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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1998
Page
2
Li Peng outlined sweeping reforms at the National People's Congress urging mergers bankruptcies and capitalist tactics to revive unprofitable state industries and strengthen banks. He warned unemployment would rise and pace would slow if unrest grows.
The House passed a 209 to 208 vote paving the way for Puerto Rico to become America's 51st state after a tense debate. The measure offers a plebiscite with three options and a 10 year transition plan requiring further votes in Congress and on the island. President Clinton called it a democracy move and praised defeating an English language amendment.
President Clinton meets with the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare at the White House ahead of their initial meeting. White House aides say the session is to start the commission’s task of planning reforms to extend elderly health coverage beyond 2010.
The U S government charges 14 US citizens who own or run six firms with illegal online sports betting via telephone lines. Prosecutors say they conspired to allow thousands to bet on professional and college events, mostly from the United States, in a 1961 interstate gambling law violation.
In Cleveland an attorney for Sheppard's son said DNA findings indicate a third person was in Marilyn Sheppard's home when she was slain in 1954. Blood on Sheppard's pants and at the scene did not come from him or his wife, bolstering intruder theory and altering the famed case linked to The Fugitive.
National roundup reports 41,907 fatalities in 1996, a 7 percent rise from six years earlier, with elderly and teenage drivers noted for higher crash rates as the trend continues. Philip Morris chief Geoffrey Bible testifies on past practices amid Minnesota tobacco trial disclosures. A Texas preacher predicts God will descend March 31 in Garland, drawing followers and moving families to the area.
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