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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1998
Page
3
Vice President Al Gore will unveil at the White House that eight Centers of Excellence in Children's Environmental Health Research will receive federal grants. The Iowa University College of Medicine will study rural children's respiratory illnesses.
West Valley City Utah police describe a mother driving the neighborhood seeking her two missing children unaware their bodies were sealed in the car trunk. The officer calls the scene a horror story inside a horror story and says the mother frantically looked for the kids.
Rose Blumkin known as Mrs. B and founder of the Nebraska Furniture Mart died at 104 after years of heart problems and chronic bronchitis. She built the store from a basement sale to a 77 acre complex with 400000 square feet of retail space in Omaha.
CDC researchers analyzed U.S. birth certificates from 1969 to 1995 and found the male to female birth ratio declined from 105.3 to 104.9 per 100. This shift would have yielded about 3,771 additional girls born who would have been boys under the earlier ratio, the August Fertility and Sterility report notes.
Police in riot gear used pepper spray and dogs to subdue melees in downtown Reno during the five day Hot August Nights festival. About 130 arrests followed as officers battled a crowd of up to 1,000 amid traffic jams and property damage.
Miami based report alleges Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles masterminded Havana bombings last summer and planned to kill Fidel Castro during his visit to the Dominican Republic. The scheme involved three men meeting in Guatemala City to smuggle guns and explosives to Santo Domingo.
Nevis voters face a two thirds majority test to secede from St Kitts in a referendum. observers expect a favorable outcome amid calls for unilateral secession and concerns over resource distribution in the federation.
Severe rains sweeping central South Korea caused floods and mudslides leaving seven dead including another American soldier. At Suwon Air Base a U S Army member was killed after likely falling into a flooded ditch during a walk with three others. Two more soldiers died from mud at a camp south of Seoul. Names pending notification.
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