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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1997
Page
3
President Clinton, 51, spent a family day and attended a private party at Martha's Vineyard hosted by Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson. He expressed happiness and gratitude as he entered a quieter birthday observance than the prior year.
Carl Drega killed Judge Vickie Bunnell and editor Dennis Joos and two state troopers during a three hour rampage across New Hampshire and into Vermont. The 67 year old shot residents at a grocery and a newspaper office before police killed him near Stratford. Several others were wounded as the spree crossed state lines.
The ELCA delegates voted 958 to 25 to declare Catholics and Lutherans share salvation by grace, rejecting 16th century condemnations. They endorsed plans to share ministry with Episcopal Church but failed by six votes to approve a similar unity plan. a two year discussion process was adopted for 1999.
A 32 minute video shows guards kicking inmates in the groin slicing dogs and shocking them with a stun gun prompting an FBI civil rights probe. The footage, made for training, led Missouri to end its contract housing 415 inmates in Brazoria County Detention Center Angleton. The incident occurred Sept. 18 1996 and is under FBI review.
Declassified NSA documents show Fidel Castro, alarmed by Kennedy's assassination, mobilized armed forces and spoke on Cuban TV. Officials feared U S retaliation and Madrid-style blame on Cuba. The files also note Oswald's ties to pro Castro groups and insinuations of CIA or FBI links.
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