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Dole campaign aides said the candidate was telling young people not to smoke.	[ { "content": "Dole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]
Dole also said he opposed California Proposition 215 which, if approved by voters, would allow the cultivation of marijuana plants for medicinal uses.	[ { "content": "Dole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "California Proposition 215", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 26 } ]
Dole said the initiative would allow marijuana to be used for anything from a headache to an ingrown toenail.	[ { "content": "Dole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]
In an effort to paint the drug issue in non-political terms, Dole said three times during his 20-minute address that illegal drug use was neither a Democratic nor a Republican issue but one that involves all people.	[ { "content": "Dole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 61 }, { "content": "Democratic", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 148 }, { "content": "Republican", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 165 } ]
The anti-drug message is a theme Dole feels has strong voter appeal.	[ { "content": "Dole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 33 } ]
On Sunday near Chicago he accused President Bill Clinton of " raising the white flag " in the war on drugs.	[ { "content": "Chicago", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 15 }, { "content": "Bill Clinton", "label": "PER", "start_index": 44 } ]
A recent survey showed that illegal drug use among 12-17 year-olds had doubled in the past four years.	[]
Dole was flanked by several California Republican politicians including Gov.	[ { "content": "Dole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "California", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 28 }, { "content": "Republican", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 39 } ]
Pete Wilson, who said local and state governments cannot fight illegal drugs alone.	[ { "content": "Pete Wilson", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]
" We need all the help we can get.	[]
We need to get the kind of help we used to get when Ronald Reagan and George Bush were in the White House, " Wilson said.	[ { "content": "Ronald Reagan", "label": "PER", "start_index": 52 }, { "content": "George Bush", "label": "PER", "start_index": 70 }, { "content": "White House", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 94 }, { "content": "Wilson", "label": "PER", "start_index": 109 ...
BALANCE-Water Dist 1 Johnson Cty, Kan.	[ { "content": "BALANCE-Water Dist 1", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Johnson Cty", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 21 }, { "content": "Kan", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 34 } ]
, at $11 mln.	[]
WATER DISTRICT 1 OF JOHNSON CO.	[ { "content": "WATER DISTRICT 1", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "JOHNSON CO", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 20 } ]
, KS	[ { "content": "KS", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 2 } ]
RE: $45,020,000	[]
WATER REVENUE BONDS	[]
$22,040,000 SER.	[]
1996A	[]
$22,980,000 RFDG, SER.	[]
1996B	[]
MOODY'S: Aa S&P: AA+	[ { "content": "MOODY'S", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "S&P", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 12 } ]
Delivery Date: 09/05/1996 (FIRM)	[]
06/01 12/01	[]
MATURITY SER A SER B SER A SER B	[]
-------------------------------------------------------------	[]
1998 665M 840M 570M	[]
2000 - - 605M	[]
2001 - 70M -	[]
2002 - 895M 600M	[]
2003 705M - 795M	[]
2004 655M 90M 965M	[]
2009 65M - -	[]
2010 60M - 100M	[]
2011 30M - 90M	[]
2012 20M - 35M	[]
TOTAL: 11,450	[]
A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.	[ { "content": "A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
-- U.S. Municipal Desk, 212-859-1650	[ { "content": "U.S. Municipal Desk", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 3 } ]
CME lumber futures close lower on profit taking.	[ { "content": "CME", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
CHICAGO 1996-08-28	[ { "content": "CHICAGO", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]
Profit taking continued to weigh on CME lumber futures but prices ended only slightly lower as strong cash markets underpinned futures, traders said.	[ { "content": "CME", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 36 } ]
The same pattern of the past few days persisted with futures declining early on the profit taking before firming late.	[]
There was cash-related buying late from people who want to take delivery of the September contract, they said.	[]
Cash sources noted that although the cash market is generally quiet, prices remain firm on demand for prompt delivery wood, they added.	[]
Random Lengths quoted cash spruce at $419 per tbf, up $5 from last Friday and $7 over the last midweek quote.	[]
Reduced concern over Hurricane Edouard prompted some of the early profit taking.	[ { "content": "Edouard", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 31 } ]
Expectations the storm would turn more to the north partly eased concerns, they said.	[]
Lumber closed $2.20 to $0.20 per tbf lower with September off $0.70 at $413.20 and November off most at $369.00 per tbf.	[]
-- Jerry Bieszk 312-408-8725	[ { "content": "Jerry Bieszk", "label": "PER", "start_index": 3 } ]
WHEAT--Rains boost U.S. HRW planting prospects.	[ { "content": "U.S.", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 19 } ]
Greg Frost	[ { "content": "Greg Frost", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]
KANSAS CITY, Mo.	[ { "content": "KANSAS CITY", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Mo", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 13 } ]
1996-08-28	[]
Above-normal summer rainfall in the U.S. High Plains has produced near-ideal conditions for planting the 1997 hard red winter wheat crop, analysts said Wednesday.	[ { "content": "U.S.", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 36 }, { "content": "High Plains", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 41 } ]
From central Texas north to Kansas, rains throughout July and August have relieved most of the drought conditions that plagued the region earlier this year.	[ { "content": "Texas", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 13 }, { "content": "Kansas", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 28 } ]
" Our moisture situation is excellent, especially for fall planting of winter wheat, " said Kim Anderson, extension wheat marketing economist at Oklahoma State University.	[ { "content": "Kim Anderson", "label": "PER", "start_index": 92 }, { "content": "Oklahoma State University", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 145 } ]
The irony of the above-average summer rainfall was not lost on High Plains wheat producers, who only three months ago were caught in a drought so severe that old-timers likened conditions to the " Dust Bowl " days of the 1930s.	[ { "content": "High Plains", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 63 }, { "content": "Dust Bowl", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 197 } ]
" It's definitely a turnabout from this past year, but you know last year we had pretty good moisture about this time of year, and then about October 1 it quit, " said Mark Hodges, executive director of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission . "	[ { "content": "Mark Hodges", "label": "PER", "start_index": 168 }, { "content": "Oklahoma Wheat Commission", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 207 } ]
Hopefully that's not going to happen this year . "	[]
According to figures released by the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, an average of 20.19 inches fell across the state between March 1 and August 26, 1996.	[ { "content": "Oklahoma Climatological Survey", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 37 } ]
That's about 1/2 inch above the average for the same time period, according to Howard Johnson, associate state climatologist at the University of Oklahoma.	[ { "content": "Howard Johnson", "label": "PER", "start_index": 79 }, { "content": "University of Oklahoma", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 132 } ]
He noted that the majority of that 20.19 inches had fallen since July.	[]
As an example of just how dry it was, data showed that between October 1, 1995 and March 1, 1996, the state received an average of only 4.6 inches of rainfall.	[]
In northern Texas, the current rainfall situation was similar to most of Oklahoma, said Rodney Mosier, executive assistant for the Texas Wheat Producers.	[ { "content": "Texas", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 12 }, { "content": "Oklahoma", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 73 }, { "content": "Rodney Mosier", "label": "PER", "start_index": 88 }, { "content": "Texas Wheat Producers", "label": "ORG", "start_index":...
" Up here in the Texas Panhandle, we've had some extremely beneficial rains that came through within the last several days and are really setting us up for ideal conditions for planting wheat, " Mosier said.	[ { "content": "Texas Panhandle", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 17 }, { "content": "Mosier", "label": "PER", "start_index": 195 } ]
But he warned that the situation was not as ideal in central and southern Texas, where mositure levels were still short despite the rains brought by Hurricane Dolly last week.	[ { "content": "Texas", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 74 }, { "content": "Dolly", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 159 } ]
In Kansas, typically the number one U.S. hard red winter wheat producer, topsoil moisture levels were rated mostly adequate during the week ended Sunday, according to the state's agricultural statistics service.	[ { "content": "Kansas", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 3 }, { "content": "U.S.", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 36 } ]
In its weekly report released Monday, the service said Kansas topsoil moisture was rated eight percent surplus, 77 percent adequate and 15 percent short to very short.	[ { "content": "Kansas", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 55 } ]
Oklahoma's Agricultural Statistics Service showed similar conditions, rating topsoil moisture levels as seven percent surplus, 81 percent adequate and 12 percent short to very short.	[ { "content": "Oklahoma", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Agricultural Statistics Service", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 11 } ]
Data on topsoil moisture ratings were not released by the Texas Agricultural Statistics Service.	[ { "content": "Texas Agricultural Statistics Service", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 58 } ]
-- Greg Frost, 816 561-8671	[ { "content": "Greg Frost", "label": "PER", "start_index": 3 } ]
First Union National Bank of Fla. settles suit.	[ { "content": "First Union National Bank of Fla.", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. 1996-08-28	[ { "content": "JACKSONVILLE", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Fla.", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 14 } ]
First Union National Bank of Florida said on Wednesday it agreed to settle a class action law suit involving its collateral protection insurance (CPI) program.	[ { "content": "First Union National Bank of Florida", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "CPI", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 146 } ]
To provide for the settlements, First Union has established a common fund of $4.7 million for cash refunds and $19.4 million in credit refunds for outstanding CPI balances.	[ { "content": "First Union", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 32 }, { "content": "CPI", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 159 } ]
The bank is a division of First Union Corp.	[ { "content": "First Union Corp", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 26 } ]
The bank said most of the charges resulted from loan portfolios from banks and thrifts that were acquired in the 1980s.	[]
First Union said it has discontinued CPI as an element of its motor vehicle or boat installment loan contracts.	[ { "content": "First Union", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "CPI", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 37 } ]
As part of the settlement agreement, customers who had CPI placed on loans from January 1, 1986 to September 31, 1996, will receive cash or credit refunds, the bank said.	[ { "content": "CPI", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 55 } ]
Cash refunds will go to those who paid their loans to First Union while credit refunds will go to those who have existing loan balances, the bank said.	[ { "content": "First Union", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 54 } ]
Amoco says in talks over Yemen oil acreage.	[ { "content": "Amoco", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Yemen", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 25 } ]
NEW YORK 1996-08-28	[ { "content": "NEW YORK", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]
Amoco Corp officials said the company is in talks over crude oil production sharing in Yemen, but declined to comment on a published report Amoco had reached preliminary agreement on a block in the Shabwa area.	[ { "content": "Amoco Corp", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Yemen", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 87 }, { "content": "Amoco", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Shabwa", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 198 } ]
" We've been asked (by Yemen) not to comment (on the talks), " said Amoco spokesman Dan Dietsch . "	[ { "content": "Yemen", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 23 }, { "content": "Amoco", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 68 }, { "content": "Dan Dietsch", "label": "PER", "start_index": 84 } ]
We can neither confirm nor deny that report, " he said.	[]
According to Middle East Economic Survey (MEES), Yemen and Amoco signed a " memorandum of understanding " for a production-sharing agreement in Shabwa Block No.	[ { "content": "Middle East Economic Survey", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 13 }, { "content": "MEES", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 42 }, { "content": "Yemen", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 49 }, { "content": "Amoco", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 59 ...
S-1 in the former South Yemen, which united with North Yemen in 1990.	[ { "content": "S-1", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "South Yemen", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 18 }, { "content": "North Yemen", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 49 } ]
According to another Amoco official, the company is not exploring now for oil anywhere in Yemen.	[ { "content": "Amoco", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 21 }, { "content": "Yemen", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 90 } ]
The officials said Amoco was deferring to the Yemeni Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals for any specific comments on the Amoco-Yemen talks.	[ { "content": "Amoco", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 19 }, { "content": "Yemeni", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 46 }, { "content": "Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 53 }, { "content": "Amoco-Yemen", "label": "MISC", "st...
The former Soviet Union was displaced as contractor of the potentially rich Shabwa oilfields once it collapsed in December 1991, according to the International Petroleum Encyclopedia.	[ { "content": "Soviet Union", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 11 }, { "content": "Shabwa", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 76 }, { "content": "International Petroleum Encyclopedia", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 146 } ]
-- Oliver Ludwig, New York Energy Desk +1 212 859 1633	[ { "content": "Oliver Ludwig", "label": "PER", "start_index": 3 }, { "content": "New York Energy Desk", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 18 } ]
Burundi defends military regime to hostile UN.	[ { "content": "Burundi", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "UN", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 43 } ]
Evelyn Leopold	[ { "content": "Evelyn Leopold", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]
UNITED NATIONS 1996-08-28	[ { "content": "UNITED NATIONS", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]
Burundi's ambassador on Wednesday lashed out at economic sanctions imposed by African states and said any thought of an arms embargo would be a windfall for guerrillas fighting his army-run government.	[ { "content": "Burundi", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "African", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 78 } ]
In a lengthy debate on Burundi before the U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Nsanze Terence said the new military government took over to stabilise the country and wanted negotiations under former Tanzanian President Julius Nyrere.	[ { "content": "Burundi", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 23 }, { "content": "U.N. Security Council", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 42 }, { "content": "Nsanze Terence", "label": "PER", "start_index": 76 }, { "content": "Tanzanian", "label": "MISC", "start_in...
Nearly every African member who spoke, as well as most Security Council members, however, were unsympathetic towards the government of President Pierre Buyoya, an army major put in power in a July coup by the Tutsi-run military, which is locked in a guerrilla war with the majority Hutus.	[ { "content": "African", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 13 }, { "content": "Security Council", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 55 }, { "content": "Pierre Buyoya", "label": "PER", "start_index": 145 }, { "content": "Tutsi-run", "label": "MISC", "start_index"...
" These (African) brothers should have been the first to bind the wounds of Burundi, " Terence said of the economic embargo . "	[ { "content": "African", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 9 }, { "content": "Burundi", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 76 }, { "content": "Terence", "label": "PER", "start_index": 87 } ]
Quite the contrary, Burundi has seen economic war declared against it by fellow African people...a gratuitous immolation of the people of Burundi . "	[ { "content": "Burundi", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 20 }, { "content": "African", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 80 }, { "content": "Burundi", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 20 } ]

Dole campaign aides said the candidate was telling young people not to smoke.

[ { "content": "Dole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]

Dole also said he opposed California Proposition 215 which, if approved by voters, would allow the cultivation of marijuana plants for medicinal uses.

[ { "content": "Dole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "California Proposition 215", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 26 } ]

Dole said the initiative would allow marijuana to be used for anything from a headache to an ingrown toenail.

[ { "content": "Dole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]

In an effort to paint the drug issue in non-political terms, Dole said three times during his 20-minute address that illegal drug use was neither a Democratic nor a Republican issue but one that involves all people.

[ { "content": "Dole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 61 }, { "content": "Democratic", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 148 }, { "content": "Republican", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 165 } ]

The anti-drug message is a theme Dole feels has strong voter appeal.

[ { "content": "Dole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 33 } ]

On Sunday near Chicago he accused President Bill Clinton of " raising the white flag " in the war on drugs.

[ { "content": "Chicago", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 15 }, { "content": "Bill Clinton", "label": "PER", "start_index": 44 } ]

A recent survey showed that illegal drug use among 12-17 year-olds had doubled in the past four years.

[]

Dole was flanked by several California Republican politicians including Gov.

[ { "content": "Dole", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "California", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 28 }, { "content": "Republican", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 39 } ]

Pete Wilson, who said local and state governments cannot fight illegal drugs alone.

[ { "content": "Pete Wilson", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]

" We need all the help we can get.

[]

We need to get the kind of help we used to get when Ronald Reagan and George Bush were in the White House, " Wilson said.

[ { "content": "Ronald Reagan", "label": "PER", "start_index": 52 }, { "content": "George Bush", "label": "PER", "start_index": 70 }, { "content": "White House", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 94 }, { "content": "Wilson", "label": "PER", "start_index": 109 ...

BALANCE-Water Dist 1 Johnson Cty, Kan.

[ { "content": "BALANCE-Water Dist 1", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Johnson Cty", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 21 }, { "content": "Kan", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 34 } ]

, at $11 mln.

[]

WATER DISTRICT 1 OF JOHNSON CO.

[ { "content": "WATER DISTRICT 1", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "JOHNSON CO", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 20 } ]

, KS

[ { "content": "KS", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 2 } ]

RE: $45,020,000

[]

WATER REVENUE BONDS

[]

$22,040,000 SER.

[]

1996A

[]

$22,980,000 RFDG, SER.

[]

1996B

[]

MOODY'S: Aa S&P: AA+

[ { "content": "MOODY'S", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "S&P", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 12 } ]

Delivery Date: 09/05/1996 (FIRM)

[]

06/01 12/01

[]

MATURITY SER A SER B SER A SER B

[]

-------------------------------------------------------------

[]

1998 665M 840M 570M

[]

2000 - - 605M

[]

2001 - 70M -

[]

2002 - 895M 600M

[]

2003 705M - 795M

[]

2004 655M 90M 965M

[]

2009 65M - -

[]

2010 60M - 100M

[]

2011 30M - 90M

[]

2012 20M - 35M

[]

TOTAL: 11,450

[]

A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.

[ { "content": "A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]

-- U.S. Municipal Desk, 212-859-1650

[ { "content": "U.S. Municipal Desk", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 3 } ]

CME lumber futures close lower on profit taking.

[ { "content": "CME", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 0 } ]

CHICAGO 1996-08-28

[ { "content": "CHICAGO", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 } ]

Profit taking continued to weigh on CME lumber futures but prices ended only slightly lower as strong cash markets underpinned futures, traders said.

[ { "content": "CME", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 36 } ]

The same pattern of the past few days persisted with futures declining early on the profit taking before firming late.

[]

There was cash-related buying late from people who want to take delivery of the September contract, they said.

[]

Cash sources noted that although the cash market is generally quiet, prices remain firm on demand for prompt delivery wood, they added.

[]

Random Lengths quoted cash spruce at $419 per tbf, up $5 from last Friday and $7 over the last midweek quote.

[]

Reduced concern over Hurricane Edouard prompted some of the early profit taking.

[ { "content": "Edouard", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 31 } ]

Expectations the storm would turn more to the north partly eased concerns, they said.

[]

Lumber closed $2.20 to $0.20 per tbf lower with September off $0.70 at $413.20 and November off most at $369.00 per tbf.

[]

-- Jerry Bieszk 312-408-8725

[ { "content": "Jerry Bieszk", "label": "PER", "start_index": 3 } ]

WHEAT--Rains boost U.S. HRW planting prospects.

[ { "content": "U.S.", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 19 } ]

Greg Frost

[ { "content": "Greg Frost", "label": "PER", "start_index": 0 } ]

KANSAS CITY, Mo.

[ { "content": "KANSAS CITY", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 0 }, { "content": "Mo", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 13 } ]

1996-08-28

[]

Above-normal summer rainfall in the U.S. High Plains has produced near-ideal conditions for planting the 1997 hard red winter wheat crop, analysts said Wednesday.

[ { "content": "U.S.", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 36 }, { "content": "High Plains", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 41 } ]

From central Texas north to Kansas, rains throughout July and August have relieved most of the drought conditions that plagued the region earlier this year.

[ { "content": "Texas", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 13 }, { "content": "Kansas", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 28 } ]

" Our moisture situation is excellent, especially for fall planting of winter wheat, " said Kim Anderson, extension wheat marketing economist at Oklahoma State University.

[ { "content": "Kim Anderson", "label": "PER", "start_index": 92 }, { "content": "Oklahoma State University", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 145 } ]

The irony of the above-average summer rainfall was not lost on High Plains wheat producers, who only three months ago were caught in a drought so severe that old-timers likened conditions to the " Dust Bowl " days of the 1930s.

[ { "content": "High Plains", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 63 }, { "content": "Dust Bowl", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 197 } ]

" It's definitely a turnabout from this past year, but you know last year we had pretty good moisture about this time of year, and then about October 1 it quit, " said Mark Hodges, executive director of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission . "

[ { "content": "Mark Hodges", "label": "PER", "start_index": 168 }, { "content": "Oklahoma Wheat Commission", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 207 } ]

Hopefully that's not going to happen this year . "

[]

According to figures released by the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, an average of 20.19 inches fell across the state between March 1 and August 26, 1996.

[ { "content": "Oklahoma Climatological Survey", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 37 } ]

That's about 1/2 inch above the average for the same time period, according to Howard Johnson, associate state climatologist at the University of Oklahoma.

[ { "content": "Howard Johnson", "label": "PER", "start_index": 79 }, { "content": "University of Oklahoma", "label": "ORG", "start_index": 132 } ]

He noted that the majority of that 20.19 inches had fallen since July.

[]

As an example of just how dry it was, data showed that between October 1, 1995 and March 1, 1996, the state received an average of only 4.6 inches of rainfall.

[]

In northern Texas, the current rainfall situation was similar to most of Oklahoma, said Rodney Mosier, executive assistant for the Texas Wheat Producers.

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" Up here in the Texas Panhandle, we've had some extremely beneficial rains that came through within the last several days and are really setting us up for ideal conditions for planting wheat, " Mosier said.

[ { "content": "Texas Panhandle", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 17 }, { "content": "Mosier", "label": "PER", "start_index": 195 } ]

But he warned that the situation was not as ideal in central and southern Texas, where mositure levels were still short despite the rains brought by Hurricane Dolly last week.

[ { "content": "Texas", "label": "LOC", "start_index": 74 }, { "content": "Dolly", "label": "MISC", "start_index": 159 } ]

In Kansas, typically the number one U.S. hard red winter wheat producer, topsoil moisture levels were rated mostly adequate during the week ended Sunday, according to the state's agricultural statistics service.

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In its weekly report released Monday, the service said Kansas topsoil moisture was rated eight percent surplus, 77 percent adequate and 15 percent short to very short.

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Oklahoma's Agricultural Statistics Service showed similar conditions, rating topsoil moisture levels as seven percent surplus, 81 percent adequate and 12 percent short to very short.

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Data on topsoil moisture ratings were not released by the Texas Agricultural Statistics Service.

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-- Greg Frost, 816 561-8671

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First Union National Bank of Fla. settles suit.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. 1996-08-28

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First Union National Bank of Florida said on Wednesday it agreed to settle a class action law suit involving its collateral protection insurance (CPI) program.

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To provide for the settlements, First Union has established a common fund of $4.7 million for cash refunds and $19.4 million in credit refunds for outstanding CPI balances.

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The bank is a division of First Union Corp.

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The bank said most of the charges resulted from loan portfolios from banks and thrifts that were acquired in the 1980s.

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First Union said it has discontinued CPI as an element of its motor vehicle or boat installment loan contracts.

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As part of the settlement agreement, customers who had CPI placed on loans from January 1, 1986 to September 31, 1996, will receive cash or credit refunds, the bank said.

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Cash refunds will go to those who paid their loans to First Union while credit refunds will go to those who have existing loan balances, the bank said.

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Amoco says in talks over Yemen oil acreage.

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NEW YORK 1996-08-28

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Amoco Corp officials said the company is in talks over crude oil production sharing in Yemen, but declined to comment on a published report Amoco had reached preliminary agreement on a block in the Shabwa area.

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" We've been asked (by Yemen) not to comment (on the talks), " said Amoco spokesman Dan Dietsch . "

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We can neither confirm nor deny that report, " he said.

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According to Middle East Economic Survey (MEES), Yemen and Amoco signed a " memorandum of understanding " for a production-sharing agreement in Shabwa Block No.

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S-1 in the former South Yemen, which united with North Yemen in 1990.

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According to another Amoco official, the company is not exploring now for oil anywhere in Yemen.

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The officials said Amoco was deferring to the Yemeni Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals for any specific comments on the Amoco-Yemen talks.

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The former Soviet Union was displaced as contractor of the potentially rich Shabwa oilfields once it collapsed in December 1991, according to the International Petroleum Encyclopedia.

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-- Oliver Ludwig, New York Energy Desk +1 212 859 1633

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Burundi defends military regime to hostile UN.

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Evelyn Leopold

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UNITED NATIONS 1996-08-28

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Burundi's ambassador on Wednesday lashed out at economic sanctions imposed by African states and said any thought of an arms embargo would be a windfall for guerrillas fighting his army-run government.

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In a lengthy debate on Burundi before the U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Nsanze Terence said the new military government took over to stabilise the country and wanted negotiations under former Tanzanian President Julius Nyrere.

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Nearly every African member who spoke, as well as most Security Council members, however, were unsympathetic towards the government of President Pierre Buyoya, an army major put in power in a July coup by the Tutsi-run military, which is locked in a guerrilla war with the majority Hutus.

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" These (African) brothers should have been the first to bind the wounds of Burundi, " Terence said of the economic embargo . "

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Quite the contrary, Burundi has seen economic war declared against it by fellow African people...a gratuitous immolation of the people of Burundi . "

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