Word: ohio
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...needy report dangerous signs of slippage in donations. At food banks across the country, there has been a sizable drop-off. At the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, for example, this year's funding drive brought in $450,000, a decline of $70,000 from 1993. In Toledo, Ohio, the number of families asking for emergency food baskets increased 10%. Donations? Down by almost half. Food baskets that used to include whole turkeys now provide turkey parts and surplus government commodities. Much of the decline in giving is explained by tighter efficiency in the food industry, which provides a good...
...disaffected and recruiting them into militias. Most experts agree that the groups are multiplying and their membership is expanding, though estimates vary. Chip Berlet, who studies militias for Political Research Associates, a Massachusetts think tank, says militia units exist in 30 states, including large organizations in Michigan, Montana and Ohio, and he suspects there may be units in 10 other states. Although there may be hundreds of thousands of people who identify with the patriot movement, Berlet estimates that only about 10,000 people have actually joined the armed militias...
...engine Jetstream turboprop, the smallest type flown by American Eagle. Fifteen of 20 people on board died. A larger American Eagle craft crashed in Indiana Oct. 31, killing all 68 aboard. A Jetstream 41 -- similar to the plane in the North Carolina accident -- crashed Jan. 7 near Columbus, Ohio, killing five people; authorities believed pilot error caused...
...high-value work will remain in the U.S. But Seoul makes little secret of its goal -- one which it is paying $5.2 billion to reach. "We want to build future jets in Korea," says Colonel M.H. Shin of the South Korean military, who is monitoring the program from an Ohio Air Force base...
...Congressional Black Caucus. Howls of protests from Democrats were immediately unleashed. House Republicans also approved incoming Speaker Newt Gingrich's choices for House committee chairman, including Reps. Bill Archer of Texas at the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee; Bob Livingston of Louisiana at Appropriations; John Kasich of Ohio at the Budget Committee and Henry Hyde of Illinois at the Judiciary Committee. (No chairman was chosen for the ethics committee, which is reviewing conflict-of-interest accusations against Gingrich himself...