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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1997
Page
3
Wiese and Bruder were arrested and charged with assault and possession of a police radio used in the August Louima case. Louima, a Haitian immigrant, says he will sue the city for 55 million dollars and an expanded federal probe will consider civil rights violations.
Mir's main computer failed as the cargo ship docked, leaving the aged station with limited power and no working gyroscopes or solar panels. Officials said the risk was not life threatening, and NASA and Russian controllers coordinated a cautious recovery using thrusters to realign toward the sun while batteries recharged.
Eric Brooks of Bloomington, Indiana, the sole black student in UC Berkeley's first law school class since the ban on race and gender preferences, says he has a unique opportunity to improve campus life for minority students. He emphasizes being treated as an individual while aiming to push for change at Boalt Hall this fall. The policy banning preferences marks his first semester under the new rules, amid ongoing court challenges.
Beth Ann Hogan became the first woman to sign the incoming class book at Virginia Military Institute and have her head shaved, joining 30 women and 430 men registering for classes as the Justice Department watches for potential gender-based harassment.
In 1839 Louis Daguerre announced a method to fix images chemically for permanent photographs. In 1934 a German plebiscite granted sole executive power to Adolf Hitler as fuhrer.
Yale researcher Martin Gilens reports national magazines use black individuals in 62 percent of poverty stories while only 29 percent of the poor are black. TV news reflects a 65 percent black portrayal in poverty coverage, though most poor people are white.
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