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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1999
Page
3
The Teamsters Local 560 in Newark is returned to direct member control after a court trustee is removed. Officials say the union is free of a Mafia influence that harmed pensions and suppressed dissidents.
Jasper Texas jurors convict white supremacist John William King of murdering James Byrd Jr in a brutal drag death. Eleven white jurors and a black foreman vote for lethal injection, the first such white-on-black death sentence in Texas since capital punishment resumed in the 1970s. Byrd family members express grief as King shows defiance and obscenity.
President Clinton will announce a universal system for child safety seat installation, approved by the DOT NHTSA and OMB. The rule standardizes three anchors in rear seats to fit all seats and cars, ending dozens of incompatible designs and improving child protection.
The United Nations Security Council rejected a resolution to extend the Macedonia peacekeeping mission for six months as China vetoed the measure. Beijing cited Kosovo threats and separated ties with Macedonia after its Taiwan relations, though diplomats denied motives linked to Taiwan. The mission, started in 1992, would begin packing up the day after the mandate expires.
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