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IOLA REGISTER Thursday, August 1, 2013
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IN FULL SWING Allen County Fair events, competition draw crowds midway through week
Top, contestants show their sheep during the round robin showmanship finals Wednesday afternoon at the Allen County Fair. Above at right, Karlie Stephens takes some time Wednesday afternoon to wash her calf at the Allen County Fair. Above at left, Damaris Kunkler took the stage Wednesday evening for a performance. Full results from fair competition will be in The Register’s results tab Aug. 10.
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Lawmaker U.S. and Pakistan to resume talks pledges scrutiny By DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press
By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A key Republican legislator promised Wednesday that GOP Gov. Sam Brownback’s next appointee to the Kansas Court of Appeals will be thoroughly vetted during a special legislative session even if the appointment comes only days before the Senate begins considering the nomination. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Jeff King dismissed criticism from Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley — that the new judge’s appointment could escape public scrutiny — as “patently absurd.” But Hensley, a Topeka Democrat, was skeptical of the assurances from King, an Independence Republican, and said senators won’t have enough time to examine the nominee’s record. Brownback took applications for a newly created position on the state’s second-highest court until Wednesday, and he has until Aug. 29 to name the new judge. The special session of the Republican-dominated LegislaSee SCRUTINY | Page A4
ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Pakistani counterpart, Sartaj Aziz, said today that the two countries will resume high-level negotiations over security issues. Kerry also said he had invited Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, to come to Washington to meet with President Barack Obama. “I’m pleased to announce that today, very quickly, we were able to agree to a resumption of the strategic dialogue in order to foster a deeper, broader and more comprehensive partnership between our countries,” Kerry said at a press conference with Aziz in Islamabad. He said the talks will cover “all of the key issues between us, from border management to counterterrorism to promoting U.S. private investment and to Pakistan’s own journey to economic revitalization.” The U.S. and Pakistan launched high-level talks on a wide swath of security and development programs in 2010. But the talks stalled in November 2011 after U.S. airstrikes on a Pakistani post on the Afghan border accidentally killed 24 Pakistani
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soldiers. Even before that, the bilateral relationship was severely damaged by a variety of incidents, including a CIA contractor shooting to death two Pakistanis in the eastern city of Lahore and the covert U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistani town of Abbottabad. The resumption of the strategic dialogue indicates that the relationship between the two countries has John Kerry improved since that low point. But there is still significant tension and mistrust between the two countries, especially regarding U.S. drone strikes and Pakistan’s alleged ties with Taliban militants using its territory to launch cross-border attacks against American troops in Afghanistan. “It is also no secret that along this journey in the last few years we’ve experienced a few differences,” Kerry said. “I think we came here today, both the prime minister and myself, with a comSee TALKS | Page A4
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Iola pitcher Trent Latta, right, is congratulated by assistant coach Bruce Faulhaber after Latta pitched a one-hitter Wednesday for the Post 15 Indians. Details of Iola's 11-1 win over Hays TMP to open the AA American Legion State Tournament are on page B1. 75 Cents
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