Step Decade or New Names for the Nineties
A Gazette columnist muses on naming the 1990s the Step Decade due to rising blended families and steps in life. He recalls clocks in cars and aging technology, notes rescue costs and possible insurance, and touches on golf stock moves and Israel’s lone golf course.
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Gazette
Snoopy News
Livyveicld
WTCLT
Cedar Rapids
Mount McKinley
Alaska
Jack Nicklaus
Golden Bear
Family Golf
Callaway Golf
U.S. Golf Association
Israel
Caesarea
Deborah
YMCA
United States
Holocaust survivor sues Volkswagen for slave labor abuse
Elly Gross, a Holocaust survivor from New York, is expected to file a class action alleging Volkswagen exploited slave labor by forcing her and others to work at a Hanover factory during World War II. The suit targets other German firms and follows Swiss bank settlements with Holocaust claimants.
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Elly Gross
Auschwitz
Poland
Volkswagen
Gross
Ed Fagan
New York City
Germany
Fagan
Siemens
Krupp
Daimler-Benz
Audi
Wurttembergische Metall Warenfabrik
Heinkel
Eicon Technology
BMW
Leica
Mel Weiss
Derkswagen
Romania
Adalbert Berkovits
Lma Berkovits
Former au pair Louise Woodward debates TV in court
Louise Woodward and lawyer Barry Scheck plan to debate at the Edinburgh International Television Festival on televising trials. Woodward, the first British woman tried on live TV, returned home June 18 after Massachusetts court upheld her involuntary manslaughter conviction in baby Matthew Kappen’s death on February 9, 1997.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Louise Woodward
Woodward
Barry Scheck
Massachusetts
Matthew Kappen
Gazette Promotes Agriculture Soybean Ink Recycling
The Gazette highlights using soybean ink and recycled newsprint to support agriculture. Readers are urged to recycle newspapers at City Carton on Sixth St. SW or at the nearest recycling location.
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City Carton
Sixth St
Ecuador plane crash Kills 79 in Quito Soccer Field Debacle
Investigators recovered the black box as a Tupolev 154 owned by Cubana de Aviacion crashed on takeoff near Quito’s Mariscal Sucre International Airport killing 79 people including five children. At least 10 on the ground died with 21 passengers survived. Survivors blamed crew and authorities for permitting departure after repeated engine trouble.
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Quito
Ecuador
Cubana de Aviacion
Mariscal Sucre
Congo rebels retreat after government advances in Matadi
Government allied troops patrolled Matadi after driving out rebels in a major setback for rebel efforts to oust President Laurent Kabila. Angolan forces seized control with light resistance and joint forces shifted the balance as Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and Namibia aided Kabila. Rwanda accused Congo of training 10,000 rebels at a summit in South Africa.
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Laurent Kabila
Faustin Munene
Kinshasa
Here
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Angola
Kabila
Zimbabwe
Namibia
Rwanda
South Africa
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