Rescuers regain contact with three in Hotel New World collapse
Singapore rescuers report voice contact with three survivors in the six story Hotel New World wreckage after a ceiling collapse blocked access. With 39 missing and 11 confirmed dead, authorities cite no clear cause while a commission of inquiry is announced.
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Singapore
New World
Lee Kuan Yew
Lee
Lim Siam Kim
Home Affairs Ministry
Little
India
Lim
Lee Fook Chan
MRT
Malaysia
Reappraisal Aid Bill Delayed In Kansas Senate
The Senate Ways and Means Committee paused action on a 24 million plan to fund county costs for the statewide property reappraisal. The bill would shell out 8 million annually for three years, with counties reimbursed per parcel, and allows bulk purchasing of computer gear at the state level.
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Topeka
Kan
Senate
Ways and Means
State Treasury
August Bogina
R-Lenexa
Fred Kerr
R-Pratt
Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee
Harley Duncan
Senate Tax Committee
Kansas
Tax Committee
Duncan
Kerr
Beverly Bradley
Kansas Association of Counties
Chip Wheelen
Kansas Legislative Policy Group
French Voters Thumb Leftists
In Paris and overseas territories conservatives win 291 seats in the 577 member National Assembly, a bare majority with two overseas seats undecided. The far right National Front gains 33 seats, Communist strength drops, and President Mitterrand faces a hostile parliament. Premier Fabius resigns. Chirac’s allies push to name a Conservative premier.
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Paris
National Assembly
Francois Mitterrand
National Front
Assembly
Mitterrand
French Fifth Republic
Jacques Chirac
Rally For the Republic
Laurent Fabius
Elysee Palace
Fabius
Chirac
Union For French Democracy
Left Radical Party
Americans see low chance of nuclear war with Soviet Union
A Media General AP poll of 1512 adults finds most Americans doubt nuclear war with the USSR will occur this century, with about half believing relations with Reagan improved and 69 percent calling the USSR a military threat. Education level influences threat perception. China seen as less threatening.
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New York
Soviet Union
Associated Press
United States
Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
China
State overstaffing debated amid Farm measures and election bills
Grogan pressed officials on state staffing numbers while Allen cited 60 000 estimated workers amid part time posts. Ed wards noted many factors are out of control. The UD 290 mail ballot issue on a 525 000 bond drew debate about delivery to the county clerk and proxy deliverers. A farm implement dealer relief bill passed the Senate requiring 90 day notices and just cause before closing. Noxious weed law enforcement was criticized as uneven across counties with Franklin County budgeting more attention than Osage Anderson and Johnson.
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Grogan
Allen
U.S.D
House
Nichols
Senate
Maiity
Franklin County
Osage
Anderson
Johnson
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