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DIED. CHARLES CHIBITTY, 83, last survivor of the Comanche code talkers who sent messages for the Allies during World War II; in Tulsa, Okla. "It's strange," said the war vet in 2002. "Growing up as a child I was forbidden to speak my native language at school. Later [it] helped win the war, and that makes me very proud...
...sorry, but we do not fly to Tucson. Please choose any button on your touch-tone telephone if you would like to fly to Tulsa. If you have a rotary phone, what's a rotary phone...
When affirmative action is buried, the eulogy will be performed by a black scholar. And as the mourners depart, a black intellectual will be heard to ask, "What's next?" A chorus of voices will answer, "The Emancipation Proclamation!" (SCPO) Elwyne D. McFalls U.S.N. (ret.) Tulsa...
...Supreme Court last week declined to hear a case presented by Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree that sought reparations for the victims of a cataclysmal 1921 race riot in Tulsa, Okla...
...agency's political problems. Its first president, Victor Schroeder, resigned in 1983 amid accusations that he had improperly charged $25,000 in mortgage payments on his home to the SFC. A year later his successor, Victor Thompson, stepped down soon after it came to light that a Tulsa bank he had headed had been the target of an investigation for securities violations. No criminal charges resulted from the investigation. Early on, the SFC earned a reputation for inefficiency and waste. Says Iowa Congressman James Leach, a Republican: "These are the only guys in the world who make the Pentagon look...