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...taken a flight to Wichita," the man said...
...Crimson routed its first opponent, Wichita State, 6-0, before falling to Long Beach State. In the consolation rounds, Harvard topped Southeast Louisiana (6-3) and Wisconsin (5-4) to earn fifth place...
Meeting in the appropriately outsize New Orleans Superdome, delegates blessed the Fundamentalists, voting in as S.B.C. president the Rev. Morris Chapman of Wichita Falls, Texas. He outpolled an Atlanta moderate, the Rev. Daniel Vestal, 21,471 to 15,753. Like all presidents since 1979, Chapman will use his nominating powers to consolidate inerrantist control of S.B.C. schools and agencies. The meeting also gutted funding for a Washington office representing various Baptist denominations in favor of an S.B.C. lobby that will buttress the religious right on such matters as abortion and school prayer...
...Disease Control in Atlanta, which has been receiving about 1,000 calls a month from people who claim to be CFS victims, or from their relatives or doctors, has launched a $1 million "surveillance program" in which 350 physicians will study CFS patients in Reno, Atlanta, Grand Rapids and Wichita. "We're sort of starting from ground zero with this illness," says Walter Gunn of the CDC's viral diseases division...
...logging machinery and destroying oil-exploration gear. But it is law- abiding citizens, stung by a threat to their livelihood, their recreation or their family's health, who are giving the nation's environmental movement its daily, stubborn edge. In Kansas two years ago, a housewife who lived near Wichita's Vulcan Chemical plant and whose family had been beset with health problems handcuffed herself to a chair outside Governor Mike Hayden's office until she could see him. Last year a Louisiana group brought cancer-stricken children to an environmental hearing in Baton Rouge, and protesters of a Conoco...