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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1998
Page
3
Washington report shows 11.4 percent of youths ages 12 to 17 used any illicit drug in the past month, up from 9 percent in 1996, with marijuana the drug of choice at 9.4 percent. Heroin use stayed at 0.2 percent, while first-time heroin users reached a 1996 high. Health officials urge parental warning about marijuana dangers.
Samuel Bowers, 73, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted of murder and arson in the 1966 firebombing that killed Vernon Dahmer for aiding Black voter registration. The verdict, after long delays, comes as Mississippi notes progress since the civil rights era. Bowers faces a life sentence with possible parole after 10 years.
In Hebron the 63 year old rabbi Shlomo Raanan was stabbed in his bed by an Arab assailant who fled to the Palestinian sector. Israeli troops imposed a curfew on 30 000 Palestinians and sealed off the city as sectarian tensions rose. A clash between settlers and Palestinians followed with rocks and beatings reported.
Southeast warns of Bonnie a strengthening tropical storm likely to become a hurricane by Monday as winds approach 100 mph. Forecasters say the Southeastern coast including North Florida could be hit while Texas faces Charley a separate tropical storm in the Gulf with warnings from Brownsville to High Island.
Zimbabwean troops arrive around Kinshasa airport and Angola masss troops in Cabinda to back President Laurent Kabila. The moves raise fear of a regional war as Mandela hosts cease fire talks amid the ongoing 19 day rebellion.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani pledges to wean city methadone patients from 2000 city hospital users and about 30000 private clinic patients, counseling and job training to replace the opioid substitute. Critics and drug czar Barry McCaffrey warn the move risks relapse and welfare costs.
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