Word: kansan
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Inability to agree on a desired level of military expenditures has already | delayed Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole's attempt to frame an alternative budget. With White House blessing, the Kansan had undertaken to get his 52 G.O.P. Senate colleagues to agree on spending cuts that would actually meet Reagan's unfulfilled goal of slashing the deficit to $100 billion by 1988. The Dole budget was supposed to be unveiled last Friday, but it was not; there is no certainty that it will be ready this week either, or in fact ever. The present thinking is that some time this...
...desks arranged in semicircles, rang with the spirited oratory of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Last week, when the Senate's 53 Republicans gathered in the museum-like room to elect their leader for the next two years, the forensics were apparently no less rousing. Kansan Robert Dole claimed to be thoroughly persuaded by the speech his nominator, John Danforth of Missouri, made on his behalf. "It was so impressive," Dole quipped, "that I ended up voting for myself...
...Vietnam memorial, if approved, would be the fourth war memorial on campus. The Kansas Union and Memorial Stadium were dedicated to the 119 K.U. students and alumni who died in World War I. The Memorial Campanile is dedicated to those who died in World War II. --The University Daily Kansan...
...been a newsman since his teens; his foreign assignments included Nairobi and Jerusalem. Renowned for quick wit and warmth, he was unflappable; when a plane he was aboard had a harrowing landing last year, Torgerson buried any fears he may have had in a hearty laugh. Cross, a Kansan who worked in Central America for years under the pseudonym R. Cruz, was a loner, but passionate about his work: once, when he missed a flight to Honduras, he banged on an airline counter so hard he broke bones in his hand. Cross had been among the journalists who admired...
GLSOK has been a recognized student group at the university since 1973. The University Daily Kansan...