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...Topeka Foundry & Iron Works last week, the setting was new, but the set was familiar: klieg lights, blue-draped dais, place cards, Congressmen, a sprinkling of average Americans and the President, headlining another health- care forum. The audience of 150 Kansas business owners was treated to the spectacle of the nation's President, looking every bit the Accountant in Chief, doing business math for a Mexican-restaurant owner, a flower-shop owner, an architect, a construction-company owner and a farmer. Their chief concern was how much money they personally would fork over if his plan became law. Regina Jaramillo...
That progress may owe something to Clinton's artful exercise in euphemism and paraphrase, an effort to avoid some of the phrases that seem to conjure images of a sprawling, socialist nightmare. At town meetings and health forums in Charlotte, North Carolina; Topeka and Fairway, Kansas; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, the President rolled out a new script with five simpler talking points. "Universal coverage," for example, is now "permanent private health insurance." But the President was hard-pressed to avoid minutiae. Like Oz, he was faced with a new wish list from every American he met. At the foundry forum...
...first time since the Brown [v. Topeka Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court] decision, resegregation of African-American students occurred during the Bush Administration," according to the report...
...jittery about courthouse crime that since the early '80s, most federal courts have been outfitted with airport-style X-ray machines, designed to detect concealed weapons. Even so, the bloodletting continues. On Aug. 6, a man scheduled to be sentenced for drug dealing stormed the federal courthouse in Topeka, Kansas, firing two guns . and lobbing pipe bombs. Before Jack McKnight, 37, killed himself by detonating explosives strapped to his body, he killed a security guard and wounded five people. "There's now a tacit assumption that people can vent their frustrations almost anywhere," says Dr. Allwyn Levine, a New Jersey...
Anticipating the Tareq-901, rechristened in honor of an Islamic hero, the U.S. Navy had already dispatched the nuclear-attack submarine Topeka to the gulf. Western experts suspect that Iran's sub is equipped with SA-16 infrared- guided antiaircraft missiles obtained from the Russians two years ago, as well as its normal armament of 18 torpedoes...