansas adds they wish to tell their story but have a more timely obligation to others still detained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes, Ill
U.S
Richard R. Ratzlaff
Aberdeen
D. Ratzlaff
Great Lakes Naval Hospital
Cmdr
Joseph Charles Plumb Jr
Overland Park, Kan
Plumb
United States
Hanoi
Michael Krome
Decorah
Iowa
Krome
Kansas City
Caribbean
North Vietnam
Ratzlaff
Richard D. Ratzlaff
Lincoln
Neb
Judy
Pacific Architects and Engineers
Saigon
George Krome
Indians Holdout At Wounded Knee Narrows Peace Hopes
Federal agents in armored vehicles patrolled Wounded Knee South Dakota as gunfire continued and talks with AIM leaders remained unproductive. U S attorney general adviser Ralph Erickson warned of possible charges including kidnapping while hostages were described as no longer held by the captors.
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Wounded Knee
S.D
Ralph Erickson
U.S
FBI
Erickson
American Indian Movement
AIM
Justice Department
Senate
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Oglala
Pine Ridge
Fiiday
South Dakota
George S. McGovern
James Abourezk
Agnes Gildersleeve
Corps Hopes to Clarify New Lakes User Fees
Army Corps of Engineers Kansas City district aims to clear up misinformation on proposed fees for lakes. Entrance fees are prohibited. overnight camping and day use fees are planned, with camping at 1 to 2 dollars per unit per night and day use 50 cents to 1 dollar per car. Lake Pomona set to start at 50 cents.
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Bob Hunter
Army Corps of Engineers
Kansas City
Congress
Corps of
Corps Lakes
Washington
Lake Pomona
Nixon faces broad resistance to postwar aid for Hanoi
President Nixon argues for reconstruction funds to aid North Vietnam, saying they will stabilize peace and not pull from domestic funds, while Congress shows a rare coalition of conservatives and liberals in opposition amid a tense mood over executive spending. The piece also notes the opening of a new Law Enforcement Building housing Ottawa Police and Franklin County Sheriff offices with a partially completed jail.
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Washington
Nixon
North Vietnam
U.S
Hanoi
Congress
Bawks
Gale McGee
D-Wyo
Senate
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Reconstruction
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
William Proxmire
D-Wis
George McGovern
Ottawa Police Department
Franklin County Sheriff's Department
County Commission
Wilbur F. Kruse
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Joy Taylor
Dallas
Germany
Japan
Europe
Far East
Indochina
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
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