Clinton embraces Aristide as Haiti marks aid mission
In Port-au-Prince President Clinton offers a symbolic hug to Aristide and tells U S troops they moved Haiti from a dark night of fear to a new day of freedom. Aristide thanks Clinton and praises the troops for feeding Haiti from death to life amid reports of alleged execution plots by his government.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Clinton
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
U.S
Aristide
Romanian Airliner Crashes Near Bucharest Killing 59
An Airbus A310 operated by Tarom crashed shortly after takeoff from Otopeni airport in sleet, near Balotesti, killing all 59 aboard including three Americans. The Brussels flight disappeared after leaving Bucharest with authorities unsure of the cause. A prior Tarom flight on the same route received an anonymous bomb threat earlier this month but no device was found.
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Bucharest
Romania
Tarom Airlines
Brussels
Belgium
Otopeni
Balotesti
Tarom
Glickman Becomes Agriculture Secretary in 94-0 Senate Vote
Dan Glickman was sworn in as U S agriculture secretary after a 94 to 0 Senate confirmation. The Kansas Democrat, who lost reelection bids, took charge days after President Clinton tapped him to replace Mike Espy and join the Clinton administration’s farm policy team led by Kansans Dole and Roberts.
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Washington
Dan Glickman
Congress
Kansas
Democrat Glickman
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture
Richard E. Rominger
Senate
Glickman
Clinton
Mike Espy
Bob Dole
House Agriculture Committee
Pat Roberts
School days recalled in Russell as Specter seeks porch speech
Alice Mills, 94, recalls teaching Sen. Arlen Specter and Sen. Bob Dole in Russell Kansas. Specter asked to speak from Mills porch but said space was too small. he will speak Saturday from the Elks Club. Mills taught English and math for fifty years before retiring in 1969 and remembers both politicians as excellent students.
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Russell
Kan
Arlen Specter
Specter
Alice Mills
Elks Club
Mills
Kansas
Bob Dole
Dole
Rail-trail hearing draws crowd in Franklin County
About 150 people attended a special Franklin County hearing on the 50.2 mile Prairie Spirit Rail Trail from Iola to Ottawa. Judge Savage asked for show of hands. roughly two thirds opposed and one third supported. No vote was taken yet, but a decision may come soon.
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Prairie Spirit
Franklin County Commission
Iola
Ottawa
Russell Savage
County Commission
Savage
George Cumberland
Pickets Go on Strike at Chrysler Kokomo Plant
About 5,700 UAW Local 685 workers at Chrysler Kokomo and UAW Local 594 at GM Pontiac East struck after a 10 am deadline. Larry Scott said the move aims to resolve issues while Dennis Brewer, a 17 year Chrysler veteran, stressed protecting local jobs and futures.
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OKOMO
Ind
Chrysler Corp
United Auto Workers Local 685
UAW
Pontiac
Mich
General Motors Corp
Pontiac East
Board debates $19.3 million Oro school bond at forum
Oro school board members Jack Maxwell and Rex Cummings outlined a bare bones 19.3 million bond to address current and future space needs. They noted pools and auditorium costs were excluded to curb expense and emphasized adaptable space, expanded media centers, and growing technology use including desktop video experiments.
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Itawa — School
Oro
Jack Maxwell
Rex Cummings
Garfield
Maxwell
Kansas House sends school finance bill to Gov Graves
The Kansas House approved a school finance proposal by 94 to 29 to raise base per pupil funding from 3600 to 3626 dollars with 32.75 extra per pupil for districts over 1875 students including Ottawa. The Senate backed the conference report 34 to 6, sending the bill to Governor Bill Graves as changes to the 1992 law would affect 304 districts and total about 1.4 billion dollars in state funding.
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Bill Graves
Ottawa
House
Senate
Detour on 15th Street Near Main for Utility Work
City plans a one day detour on West 15th Street west of Main starting Tuesday to enable a water line connection and utility improvement. Traffic will shift via 10th and Elm streets and the move prepares for a later Main Street project between 15th and 17th.
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15Th Street
Main
West 15Th Street
10Th and Elm
Drug purity worries land woman in jail
A 31 year old woman in Antioch California was arrested in February after entering a police station with a bag of methamphetamine she claimed to want tested. She said she believed her boyfriend had added hallucinogens to the drug. Coincidences Twins Lorraine and Levinia Christmas were involved in a December car collision near Flitcham England while delivering presents. Neither sustained serious injuries.
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Antioch
Calif
Hal
Lorraine
Levinia
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