Poor patients face rising costs at UTMB care
Margarita Gonzalez, a diabetic, struggles to afford laser eye treatment after UTMB tightened county contracts to curb unrecompensed care. She faces $200 upfront charges for February and rising outlays as travel and lodging add to the bill, jeopardizing her sight and access to subsidized services.
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Margarita Gonzalez
Galveston
Gonzalez
University of Texas Medical Branch
UTMB
Margarita
Cameron County
Pope Calls Catholics to Action in Americas Exhortation
Pope John Paul II urged Catholics across the Americas to translate faith into action addressing church shortcomings and Western Hemisphere social ills. In Mexico City at Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica he unveiled a 25 page exhortation outlining a plan for the churches role in economy ecology race politics and civic life. He called for a new springtime of holiness while concluding a 22 hour mass before tens of thousands.
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Steve Kloehn
Chicago Tribune
Mexico City
John Paul II
Americas
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Church of the Americas
Pope Visit Sparks Mexico City Market Flourish
Vendors flooded downtown Mexico City with pope related imagery including images of Pope John Paul II and the Virgin of Guadalupe amid Aztec calendars and Gucci storefronts. A 60 year old vendor named Jose Olivares carried over 50 handmade tablecloths selling for about 200 pesos each, surviving on small daily sales.
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Mexico
Jose Olivares
Olivares
Partisan Debate Dims Clinton Impeachment Trial
The impeachment trial dissolved into partisan debate as lawmakers and lawyers clashed over House prosecutors push to question Monica Lewinsky before witnesses. Senate Republicans planned to send written questions to Clinton, with White House lawyers responding for the president.
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Washington
Clinton
House
Monica Lewinsky
Senate
Majority
Trent Lott
White House
Senate clash over Lewinsky interview looms
In the Senate the fight over the Lewinsky interview intensified as Republicans warned Byrd’s bid to dismiss charges will fail. The 55-45 GOP edge remains well short of the two-thirds needed to convict Clinton. White House Counsel Ruff condemned House prosecutors’ move to involve Independent Counsel Starr and questioned the propriety of the interview setup.
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Lewinsky
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
Clinton
White House
Charles Ruff
House
Kenneth Starr
Ms. Lewinsky
Independent Counsel
Border Ordeal in Mexico After Wrong Turn
Paul Hansen and Tim Prindle set out from Waterloo on January 4 for a fishing trip near Brownsville. A missed turn led them across the border with guns in the vehicle, landing them in a Mexican jail for hours of interrogations. They bribed guards for food and bought bottled water while seeking release.
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Waterloo
Towa
Paul Hansen
Tim Prindle
Texas
Brownsville
Prindle
Kingsville
Hansen
Mexico
Fragmented Classified Text From OCR Scan
A garbled OCR segment from a classifieds page includes scattered words and partial phrases. The readable bits mention names, numbers, and potential listings but lack coherent structure or complete items to identify a specific event or notice.
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