Denver and Seattle Highlight Two Troubled Cities
Gus Schrader notes Denver struggles with the 3.5 billion DIA delays and a failing baggage system while Seattle endures a collapsing Kingdom and no home football venue. He recalls Kingdome failures, workers killed during repairs, and the city watching a costly, repeatedly postponed airport project.
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Charles Dickens
London
Paris
Denver
Seattle
Kingdome
Seahawks
University of Washington
Stapleton
DIA
Colorado Springs
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids Municipal
Murayama weighs WW II reparations during Asia trip
Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama urged special consideration for atomic bomb victims amid visits in Singapore and Malaysia. He said individual wartime compensation is hard to define but atomic victims deserve pensions, while calls for broader reparations face limits. He also laid a wreath in Singapore.
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Singapore
Japan
Tomiichi Murayama
Southeast Asia
Philippines
Murayama
Hiroshima
Malaysia
Mahathir Mohamad
Americans seek Rwanda adoptions amid government limits
Seattle paralegal Jean Seeley considers adopting a Rwandan child as aid agencies report rising interest. Government policy and relief groups caution adoption should be a last resort, with two years seen as a long wait for young children amid mass displacement and trauma.
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Rwanda
Jean Seeley
Seattle
Seeley
Unicef
Nairobi
Cambodia
Europe
Romania
Claude Dusaidi
William Pierce
National Council For Adoption
Washington, D.C
Susan Cox
Holt International Children’s Services
United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees
Hongo
Bukavu
Gazette promotes agriculture with soybean ink and recycling drive
The Gazette highlights farming support by printing with soybean ink and using recycled newsprint. Readers are urged to drop newspapers at City Carton 4250 Sixth St SW or recycle at their nearest location.
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the Gazette
City Carton
Sixth St
Northern Ireland parties press for positive UK response to IRA halt
Leaders John Hume of the SDLP and Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein urged Britain to respond positively if the IRA calls a cease fire. They cited progress toward peace amid talks with the British government as speculation grows over a historic chance to end decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
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Belfast
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Britain
IRA
John Hume
Social Democratic and Labor Party
Gerry Adams
Sinn Fein
Irish Republican Army
Hume
Adams
Albert Reynolds
Hugh Annesley
Republic of Ireland
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Ore
State Department
Cedar Gazette
USPS
Gazette Company
Third Avenue SE
Iowa
U.S
AP News
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Inc
P.O
Douglas Hand
Allen Motor Company
Amana Colonies
Bowman Woods
Cargill
Carmike Cinema
Collins Credit Union
Deborah Trimble
Dds
First Avenue
Plymouth
John Wilson
Quail Creek
Skogman Realty
Smulekoff
Turner Golf Group
University of Iowa Sports Promotion
US Army
Tedar Rapids
Lising
Reynolds
Deborah Lynn Trimble
D.D.S
Marion
Hiawatha
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