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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1998
Page
3
The Justice Department reports fewer Americans faced crimes in 1997 than in 1996 or 1973, with rape and sexual assaults not declining. Westerners, men, blacks, and younger people were most likely victims in a household survey covering nearly 35 million crimes.
Two of six inmates escaped a maximum security prison outside Nashville after overpowering guards, chaining them to chairs, and taking radios. The escape occurred during Ramadan meal distribution with two inmates recaptured around 11 30 p.m. CST and remaining four at large after using a ladder to scale a 12 foot fence.
In Algiers a crowd of 100 women protest the missing relatives outside the human rights office as Algeria grapples with seven years of insurgency and a 28 percent unemployment rate. Officials acknowledge thousands missing and a legacy of violence while economic reforms unfold.
Megan Jones, a four-year-old from Holly Hill, underwent a six hour double lung transplant at Shands Hospital Gainesville the day after Christmas. She remains in stable condition in the pediatric ICU on a ventilator but is breathing on her own briefly and showing signs of improvement. Doctors estimate an over eighty percent survival chance and describe the first week as the most critical.
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