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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1996
Page
6
President Boris Yeltsin asks Russians to propose a new national vision to rival the American Dream. Advisers and intellectuals are tasked with ideas, Rossiiskaya Gazeta runs a contest with a $2000 prize and long letters allowed.
In Tulkarem police opened fire on about 400 demonstrators outside the jail to protest inmate mistreatment. One protester, Ibrahim Hadaydeh, was killed and more than a dozen were injured as curfews and reinforcements were imposed amid broader clashes sparked by a detainee’s death.
Four of those sentenced to death were from Hong Kong connected to a Shenzhen trial, while a Mexico desert exercise left 13 soldiers dead and one missing. In Rome, Erich Priebke was rearrested after a court freed him of major charges, triggering protests and official uproar. Baghdad reports Iraq dinar slumps twenty percent amid oil-for-food delays, marking six years since Kuwait’s 1990 invasion and renewed sanctions.
In Mogadishu Somalia following the death of Mohamed Farah Aidid rival leaders say his passing could end five years of civil war. The U.S. led manhunt during the U.N. mission left about 18 Americans and hundreds of Somalis dead in 1993 battles. Aidid reportedly died of a heart attack after surgery for a gunshot wound and was buried in a simple Muslim ceremony. Cease fires announced by rival radio stations and talks among factions were urged as Somalia seeks negotiation.
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