Huffman Named City Manager In Havelock Move
Huffman selected as Havelock city manager after 84 applications. Award includes 52 000 salary, moving expenses paid, 1500 housing allowance and waiver of 90 day probation. He led Elkin initiatives in recreation solid waste development recycling and industrial growth.
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Elkin
Japan
New York
Montana
Sun Journal
Havelock
Appalachian State University
International City Manager’s Association
N.C
Transpark plan discussed as boost for NC economy and defense use
Officials describe a global Transpark project aimed at expanding transportation capacity to keep pace with international competitors while exploring military use to attract federal funding. Defense Logistics Agency studies consider direct manufacturer delivery to units to cut stockpiles and costs, with Maj. Gen George Babbitt emphasizing faster service and lower costs.
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Pena
North Carolina
Penn
Lancaster
Federal Defense Logistics Agency
Department of Defense
George Babbitt
Defense Logistics Agency
Mount Olive College
Babbitt
Clinton doubles air power as Iraq massed near Kuwait
President Clinton announced a surge of 350 warplanes to the Persian Gulf and additional 70 000 U S personnel amid Iraqi troop movements toward Kuwait. He warned Saddam Hussein cannot be trusted and insisted on deeds over words while Iraq claimed withdrawal. Critics noted past patterns of unkept promises.
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Bush
Richard Lugar
R-Ind
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Aid Haiti Return Plans Amid Transition Efforts
Dozens of American technical experts will fly to Haiti in the coming days to assist the transition as Aristide's return is anticipated. The International Office and key displaced evacuees at a U S naval base in Cuba are set to be brought back to Haiti. Representatives from fifteen international financial institutions will discuss overdue fines and Haiti's financial issues.
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Ances Oman
Aristide
Eer Key
Nobel Peace Prize Question Divides Readers Over Rabin Arafat
Readers weigh in on the reported decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat. Call lines solicit yes or no responses with different numbers, reflecting mixed public reaction.
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Nobel Committee
Yitzhak Rabin
Yasser Arafat
Reenactment of 1773 slave sale stirs Williamsburg crowd
In Colonial Williamsburg’s re enactment of four enslaved people sold in 1773 a large crowd watched as actors portrayed the sale. Some spectators wept while others protested saying the production trivialized history. NAACP official Gravely expressed tears and mixed views on the piece.
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Williamsburg
State
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Colonial Williamsburg
Jelani Roper
College of William and Mary
Lucy
Daniel
Mr. Taylor
Curtis Harris
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Christy
Department of
Retired Knievel arrested for beating Florida woman
Evel Knievel 55 was arrested after a Florida woman alleged he beat her during an argument at a Sunnyvale motel. Police found her with facial injuries and later arrested Knievel at a nearby bar without incident. DA will decide on charges. The woman asked for anonymity. Knievel lives in Las Vegas and retired in the early 1980s.
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Knievel
Sunnyvale
Calif
Florida
George Kaneff
Las Vegas
Ramada Inn Employee Seeks Hobby Balance in New Bern
A New Bern resident Ramada Inn employee Johnson Williams says church and hiking fill leisure days while bingo remains a favorite pastime. If winter sports vanish from TV they plan to play bingo and continue part time at a bingo hall.
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Williams
New Bern
Reunited Zodiac Tyche halves displayed in Cincinnati
Queen Noor and Cincinnati Art Museum officials unveiled plaster casts reuniting the two halves of the Zodiac Tyche statue split by a fourth century earthquake. One half remains in Amman at Jordan's National Archaeological Museum. The 1991 exchange aimed to show the goddess of fortune with zodiac signs as if whole.
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Noor
Cincinnati Art Museum
National Archaeological Museum
Amman
Cincinnati Museum
Cincinnati
Jury Duty Faithfully Said She Wanted to Serve
Sheila Ryan, 57, of Mt Prospect Illinois, with a lifelong hearing disability, was dismissed from a Rolling Meadows jury pool because of unheard courtroom instructions. Officials say no malice, but Ryan insists microphones failed to aid her participation and laments missing her 57 year wait to serve. She described duty as a personal American obligation and expressed pride in her commitment.
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Mt. Prospect
Rolling Meadows
Ill
Ryan
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Thomas Jefferson
Bob Greene
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