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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1986
Page
1
Inside Highlights notes Ottawa's MDA drive maintains high spirits and community energy on page 3, highlighting local volunteers, events, and supportive actions.
Kansas tourism appears steady this summer with visitors enjoying regional attractions and outdoor spots. Officials cite moderate numbers, stable hotel occupancy, and positive feedback from travelers about parks heritage sites and rural getaways.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi intensifies anti United States rhetoric as he widens influence across Third World countries, advocating pan Arab and socialist solidarity while courting leaders and movements in Asia Africa and Latin America.
A Media General AP poll of 1,365 adults finds 85 percent have exceeded 55 mph on highways but 54 percent oppose changing the limit. Fourty-four percent want an increase, 1 percent a decrease, while Western states show more support for raising the limit.
Republican nominee Mike Hayden of Atwood calls for capital punishment as a public demand, while Democrat Tom Docking of Wichita pledges to veto moves to reintroduce the gallows. The debate traces roots to frontier justice and shifts through history, with references to Hamm, Dillinger, and political vetoes in Kansas. Continued on Page 10.
Ottawa officials will again consider a plat for the Southside Mall, with Wickliff & Company reportedly in talks with a Kansas City firm to take over development. City Manager Lyle Dresher said contact has been attempted and more information may come at the Wednesday meeting. The panel may table, approve, or send the items back to planning. The agenda also includes water sale talks with Princeton, street improvements on North Main, and zoning hearings on home occupations and commercial uses.
In a Soviet disaster, the passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sank after a midships collision with the freighter Pyotr Vasyev near Novorossiysk. At least 79 were dead, 319 missing, 1,234 aboard. 836 rescued, 29 hospitalized as divers and vessels search 142 feet deep.
In Cerritos California an air traffic controller guiding a jetliner during a collision with a private plane was distracted by a third craft nearby. The death toll rose to 85 with 18 residents of the devastated neighborhood among the victims. The coroner said the small plane pilot had a heart attack moments before.
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