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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 17, 1995

Page

5

Awakening from coma seen as a miracle in Greenbrae

Julie Christine believed her son John Martin would die after a car strike left him in a coma. He awoke briefly to tell his mother I love you, a moment doctors call pleasant fortuitous and not rare, with months of rehab ahead and a year for full recovery to determine outcome.

Julie Christine John Martin Marin General Hospital Greenbrae Calif Christine Merrill Nisam Martin Nisam

Mississippi Senate backs plan to abolish slavery

The Mississippi Senate on Thursday approved an amendment to abolish slavery, with the House next to vote. Mississippi has never ratified the 13th Amendment adopted in 1865, partly due to resentment over compensation for freed slaves. Senator Johnnie Walls commented the issue is unlikely to draw broad debate.

Jackson, Miss Mississippi Senate House Mississippi Sen Johnnie Walls

Yeltsin delivers gloomy address to parliament

President Boris Yeltsin delivered a bleak 61 minute speech to a rare joint session of parliament condemning military losses and human rights abuses in Chechnya while insisting Russia must use force to preserve unity. He warned of fascism inflation crime corruption and a weak judiciary as he faced low popularity and calls to resign.

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Simpson did not ask how wife died in call

Los Angeles AP report shows detective Ronald Phillips testifying that O J Simpson did not ask details of Nicole Browns murder during a five minute phone call from Simpson’s home to a Chicago hotel the morning after the slayings. The call lasted about five minutes.

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