Taiwan plans limited direct trade with China amid show of force
Economics Minister Chiang Pin-kung announced a plan to create special zones for direct trade links to China, with a June legislative submission while Beijing ended a round of war games off Taiwan. The government seeks a phased easing of the 1949 ban, pending broader talks with communist authorities.
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AJPEI
Taiwan
China
Beijing
Lee Teng-hui
Chiang Pin-kung
Hong Kong
Guangdong
Fujian
Lee
Chiang
Thieves target small Midwest museums in Indian artifact theft wave
Patrick Brophy, curator of Bushwhacker Museum in Nevada Missouri, laments stolen arrows and moccasins from a jailhouse museum as a surge of museum thefts hits Kansas Missouri and beyond. Officials tally a dozen-plus breaches since late 1993, with Civil War era and Western items among the losses. Experts say rising prices drive the raids and thieves exploit open hours to plunder small collections.
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Evada
Patrick Brophy
Brophy
Nevada
Midwest
Kansas
Missouri
Kansas State Historical Society
Kauffman Museum
North Newton
Kan
Clark County Historical Society
Ashland
Wilson County Historical Society
Fredonia
Fairway
Smoky Hill Museum
Salina
Richard Pohart
Morningstar Gallery
Santa Fe
N.M
Newton County Historical Society
Neosho
Crawford County
Pittsburg
Evad C. Cray
Historical Home Museum
Atchison, Kan
Topeka
Osawatomie
Dalton Gang
Coffeyville
Franklin County FCE Fall Tour to Chicago and Missouri Stops
The Franklin County Extension’s Family and Community Education Council sponsors 1996 tours including a Chicago trip September 23 to 27 at 415 per person double occupancy. Stops include Hannibal Springfield and St. Louis with a Mark Twain home tour, Shedd Aquarium, Spirit of Chicago cruise, and Lincoln sites. Additional tours to Kansas City and Matfield Green are planned.
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de Franklin County
Family and Community Education
FCE) Council
Chicago
FCE Council
Hannibal
Springfield
St. Louis
Mark Twain
Molly Brown
John G. Shedd
Union Station
Missouri Botanical Gardens
Franklin County Extension Office
Franklin County Fce Council
S. Main
Arabia
Kansas City
Homestead Ranch
Matfield Green
Clinton visits U S troops in Bosnia Tuzla front lines
Hillary Rodham Clinton travels with a Turkey to Tuzla Bosnia visiting U S troops, hearing reports of destruction and dead bodies from residents, meeting acting Bosnian President Ejup Ganic, and addressing soldiers at a USO show with Sheryl Crow and Sinbad aboard a C-17 plane.
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Tuzla
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia
Hillary Rodham Clinton
U.S
Clinton
Ejup Ganic
Eleanor Roosevelt
Pat Nixon
Saigon
Barbara Bush
President Bush
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
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Gamnett
St Ont Carpet & Furniture
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City University of New York
Donna Kritz- Silverstein
University of California
San Diego
Kritz-Silverstein
James Rippe
Tufts University School of Medici
Rippe
By Marcia Houck
Family & Consumer Sciences
Hillary
Chelsea
Sarajevo
Katarina Mandic
Federation Constitutional Court
Federation
Mandic
Peoples National Bank
Plaza Cinemas
Sth
South Ma
National Bank & Trust
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